| April 14, 2008 | - In the Indian city of Bhubaneshwar, Biranchi Das, former coach of six-year-old marathon runner Budhia Singh, was shot dead after a dispute with a gangster over a small-time actress.
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NDTV.com
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| April 8, 2008 | - Villagers in northern India began worshipping a newborn girl with two faces as the reincarnation of Durga, Hindu goddess of valor. “She drinks milk from her two mouths,” said a hospital director, “and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time.”
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AP via Breitbart
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| January 31, 2008 | - Police in India uncovered a kidney-napping ring that preyed upon impoverished laborers, farmers, and rickshaw drivers. “I had no idea about kidney transplants,” said Shakeel Ahmed, a laborer from Uttar Pradesh state. “I knew that these people meant to do evil to me. When I woke up, a doctor said I would be shot if I ever told anyone what happened.”
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Kidney Thefts Shock India
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| December 16, 2007 | - Nearly 300 inmates, most of them communists, escaped from a prison in India.
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BBC News
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| October 30, 2007 | - Fourteen children were rescued from a New Delhi sweatshop that was subcontracted by The Gap.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 30, 2007 | -
India's Khasi tribespeople announced that they would honor Al Gore's cinematic excellence at a “People's Parliament” held in a sacred forest.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 10, 2007 | - In India police killed a protester at a riot of flood victims, and the monsoon death toll climbed above 2,000, with many of the fatalities blamed on snakebites. “Everyone is crammed in together,” said an expert, “and the chances of running into snakes, stepping on them, grabbing them, and sleeping on them is much, much more.”
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Washington Post
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IHT
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| July 31, 2007 | - In India, where dung-smoke clouds were warming the upper atmosphere, more than 1,000 people had been killed in recent floods, and Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to six years of “rigorous imprisonment” for possession of illegal firearms. “Don't get perturbed,” the judge told Dutt, “for you have many years to go and work like the 'Mackenna's Gold' actor Gregory Peck.”
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BBC
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Mumbai Mirror
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Mumbai Mirror
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BBC
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ABC News (Australia)
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The Hindu
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| July 21, 2007 | -
India's parliament elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president.
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The Washington Post
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| July 5, 2007 | - In India, where ten million female infants have been killed in the last 20 years, a farmer rescued a two-day-old girl after finding her hand sticking out of the soil of his field.
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BBCnews.com
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| May 30, 2007 | -
China and India were preparing to race to the moon.
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Financial Times
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| May 30, 2007 | - A judge in New Delhi ruled that government-employed air hostesses had to lose weight. “If by perseverance, the snail could reach the Ark,” said Justice Rekha Sharma, “why can't these worthy ladies stand on and turn the scale”; farther south, in Agra, a mob of lawyers stripped a low-caste youth, tied him to a tree, shaved his head, spat on his face, and beat him. “No one,” said Bar Council of India Vice President Rajendra Raghuvanshi, “can take law in their hands.”
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BBC
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Times of India
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| May 22, 2007 | - Battalions of macaques were attacking the houses of Indian congressmen. “In the name of protection of monkeys,” said an activist, “we cannot afford to be silent spectator to this perennial problem.”
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Mumbai Mirror
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| April 30, 2007 | - Guests at a wedding in Patna, India, decided that the groom had arrived too drunk and had the bride marry his brother instead.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 30, 2007 | - A farmer in eastern India beheaded one of his workers with a sword for failing to milk his cows.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 16, 2007 | - Angry crowds in India were burning Richard Gere in effigy.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
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| April 11, 2007 | - The Indian civil service announced (and then revoked) new rules mandating female employees to provide details of their menstrual cycles.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 3, 2007 | - The market price for children in India slipped below that of buffalo.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 1, 2007 | - A rambunctious elephant in Sasthamcotta, India, killed its second mahout, Podimon of Modioozhathil, who died on the way to a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
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newindpress.com
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| April 1, 2007 | - Police in Bhiwandi registered a complaint after a hill, with an estimated street value of $5.5 million, was reported stolen.
| Source:
Mumbai Mirror
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| March 30, 2007 | - In the Indian state of Gujarat, an unemployed man from Tooting, England, had found new work as Bahucharaji, the patron goddess of eunuchs.
| Source:
Ananova
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| March 3, 2007 | - An Indian
numerologist forecast that Hillary Clinton would win the 2008 election because her birth number is eight; he claimed he had also correctly predicted Princess Diana's death, Bush's election, and that America would lose the Iraq war.
| Source:
Asian Tribune
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| February 18, 2007 | - In central India, police launched an investigation after discovering a plastic bag stuffed with the skeletal remains of at least six newborns on the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital.
| Source:
CNN
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| February 18, 2007 | - The Indian government described plans for a countrywide network of cradles where parents can abandon unwanted baby girls.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Maoist rebels were taking over coffee plantations near Ooty, India.
| Source:
andhracafe.com
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| February 1, 2007 | -
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan was awarded France's highest civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur, and was kicked in the head by a camel.
| Source 1:
AP via CHINAdaily
Source 2:
Reuters via iol.co.za
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| January 29, 2007 | - The Indian
Army was preparing to hunt down man-eating leopards in Kashmir.
| Source:
Mumbai Mirror
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| January 16, 2007 | - Female tsunami survivors in India were selling their kidneys.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| January 11, 2007 | - Under the influence of truth drugs, an Indian butler accused of serial murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism told police that the first time he tried to eat one of his victim's organs (the liver of a four-year-old girl), it made him vomit.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| December 8, 2006 | - A study found that standard-sized condoms were too large for the men of India.
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Slate
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| November 29, 2006 | - A herd of domesticated pigs attacked and ate a three-year-old boy in Delhi, India.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 26, 2006 | - The dancing bears of India were in dire need of medical attention.
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People.co.uk
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| November 23, 2006 | - Rhesus macaque overpopulation in Delhi was causing extreme environmental stress. “The problem of man-monkey conflict,” said an environmentalist (who argued against building more monkey prisons) “is only going to increase.”
| Source:
Financial Times Deutschland
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| November 21, 2006 | -
Indian officials announced that they would establish seven vulture havens in order to relieve shortages at the Towers of Silence, where Zoroastrians leave their dead to be eaten.
| Source:
Mumbai Mirror
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| November 10, 2006 | - Fifty performances of “Saddam at the Gallows,” a new play due to open in Kolkata, India, had already sold out.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 9, 2006 | - In Patna, India, twenty eunuchs were hired to sing, beat drums, and collect municipal taxes.
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MSNBC
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| November 1, 2006 | - Bangalore, the high-tech capital of India, renamed itself “Bengalooru,” to more closely resemble the city's medieval name, “Bendakalooru,” or “town of boiled beans.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 11, 2006 | - In Bombay, where the city courts faced a backlog of 16,234,223 cases, police arrested a drunk three-foot-tall man for extorting money from people with a meat cleaver. “Everyone pampered him because he was so small and cute,” said the man's brother. “But he has brought great misfortune for the family.”
| Source 1:
Mumbai Mirror
Source 2:
Mumbai Mirror
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| October 11, 2006 | -
India's Supreme Court ordered the seizure of 300 macaques who had terrorized bureaucrats and destroyed top-secret defense documents.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 10, 2006 | - Thousands of villagers in the Indian state of Jharkhand fled their homes in order to avoid a herd of rampaging elephants. “The elephants,” said a forestry official, “are out to avenge.” “They destroy our crops in the field,” complained a farmer. “Sometimes they damage our houses also.”
| Source 1:
Reuters
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ANI via DailyIndia.com
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| September 20, 2006 | - Hybrid lions were dying from a mystery disease in northern India.
| Source:
The Drudge Report
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| September 13, 2006 | -
Scientists in India announced that they had discovered a new species of bird.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 30, 2006 | -
Indian
doctors were attempting to treat a girl who weeps tears of stone.
| Source:
Times of India
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| August 29, 2006 | - Researchers warned that countries with unnaturally high male-to-female population ratios, such as China and India, could foster violence, organized crime, and terrorism.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 29, 2006 | - In the Indian state of Bihar, high-caste landowners were raping and gouging out the eyes of low-caste residents.
| Source 1:
India eNews
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Hindustan Times
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| August 10, 2006 | -
Doctors in India speculated that the birth of a one-eyed girl might be attributable to her mother's exposure to Cyclopamine, a cancer drug derived from wild corn lily that causes cyclopia in sheep.
| Source:
Wired News
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| August 8, 2006 | -
Coke and Pepsi were banned in the state of Kerala, India, because of their high levels of pesticide residue.
| Source:
MSN.co.in
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| August 2, 2006 | - In New Delhi, the commuter rail authority was using a black-faced langur monkey to frighten other monkeys.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 30, 2006 | -
Doctors in India removed a 15-year-old dead fetus from a woman's womb.
| Source:
Times of India
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| July 25, 2006 | -
fish fell from the sky in Manna, India.
| Source:
Mail&Guardian
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| July 19, 2006 | -
India was gagging blogs.
| Source:
The Hindu
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| July 13, 2006 | - In Chennai, India, more than a ton of camel meat from Dubai was destroyed at an airport after no one claimed it.
| Source:
News Today Net
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| July 10, 2006 | -
India tested its long-range nuclear-capable
ballistic missile, the Agni-III, in the Bay of Bengal. The test failed.
| Source 1:
San Francisco Chronicle
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Guardian
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| July 6, 2006 | - It was reported that Melinda Gates is more comfortable than her husband Bill when it comes to holding AIDS babies in Africa or talking to male prostitutes in India.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 1, 2006 | - In Rajasthan, India, a low-caste bridegroom on a horse was stoned by onlookers when a camel in his wedding procession ran amok.
| Source:
Hindustan Times
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| June 18, 2006 | - In India an autopsy determined that the rogue elephant known as Master Killer died from multiple organ failure. “I had lost my two children,” said the elephant's distraught trainer. “But when I discovered this naughty tusker . . . I thought, 'Here's a newborn that will help me forget my own loss.'”
| Source:
The Peninsula
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| June 17, 2006 | - In Thiruvananthapuram, India, the recently captured rogue elephant Master Killer died in a cage.
| Source:
The Hindu
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| June 4, 2006 | - Monsoon storms killed more than 40 people in and around Bombay.
| Source:
Daily Times
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| June 2, 2006 | - Officials in south India said that they had captured an alcohol-abusing, homicidal rogue elephant named Master Killer.
| Source 1:
New Kerala
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The Peninsula
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| June 2, 2006 | - A woman married a cobra in the Indian state of Orissa. “Though snakes cannot speak or understand,” said the bride, “we communicate in a peculiar way.”
| Source:
Breitbart
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| May 20, 2006 | - Thousands of people protested against affirmative action in New Delhi.
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MediaCorp News
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| April 18, 2006 | - Over 20 years after a gas leak at the Bhopal chemical plant killed thousands of people, India agreed to fund a cleanup of the site.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| March 23, 2006 | - A tortoise named Adwaita died in India from complications brought on by a cracked shell; he was between 150 and 250 years old.
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BBC News
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| March 5, 2006 | - A physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India, speculated that the "red rain" that fell in the Kerala district of western India in 2001 was filled with extraterrestrial, bacteria-like material from a passing comet.
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The Guardian
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| March 3, 2006 | -
Laura Bush counted to five on Indian children's TV. "She loved Boombah," said an official from a television studio, "the giant, cuddly, Punjabi-rapping lion."
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Express India
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| March 1, 2006 | -
President Bush, after a brief stop in Afghanistan, visited India, where he was met by 100,000 protesters in New Delhi; he promised to provide India with nuclear fuel and expertise.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
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CNN.com
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| March 1, 2006 | - At least 65 dogs in the President's security detail were put up at a five-star hotel in New Delhi; hotel staff were told to address the dogs as "sergeant" or "major."
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New Kerala
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| February 22, 2006 | -
India, seeking to contain an outbreak of bird flu, sealed off a town and 19 surrounding villages.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 18, 2006 | - Another person died from bird
flu in Iraq. The flu was also found in poultry in Germany, France, and Egypt, and 50,000 chickens died from the disease in India.
| Source 1:
Bloomberg News
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People's Daily Online
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BBC News
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China View
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News
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Al Jazeera
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BBC News
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Channel 4
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ReviewJournal.com
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CBC News
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Al Jazeera
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ABC News Online
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Bloomberg News
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| January 15, 2006 | - There was a shortage of women in India, possibly due to endemic female feticide; as a result, women can cost up to $136 each or more.
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The Toronto Star
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| November 25, 2005 | - Seventy-seven people died in India when two passenger buses were swept away by floods.
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BBC News
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| November 14, 2005 | - In Chhattisgarh, India, a three-day-old baby died from an infection when her parents were unable to afford surgery. The baby had been born with her heart in her hand.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| October 29, 2005 | - In Andhra Pradesh, India, floods washed away sections of railway track, subsequently causing a derailment that killed at least 100 people.
| Source:
CBC News
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| October 3, 2005 | - Sixteen people were killed by a train crash in Madhya Pradesh, India.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 24, 2005 | - In India a 12-year-old girl killed herself after her mother told her that she could not afford to give her a single rupee for lunch.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 9, 2005 | - A woman in India was freed from the outhouse where she had been confined for more than 25 years.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 6, 2005 | -
Encephalitis had killed at least 600 people in India.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 7, 2005 | - The United States sentenced a South African man to three years in jail for smuggling nuclear bomb parts to Pakistan and India.
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IOL.co.za
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| July 29, 2005 | - Monsoons in India killed at least eight hundred people and scattered the carcasses of seventeen thousand goats around Bombay.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 1, 2005 | -
Scientists in India warned that the Himalayan glacier that feeds the Ganges River would probably melt before the end of this century.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 22, 2005 | - In India a fourteen-year-old girl was granted an annulment of her two-year marriage.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 13, 2005 | - In New Delhi, India, children and adults carrying both lit candles and hydrogen-filled balloons marched to mark the World Day Against Child Labor. At least twenty-five people were subsequently hospitalized for exploding-balloon-related burns.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 6, 2005 | - An outbreak of meningitis in India killed fifteen.
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BBC News
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| May 6, 2005 | - A seventeen-year-old woman was thrown out of her village in India after her stomach swelled up; villagers believed she was carrying the “devil's child,” but the swelling turned out to be a 33-pound tumor the size of five fetuses.
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News24.com
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| April 27, 2005 | - A mob in India lynched and beheaded two women for witchcraft.
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The Courier-Mail
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| April 25, 2005 | - An American businessman spent $802,600 over the Internet to buy a house in India; when he arrived in New Delhi, he found that the house he was promised was actually the Prime Minister's residence.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 11, 2005 | - As pilgrims washed away their sins in India's sacred Narmada River, a dam was opened upstream, releasing a wall of water that drowned fifty-two people.
| Source:
ABC News
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| March 26, 2005 | - The United States approved the sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, upsetting India. The United States was also planning to sell fighter jets to India.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 21, 2005 | - A woman in India committed suicide so that her two blind sons could each receive one of her eyes. Doctors said there was little chance that such a transplant would work.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 12, 2005 | - In India, several hundred people reenacted Gandhi's 1930 twenty-four-day march to the Arabian Sea to make salt. Nearly half of India's cabinet marched, although many returned to their hotels after walking a short distance.
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BBC News
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| February 20, 2005 | - Six Indian students killed themselves because they were anxious over their upcoming board exams.
| Source:
The Times of India
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| February 18, 2005 | - Archeologists were excavating an ancient Indian city uncovered by the December tsunami.
| Source:
AP
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| January 26, 2005 | - More than 250 people were trampled or burned to death during a Hindu festival in western India when a stampeding riot was triggered by pilgrims slipping on spilled coconut milk.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 20, 2005 | - A poll of thousands of people in 21 countries revealed that just 26 percent consider Bush a positive global force. Three quarters of respondents in France and Germany and 64 percent of Britons felt that U.S. actions would have a negative impact on the world, and for the first time it appeared that an international dislike of Bush is metamorphosing into a dislike of Americans in general. The three countries that approved of Bush's reelection were the Philippines, Poland, and India.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| January 12, 2005 | - In India, men were calling tsunami relief help lines, offering to marry women who lost their husbands in the recent disaster. “I have no caste barriers, and my parents are very supportive of my decision,” said one caller.
| Source:
Times of India
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| December 29, 2004 | - and a bad batch of homemade alcohol killed 37 people in India.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 29, 2004 | - Peace talks between India and Pakistan went nowhere.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
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New York Timesimes
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Wikipedia
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New York Timesimes
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MSNBC
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Reuters
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| December 23, 2004 | - A man in Calcutta was killed when his co-workers at a rubber factory playfully inserted the tube of an air pump into his anus.
| Source:
Telegraph India
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| November 6, 2004 | -
Farmers in India were reportedly spraying their cotton and chili fields with Coca-Cola because it's cheaper than pesticides and kills pests just as effectively.
| Source:
Ananova
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| October 21, 2004 | - The state government of Utar Pradesh in India was investigating reports that the Taj Mahal is leaning.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 3, 2004 | - Twenty-six people were killed by separatist bombs in the Indian state of Nagaland.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 20, 2004 | - A Hindu ascetic was busy rolling his way 800 miles from India to Pakistan to promote world peace.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| May 20, 2004 | - Manmohan Singh was sworn in as India's first non-Hindu prime minister.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 14, 2004 | - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India resigned after his Hindu nationalist party lost in parliamentary elections; the Indian National Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi, won a plurality and was expected to form a coalition government. Gandhi was expected to become the first foreign-born Indian premier.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 12, 2004 | - Twenty-one poor Indian women died in a stampede to collect free saris.
| Source:
Times of India
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| March 25, 2004 | -
India defeated Pakistan in a cricket tournament.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 21, 2004 | -
India was somewhat offended that the United States designated Pakistan as a "major non-Nato ally."
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 22, 2004 | - An Indian diamond seller who had hidden $900 worth of small diamonds in a pile of hay was busy feeding laxatives to his cow.
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 26, 2003 | -
India's prime minister expressed support for building a Hindu temple on the site of a sixteenth-century mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu officials eight years ago, resulting in riots and killing. Hindus believe that Ram, a deity, was born there.
| |
| November 2, 2003 | - A horde of rhesus macaques was tormenting workers in New Delhi.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 2, 2003 | - The World Meteorological Organization said that the extreme weather conditions observed this spring across the globe (very high temperatures in parts of Europe, 562 tornadoes in one month in the United States, a heat wave in India that killed at least 1,400 people) were strong evidence that global climate change is happening now and that the number of such extreme weather events can be expected to increase.
| Source:
WMO Press Release
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| June 29, 2003 | - Five pairs of donkeys were married in India in an attempt to make the rains come.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| June 19, 2003 | - A nine-year-old girl in an Indian village married a dog to avoid a bad omen.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 9, 2003 | - Asthma patients descended on Hyderabad, India, in order to swallow live fish that were stuffed with an herbal paste.
| Source:
ABC.net.au
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| December 10, 2002 | -
McDonald's restaurants in Indonesia and India were blown up, and four movie theaters filled with families celebrating the end of Ramadan exploded simultaneously in Bangladesh, killing at least 17 and wounding hundreds.
| |
| December 25, 2001 | -
India recalled its ambassador to Pakistan and threatened to go to war if Pakistan did not stop sponsoring terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad, which attacked India's parliament building last week.
| |
| December 18, 2001 | - A gynecologist in India successfully performed 68 hysterectomies within 24 hours.
| |
| December 11, 2001 | - Vigilante women in Pune, India, who called themselves the Bangle Army, were attacking bootleg alcohol vendors with rolling pins.
| |
| December 11, 2001 | - George Harrison's ashes were sprinkled on the Ganges River in India.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | -
Schoolchildren in India
voted overwhelmingly to name a white tiger cub in the Lucknow Zoo Osama bin Laden; Hitler was another popular choice.
| |
| November 13, 2001 | - The government of Uttar Pradesh, India, was encouraging people to use cow's urine to cure diabetes and heart disease.
| |
| November 6, 2001 | - Pabst Blue Ribbon put up billboards in Tibet with the following text written in Chinese and Tibetan: “Pabst Blue Ribbon celebrates the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet.” One of the billboards stands across the street from the traditional winter residence of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile in India since he fled the Chinese occupation in 1959.
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| October 9, 2001 | - A crowded airliner sat on a runway in India for three hours because pilots believed there were hijackers in the passenger cabin; passengers believed hijackers were in the cockpit.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - Some people in India were using cow urine to cure indigestion and skin cancer.
| |
| October 2, 2001 | - In an attempt to address an alarming 15-20 percent condom failure rate, India's health officials announced a project to determine the true dimensions of the Indian penis.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | -
India decided to subsidize televisions for poor people in the hope that increased viewing would cut down on sex and thus the swelling population.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | - A stray leopard injured nine people in eastern India.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
India closed 15 shelters in Erwadi, where crazy people were kept near a Muslim shrine, presumably hoping for some kind of miracle; 27 were killed recently in a fire because they were chained to poles.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - Some British and Indian
scientists claimed that they had positively identified alien bacteria entering Earth's upper atmosphere from space, which would tend, they said, to confirm the Panspermia theory of life's origin.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | - Weavers in India were using condoms to speed up the process of weaving silk saris: “It is the fine quality lubricant on the condom,” said one weaver, “that does the wonder trick of speeding up the spin of the bobbin while preventing frequent snapping of the yarn.” Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's anti-cockfighting bill was approved.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Indian nationalists in Bombay were protesting the name of President Bush's cat, India. “Mr. President, don't make a mistake,” read the posters. “Indians are lions, not cats.”
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Researchers in Calcutta, India, found that squatting while defecating can increase the risk of stroke.
| |
| June 5, 2001 | - An Indian man, diagnosed with a hernia after suffering unexplained pains for years, turned out to have a fully developed female reproductive system: fallopian tubes, ovaries, and a uterus.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Police were searching for a “monkey man” in Delhi, India, who was terrorizing people; he was said to have brass gloves, long, poisoned iron claws, iron boots, a helmet, and a black bodysuit. Several people died fleeing the monkey man, including one who jumped from a roof.
| |
| March 20, 2001 | - The head of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party was forced to resign after Internet journalists posing as arms dealers videotaped him accepting a bribe.
| |
| March 13, 2001 | - Over a hundred eunuchs traveled to Bhopal, India, to compete in the Ms. World 2001 contest.
| |
| March 6, 2001 | -
Indian vultures were dying out, complicating the rituals of Bombay's Zoroastrians, who still follow the ancient ways and lay out their dead to be eaten in an ancient stone amphitheater called the Tower of Silence.
| |
| February 20, 2001 | - Hindu extremists ran amok in India to protest Valentine's Day, which they said undermines Indian culture.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
India's minister of external affairs visited Burma and inaugurated the Myanmar-India Friendship Center for Remote Sensing and Data Processing.
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| January 16, 2001 | - Millions of Hindus jumped into the Ganges River to wash away their sins; 65 million were expected to do so during the 43-day festival of Kumbh Mela.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
India banned beauty contests; the most recent Miss World and Miss Universe pageants both were won by Indians.
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| November 28, 2000 | - Workers rioted in New Delhi to protest a decision by India's supreme court ordering the closure of 90,000 small factories that pollute air and water and sicken the populace.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Veerappan, the famous Indian bandit, finally released Rajkumar, the famous Indian actor, whom many Indians worship as a god, after holding him captive for 109 days.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Shobha Guruputrayya Sutturmath, a 14-year-old girl in the Indian village of Maradur, was attracting attention for her ability to cry stones; doctors concluded that Shobha was slipping small stones under her eyelids, which then fell out to the amazement of all.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Kashmir's chief minister Farooq Abdullah gave a loud, rousing speech on India's
Independence Day to an empty sports arena in Srinagar; the deputy inspector of the state police said that people stayed away because they were afraid to die.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Negotiations continued with Veerappan, the South Asian bandit, concerning the release of Rajkumar, an actor who is worshipped by many in India as a minor god; Veerappan has demanded political concessions on behalf of India's Tamil minority.
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| August 8, 2000 | - Political massacres continued in India, as did heavy rains, which led to the displacement of 2.5 million people.
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| January 23, 2000 | - Police in Malda, India, were battling avian flu by conducting a poultry massacre. “We have planned to collect 'backyard chickens' from the houses in the evening and kill all of them late at night,” said the district's deputy director of animal-resources development, N. K. Shit.
| Source:
The Hindu
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