Authorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in the eastern states of Odisha (formerly Orissa) and West Bengal.
Thousands of relief workers have been deployed to minimize damage from Cyclone (...)
A retired Indian high court judge will investigate allegations that a woman was physically and sexually assaulted by a group of police inside a police station in the eastern state of Odisha, the authorities say.
After the allegations, leveled last (...)
More than 50 bodies remain unclaimed a month after a deadly train crash killed at least 293 people in India.
The accident took place on 2 June in the eastern state of Odisha when a passenger train hit a stationary goods train and derailed on to an (...)
Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake.
"Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side," the 32-year-old (...)
Droupadi Murmu, a tribal politician, was sworn in as India's new president on Monday.
The 64-year-old former teacher comes from Odisha (Orissa) state and has had a stint as a state governor.
Murmu is the country's first tribal leader in the top (...)
India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Droupadi Murmu, a tribal politician, as its candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections.
The 64-year-old former teacher, who comes from Odisha (Orissa) state, has spent decades with (...)
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 (...)
Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the largest global jewelry retailer, has opened two new showrooms in India as part of its global expansion plans. The new showrooms were opened at Kumbakonam in Tami Nadu and Chandigarh in Punjab. Malabar Group (...)
The Indian Railways are about to restart operations post COVID-19 lockdown in a phased manner from Tuesday, according to a statement released on Sunday. Also, train bookings would open from May 11 onwards, after 4 p.m.
Instead of opening up all the (...)
More than a dozen Indian states are planning to resist or reconsider steep hikes in traffic fines imposed by the central government, ministers and local media said on Thursday, amid rising anger from motorists across the country.
The Bharatiya (...)
Four workers are feared dead and nine have been injured in a landslide at a Coal India Ltd mine in the eastern state of Odisha, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
India is one of the most dangerous countries to be a coal miner, with one worker (...)
The strongest cyclone to hit India in five years killed at least 12 people in eastern Odisha state, before swinging north-eastwards into Bangladesh on Saturday where four more people died although more than a million had been moved to safety.
After (...)
India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies ahead of landfall on Friday, with thousand of villagers piling household possessions on to trucks before fleeing their (...)
Indigenous people waved flags and shouted slogans in eastern India on Monday to protest a court order evicting more than one million indigenous families accused of encroaching on forestlands, witnesses said.
The Supreme Court issued an order on Feb. (...)
An eastern Indian state ordered the cull of more than 2,500 chickens and other poultry after four dead crows and three dead poultry tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, officials said on Tuesday.
The bird flu virus was confirmed at (...)
Expatriates from Odisha organized a grand celebration in the Saudi capital on Friday to popularize the ethos, art and culture of the eastern Indian state.
The eighth annual celebrations were held under the banner of Riyadh Odisha Socio-Cultural (...)
At least nine people were killed when a three-story building collapsed in heavy rains in a Mumbai suburb on Sunday, state media reported, and officials said 32 people were killed by lightning a day earlier in India's eastern state of (...)
From stopping work at brick kilns on very hot days to issuing five-day advance warning of heat waves, the Indian state of Odisha is readying a pioneering action plan to prepare for increasingly deadly summer heat, officials said.
Last summer, (...)
Saeed Haider
Saudi Gazette
NEW DELHI — It was the worst scare Delhi has felt in decades. The high-intensity earthquake that has devastated Nepal, jolted the people of Delhi and many parts of east and north India.
Aftershocks on Sunday compounded (...)
BHUBANESWAR, India — Maoist guerrillas killed five policemen in eastern India on Monday by blowing up their vehicle, police said, in the latest of a spate of attacks that has left 13 dead since Saturday.
Maoists detonated an improvised explosive (...)
BHUBANESWAR, India — Pakistan's field hockey coach Shahnaz Sheikh has called for other Asian countries to help the form power extricate itself from a dismal state caused by a lack of funds.
“We've hardly played any hockey over the past two years,” (...)
BHUBANESWAR, India — Ten women died and 14 were in a serious condition after botched operations at a government mass sterilization “camp” in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Tuesday.
The women fell ill on Monday, two days (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1435, Oct 18, 2014, SPA -- The death toll from a cyclone that hit India's east coast last week has risen to 41, as authorities struggle to restore power, transport and communication links and shelter 150,000 people forced to abandon (...)
BHUBANESWAR, India — Suspected Maoist rebels set off two bombs in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing 13 people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and officials charged with holding elections in the region.
The attacks, (...)
Indian Maoist rebels have freed an Italian tourist who was kidnapped almost two weeks ago in a remote area of eastern state Orissa, handing him to a group of reporters on Sunday, Indian TV channels said.
Italy's foreign minister said Claudio (...)
