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Cyclone Yaas batters Odisha, West Bengal after making landfall
Cyclone Yaas pounded the coastal areas in north Odisha and neighboring West Bengal as it made landfall around 9 a.m. on Wednesday with a wind speed of 130 kmph. More than a million people in India have been evacuated as the cyclone made landfall on (...)

26 - 05 - 2021
Rebels kill 6 In Eastern India
Maoist rebels killed six people, including two policemen in a brazen assault on a police station, in separate attacks in restive eastern India, police said Monday. Communist guerrillas ordered four men out of their homes and then shot them dead in (...)

13 - 09 - 2010
61 People Killed In Trains Crash In East India
A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people, the Associated Press reported. India's Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the site, raised the possibility the crash could (...)

19 - 07 - 2010
India detains Pakistan-bound ship carrying weapons
India detained a Pakistan-bound ship carrying undeclared military hardware, including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns, AP quoted police as saying on Saturday. The Panama-registered vessel MV Agean Glory sailed from Monrovia, Liberia, to (...)

26 - 06 - 2010
India halts trains after 115 die, sabotage blamed
Railway authorities canceled all night trains in an eastern Indian state Saturday after a passenger express train derailed and was hit by a cargo train, killing at least 115 people and injuring hundreds. The government accused Maoist rebels of (...)

29 - 05 - 2010
Cyclone Kills 31 People in Eastern India
A cyclone demolished thousands of mud huts and uprooted trees in several villages in eastern India, killing at least 31 people, an official said Wednesday. Srikumar Mukherjee, the civil defense minister, said the cyclone struck Tuesday night (...)

14 - 04 - 2010
Rebels kill 24 police in eastern India
A stunning attack by Maoist rebels killed at least 24 police officers Monday in a remote camp in eastern India, a top Indian official said Tuesday. More than 100 guerrillas attacked the security outpost, detonating land mines, setting the (...)

16 - 02 - 2010
Maoist rebels kill 4 police officers in India
Maoist rebels fired at a police patrol guarding a shopping area in eastern India over the weekend, killing four officers, authorities said Monday. The attackers escaped into a nearby forest as two other police officers chased them and exchanged (...)

09 - 11 - 2009
Indian officer freed after Maoists released
Maoist rebels released a kidnapped police officer after two days in captivity, as police freed 21 Maoists in India's West Bengal state. The apparent prisoner swap came late Thursday after the state government allowed the Maoists to be released on (...)

24 - 10 - 2009
40 killed as Cyclone Aila hits India, Bangladesh
The death toll from Cyclone Aila reached 40 on Tuesday after it lashed eastern India and Bangladesh and stranded thousands in their flooded villages, officials said. The storm destroyed nearly 3,000 thatched and mud houses and toppled a large (...)

26 - 05 - 2009
Indian police arrest 2 men in Mumbai investigation
Police arrested two Indian men accused of illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks, AP quoted police as saying. It was not immediately clear whether the two had prior knowledge of the attacks, which killed 171 (...)

06 - 12 - 2008
Explosion in Calcutta slum kills 2, injures 10
At least two people were killed and 10 wounded in an explosion Sunday in a slum in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, AP quoted police as saying. India has been on edge following a string of deadly bombings last week, but Calcutta Commissioner of (...)

03 - 08 - 2008
India flood death toll rises to 35
Soldiers and rescue workers rushed to provide relief to hundreds of thousands of people stranded in eastern India by monsoon floods that have killed at least 35 people in the past week, officials said Thursday. The floods destroyed bridges, washed (...)

20 - 06 - 2008
27 Indians killed in Monsoon floods
Indian military and civil authorities used speed boats to ferry food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by monsoon floods that have killed at least 27 people in the past week, officials said Wednesday. Local (...)

18 - 06 - 2008
Fresh outbreak of bird flu confirmed in eastern India
Authorities confirmed new cases of bird flu in eastern India on Sunday, a month after they slaughtered nearly four million birds in the same state to stem the country's worst ever outbreak of the disease, AP reported. State workers were (...)

09 - 03 - 2008
Bird flu spreads in eastern India
Authorities confirmed India's worst outbreak of bird flu was the virulent H5N1 virus strain Tuesday, and announced plans to slaughter 2 million birds in eastern India in a bid to contain the disease. The H5N1 strain has been blamed for the deaths (...)

22 - 01 - 2008
Birds killed in India to curb new outbreaks of bird flu
Health workers slaughtered more poultry in eastern India on Sunday as state officials worked to contain fresh outbreaks of bird flu, according to AP. Authorities ordered the slaughter of some 600,000 birds, mostly chickens, after bird flu was (...)

20 - 01 - 2008
Indian Health authorities order slaughter of 400,000 birds
Health workers slaughtered more poultry Saturday in a bid to curb the spread of bird flu in western India, as authorities declared the situation under control, according to a report of the Associated Press. Officials ordered the slaughter of about (...)

19 - 01 - 2008
Thousands of chickens killed to contain bird flu in India
Health workers slaughtered thousands of chickens for a third day Friday to curb the spread of bird flu in eastern India, as poultry fell ill and died in new areas in the region, the Associated Press reported. Nearly 3,000 birds were found dead on (...)

18 - 01 - 2008
1 killed, 49 injured in train accident in India
A passenger train derailed in eastern India, killing one person and injuring dozens more, a railway official said Monday. The Brahmputra Mail was traveling from Gauhati, the capital of the northeastern state of Assam, to New Delhi when the (...)

10 - 12 - 2007
India's monsoon death toll hits 113
At least eight people were crushed to death overnight when heavy rains caused their homes in eastern India to collapse on top of them, taking the country's monsoon death toll to 113, police said Tuesday. Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, (...)

03 - 07 - 2007
Farmers, villagers violently resist seizure of land for factories in eastern India
Police clashed with irate villagers protesting the takeover of their land by a state-run company in eastern India, where continuing violence threatens to scare away potential investors, a news report said Sunday, according to AP. Police (...)

17 - 06 - 2007
Two bombs discovered on an Indian train
Police discovered two bombs hidden inside a compartment of a train at the city's main railroad station Monday, police said. «Our people were on a routine search of trains and found the bombs in one of the trains,» said Amarkanti Sarkar, (...)

21 - 05 - 2007
Police kill 5 suspected communist rebels in India
Indian forces killed five suspected communist rebels in eastern India in a five-hour gun battle, police said Sunday. The clash, which occurred late Saturday in the eastern state of Jharkhand, came after police received a tip that a group of (...)

13 - 05 - 2007
2 reportedly die in clash between Indian farmers, communist party supporters
Local farmers and supporters of the communist-controlled state government clashed in India's West Bengal state on Sunday, firing guns and exploding homemade bombs that killed two people and injured two others, a communist leader said. The clash (...)

29 - 04 - 2007
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