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The death toll from major floods in India's tourist hot spot of Kerala has jumped to 164, state chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Friday, issuing a fresh heavy rainfall warning for the battered region. Kerala's government has described the crisis — one of the worst ...
India's Hindu nationalist Vajpayee, who set off nuke race and peace, dead at 93
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 93. The All India Institute ...
India warns of 'extremely grave' crisis as floods kill 106, leave dozens missing, 150,000 homeless
Hundreds of troops led a desperate operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floods in India's Kerala state Thursday as the death toll reached 106 with nearly 150,000 left homeless. Helicopters airlifted stranded victims from rooftops and dam gates were thrown open as incessant torrential ...
Bucking superstition, Japanese woman tunnels way to top of civil-engineering world
For civil engineer Reiko Abe, 55, being competent at her job was never enough. Her sex and the superstitions surrounding it caused her to be turned away from job interviews and construction sites in Japan. After clawing her way to the top of the male-dominated ...
India will send a manned flight into space by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday as part of India's Independence Day celebrations. He said India will become the fourth country — after Russia, the United States and China — to achieve the feat, and ...
Japanese household product maker Lixil launches plumber training program in India
Lixil Group Corp., Japan's leading manufacturer of household products, has launched a training program for plumbers in India to help fill a shortage of such workers while improving professional standards. Dubbed "Project Nadee," the program aims to produce 50,000 commercially licensed plumbers in the next ...
Politics of citizenship flares anew in northeast India's Assam state
Tens of thousands of people left off a draft list of Indian citizens have begun picking up forms to file appeals across the northeastern state of Assam, wading into a Byzantine legal and bureaucratic process that many fear could lead to detention, expulsion or ...
How Ikea caters to local tastes around the world
Ikea's blue-and-yellow stores are instantly recognizable: iconic, monolithic and now, as India's first store throws open its doors to the masses, operating in more than 400 stores in some 50 countries. But while every branch of the world's largest furniture retailer has that most unmistakable ...
India to implement 5G services by 2022 to catch up with Japan and other Asian peers
India plans to roll out state-of-the-art 5G telecom services in the next four years, a senior official said, as the nation rushes to catch up with its Asian peers. "We are not there yet," Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said in an interview in New Delhi, ...
India puts citizenship of 4 million people in Assam at risk with new register
India on Monday effectively stripped 4 million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state. The draft National Register of Citizens, published on Monday, includes only those able to prove they were in Assam before 1971, when ...
'He looked like a terrorist!' Rural India joy ride ended in rumor-fueled mob attack and lynching
In the tiny hamlet of Murki in the hinterlands of south India, Inspector V.B. Yadwad surveyed a pile of bricks and stones in a ditch where he and other police officers had been attacked earlier this month while trying to save a group of ...
