104 Dead, 150 Injured After Train Derails In India

Story out of Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh:

At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police said.

Daljeet Chaudhary, a director general of police, said the death toll was likely to rise because rescue workers had yet to gain access to one of the worst-damaged coaches. About 150 people were injured, he said.

The train derailed at around 3:10 a.m., jolting awake passengers who had settled in for the long trip. The bodies were retrieved from mangled coaches that had fallen on their side.

Rescue workers, soldiers and members of India’s disaster management force pulled 104 bodies from the wreckage, said Chaudhary, inspector-general of police in Uttar Pradesh state.

Rescuers used cutting torches to open the derailed train cars to try to reach those trapped inside, while cranes were deployed to lift the coaches from the tracks. However, they were moving cautiously because some of the coaches were precariously tilted, and there was a danger of the coach toppling over, possibly injuring those trapped inside.

In 2012, an Indian government report said about 15,000 people are killed every year in train accidents, caused mainly by outdated equipment and overstretched staff. Cont.

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"Smog Selfies" - India Declares Emergency Situation Over Polluted Air

Their air is also part fecal, enjoy your lunch.

Story out of New Delhi, India:

The Indian government declared an "emergency situation" in New Delhi on Sunday as air pollution hit dangerous new highs — and residents have the selfies to prove it.

Officials announced a slew of measures to combat toxic smog in the capital city, including halting construction projects, canceling school, closing a coal-fired power plant for 10 days and dousing the dusty roads with water.

City dwellers, meanwhile, took "smog selfies" as they strolled through air so dirty you can taste and smell it.

Other selfie snappers joined hundreds of protesters in downtown New Delhi to demand the government address the deadly smog. Cont.

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“Trump’s Victory Is Confirmed" - Indian Group Throws Celebration After Declaring Trump President

Story out of New Delhi, India:

An Indian fringe group on Friday celebrated the “victory” of U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump, hailing his friendship with diaspora Indians and backing his call to ban immigration by Muslims from countries hit by Islamic militancy.

With drums banging and speakers blaring, the Hindu Sena, or Hindu Army, gathered at Jantar Mantar – New Delhi’s answer to London’s Speakers’ Corner – to proclaim to a knot of TV crews that Trump had “already won” the Nov. 8 vote.

“Trump’s victory is confirmed early, due to his thoughts against Islamic terrorism and love for India and Hindus,” said Vishnu Gupta, the Hindu Sena’s self-styled national president.

Its celebration at a roadside stall featured posters bearing the slogans, “India Loves Trump” and “Trump Our Only Hope”. One supporter held up a portrait of Trump with a tilak, or religious mark, on his forehead and held a sweet to his mouth. Cont.

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Angry For Being Expelled, Indian High School Students Stab Teacher To Death

Story out of New Delhi, India: 

On Monday at a government school in Delhi, Class 12 students were sitting for an exam when two of their classmates started arguing with the teacher. They watched in horror when the teens suddenly stabbed their teacher.

Mukesh Kumar, a Hindi teacher at the school in Nangloi in west Delhi, collapsed. The 50-year-old died later in hospital.

Both the students were arrested hours later. One of them is 18 and the other will be in two months, the police say.

A large number of teachers from across Delhi protested near the school and blocked traffic in solidarity with their colleague and to demand more protection. All government schools boycotted exams and classes. Cont.

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People Ignore Woman Being Stabbed 20 Times In Street After Rejecting Marriage Proposal (Yes, It's India)

Story out of Delhi, India:

Indians have reacted in horror after a video emerged showing a 22-year-old schoolteacher being stabbed to death on a busy street in Delhi.

As the man kicks and stabs the woman in the shocking footage, several passers-by run away, with two people meekly attempting to intervene.

The woman, named by police as Karuna, had apparently rejected marriage proposals from the attacker, Surender Singh, 34.

He said he had been in love with the woman for more than a year. Police said he began to stalk her - and threatened to kill her - when she turned down his multiple marriage proposals.

The fact that no-one intervened has caused outrage on social media in India. Cont.

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Indian Couple Banned From Mount Everest After Faking Photos

An Indian couple have been banned from climbing Nepalese mountains for 10 years after authorities determined that their claimed ascent of Mount Everest this year was faked.

Dinesh Rathod and his wife, Tarakeshwari, both police officers, were hailed as the first Indian couple to climb the world’s highest peak on 23 May.

The couple’s claim, initially verified by Nepalese authorities, was based on photographs they supposedly had taken at the peak.

But in June complaints were lodged by several other mountaineers including Satyarup Siddhanta, a climber from West Bengal, who said the couple had used doctored versions of photographs from his successful ascent two days earlier.

On Tuesday Nepalese tourism officials said an investigation had determined the Rathods never reached the 8,850-metre peak.

The police commissioner in Pune, where the two officers are based, said their fraud was “indeed shocking”. Rashmi Shukla said the couple had “tarnished the image not only of police force but of the whole country.” (I'm pretty sure systematic rape has already done that.) Cont.

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Man Carries Dead Wife 12 km After Hospital Wouldn't Provide Transport

                  

Story out of Bhawanipatna, India:

An impoverished man in India carried his wife's body for 12km after the hospital where she died allegedly failed to provide an ambulance to carry the body back to their village.

Dana Majhi's wife Amang, 42, died from tuberculosis in the district hospital in Bhawanipatna town in Orissa state.

Mr Majhi said his village was 60km (37 miles) away and he couldn't afford to hire a vehicle.

The hospital authorities have denied his charge. Cont.

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Man Has Five-Hour Surgery To Remove 40 Knives

Story out of Amritsar, India:

Surjeet Singh from Amritsar in northern India complained to medical experts that had been suffering from severe stomach aches and a low appetite.

They initially thought he had developed a tumour but a biopsy revealed metal inside his body.

Mr Singh suffered from a disorder that gave him an urge to swallow knives, according to surgeon Jitendra Malhotra.

The patient said he developed the habit while he recovered from a traffic accident in Chandigarh.

He said: "I could not walk properly after that. I used to sit idle and started swallowing down knives. It pained a little."

Mr Singh thought he had swallowed 28 knives but doctors actually found 40 after a five-hour long operation.

Mr Singh is now in a stable condition following the procedure. Cont.

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India Bans Kite Strings After 2 Children, 1 Man Die After Their Throats Are Slit

A day after two people, including a three year old girl, died after getting entangled in the ‘maanjha’ (sharp string used for flying kites), the Delhi Government on Monday banned Chinese ‘maanjha’ in the capital. The move comes after Independence Day, when kite flying is practiced throughout the city. The sharp string is often coated with glass or metal to make it sharper, causing deaths of birds flying in the sky as well.

A 22-year-old man died Monday after his neck got entangled in the kite string, making him take a fatal fall from his motorcycle. The incident happened in west Delhi’s Mianwali Nagar area.

In another incident, a three-year-old girl Saanchi Goyal died when she was returning home with her parents after watching a movie in Naraina. The girl was looking out of open sunroof in the car when suddenly her neck got slit by a ‘manjha’ as they were passing through Rani Bagh area, a police officer said. Cont. (Video)

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Torrential Rain Fall In India Sweeps Elephant Far From Home

Story out of New Delhi, India:

Plenty of back-and-forth intermingling happens along the 2,500-mile zigzag border shared by India and Bangladesh. But the Bangladeshis are having trouble returning a four-and-a-half-ton Indian visitor to its home.

The experts left without any good ideas for how to quickly reunite the elephant with its herd in India.

The elephant’s odyssey began in June, when it was caught in the raging Brahmaputra River and Indian villagers pelted it with stones when it tried to come ashore. The elephant retreated to the river and was carried far downstream, eventually crossing the frontier into the wetlands of Bangladesh.

As the elephant plodded through the marshes, so many Bangladeshis trailed in boats that police officers were deployed to keep them away, according to the Press Trust of India, a news agency.

Bangladeshi forest rangers subdued the elephant with a tranquilizer dart on Thursday. It collapsed into the water and had to be hauled onto dry land.

The wildlife authorities have since given the elephant vitamins, bananas, banana stems, sugar cane and bamboo leaves, said Tapan Kumar Dey, chief executive of Bangladesh’s Nature Conservation Society, who is helping the government deal with the situation.

“The elephant is quite O.K. and enjoying the food now,” Mr. Dey said. “Managing the crowd is a bigger problem for us.” Cont.

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Man Is Robbed, Left To Bleed To Death After Hit-And-Run

Story out of New Delhi, India:

A 40-year-old e-rickshaw driver was killed on Wednesday morning after being hit by a speeding tempo in west Delhi’s Subhash Nagar. Police said the victim, identified as Matibool, a resident of West Bengal, lay bleeding on the road for close to 90 minutes before they reached the spot. No one had come to his aid in the meantime.

CCTV footage showed that a rickshaw-puller, in fact, stopped near the bleeding Matibool and made away with his mobile phone that was lying nearby.

The accident took place around 5:30am but was reported only around 7am. A police team reached the spot and rushed Matibool to a nearby hospital. Doctors declared him brought dead, stating that he had died due to excessive bleeding. Cont. (Video)

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At Least 22 Killed In India After Bus Falls Into River Following Bridge Collapse

Story out of Mumbai, India:

Two buses plunged into a flooded river after an old bridge collapsed in western India, leaving at least 22 people missing and feared dead, an official said Wednesday.

Rescuers had not found the buses or any survivors hours after the single-lane bridge on the Mumbai-Goa highway collapsed about midnight Tuesday, said Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra state's chief minister.

The two Maharashtra state-run buses were carrying a total of 18 passengers, two drivers and two conductors, according to Fadnavis.

He said the bridge, constructed in the 1940s, likely collapsed because it was buffeted by strong currents from the Savitri River, which was flooded by monsoon rains. Cont.

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Israeli Tourist Gang Raped In India

So India now is just a bunch of roaming animals in Tampa Bay Lightning shirts? Story out of New Delhi, India:

Police were questioning two men after gang rape of  25-year-old Israeli tourist who accepted a car ride while travelling in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

The woman, who had been looking for a taxi, got into the car in the hill resort of Manali before dawn Sunday to travel to a nearby town, said Padam Chand, a police superintendent in Manali.

There were six men in the car and two of them raped the tourist after stopping at a desolate spot, he said. Two of the men were in police custody and a search was on for the other four.

Manali police were in touch with officials at the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi and were keeping them informed about the progress in the investigation.

The picturesque hill resorts of Himachal Pradesh are very popular with young Israelis who travel in India after their military service, despite concerns about the safety of women. Cont.

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19 People Die In India After Drinking Cheap Booze

Similar incident last year saw 100 people die after drinking tainted liquor. Story out of Uttar Pradesh, India:

At least 19 people have died and another six have been blinded after drinking home-brewed liquor in northern India, police said.

Another 50 people fell ill after consuming the tainted liquor over the weekend and were being treated in hospitals in Etah in the Uttar Pradesh state.

Senior police officer Ajay Shankar Rai said the victims bought the liquor from a village shop on Friday evening and started falling ill and dying.

The shop owner, who has been arrested, was selling a pouch of tainted liquor for a mere 15 rupees (20p), six times cheaper than legal drink, he said.

Most of the victims were poor farmers and labourers, looking for a cheap means of intoxication.

India's poor often buy cheap home-brewed liquor made of syrups and medicines that are spiked with methyl alcohol and other industrial spirits to give it a kick.

District Magistrate Ajay Yadav ordered an investigation, but an excessive use of methyl alcohol in the liquor appears to have caused the deaths. Cont.

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Husband And Wife Die After 280 Lbs Wife Slips On Stairs

Story out of Ramdham, India:

A married couple both died when the wife toppled down a staircase, landing on her husband and crushing him.

Manjula Vithlani, aged 68, was rushing upstairs to check on her son Ashish, who had developed breathing problems.

But as she tried to reach the landing, she slipped and fell on her husband Natvarlal, following behind.

He suffered head injuries after being crushed underneath his wife, who weighed 20 stone.

Manjula also died of cerebral haemorrhage in the freak accident in Ramdham, India on Monday.

Ashish lived with his wife on the top floor of the house, in a wealthy area, while his parents lived downstairs. Cont.

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90 People Died Tuesday Of Lightning During India's Monsoon Season

Lightning strikes killed at least 90 people Tuesday in four Indian states as monsoon rains swept across much of the country.

"Lightning strikes are common during monsoons, but there have been more strikes than usual this year," said Vyas Ji, principal secretary in Bihar, where a record 57 people died Tuesday from the strikes -- the most of any state in the country.

Here's a breakdown of deaths reported in other states Tuesday:

• Seventeen people died in Uttar Pradesh, according to Anil Kumar, relief commissioner for the state government.

• Ten died in Jharkhand, according to Col. Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, state director of disaster management.

• Six people died in Madhya Pradesh, according to Maithili Sharan, additional director general of Madhya Pradesh police. Cont.

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Man's Body Goes Missing After He Dies Watching 'The Conjuring 2'

Story out of Tiruvannamalai, India:

A 65-year-old man died in a cinema auditorium last week while watching a screening of horror movie The Conjuring 2.

The incident occurred at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The cinema-goer, from Andhra Pradesh, had complained of chest pains during the film’s climax, and fainted shortly afterwards.

He was rushed to the nearby Old Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. Medics ordered his body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem but, according to the Times of India, the cadaver, and the person charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.

While there are no doubt rational explanations for both the man’s death and the disappearance of his body, the story has fuelled a wave of supernatural panic on social media that has accompanied the film’s release. Cont.

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Woman Sentenced To Life In Prison After Killing Husband For Not Having Sex With Her

Story out of Ahmedabad, India:

A city sessions court on Monday sentenced a woman to life imprisonment as she was held guilty of killing her husband after he refused to have sex with her.

Additional sessions judge U M Bhatt convicted 54-year-old Vimla Vaghela to life imprisonment.

According to case details, Vimla and her husband Narsinh were alone at their home in Noblenagar in Sardarnagar locality during an afternoon on November 2, 2013.

The chargesheet filed against the woman claimed that after her husband refused to have sex with her, she got infuriated and fought with him.

She doubted her husband's fidelity and accused him of having an extra-marital relationship. In a fit of rage, she picked up a stick and started beating her husband on his head. He died due to multiple injuries. Cont.

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India's Heat Reaches 47°C, Leaving More Than 130 Dead

Despite the onset of the monsoon in several parts of the country, India continues to reel under a brutal heat wave that has now lasted more than two months and claimed dozens of lives.

On Monday, temperatures rose to more than 47°C (116.6°F) in the western state of Rajasthan — which also recorded India’s hottest day ever at 123.8°F last month — the Press Trust of India reported.

More than 130 people have now died from the heat wave and resultant drought affecting large swathes of the country. Cont.

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Military Police Chase Drag Queen Out Of India

Story out of New Delhi, India:

A female drag artist has said she was forced to flee India when she performed to raise awareness of domestic abuse.

40-year-old Andrea Smith told the Birmingham Mail that her show was branded “indecent” by the organisers of a women’s conference at which she had been booked to perform.

Smith performs as Swingerella, and her ‘Finding Your Voice Through Art’ was apparently too much for the organisers of the event on Thursday.

Later she said she was told that military police were looking for her and that she risked being detained.

The performer then paid more than £800 for a last minute ticket back to the UK. Cont.

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