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☆ Rescuers Free Workers Trapped in Mountain Tunnel in India for More Than Two Weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A rescue team on Tuesday reached 41 construction workers sealed inside a mountain tunnel in northern India by a landslide for more than two weeks. Photo: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty ImagesRescuers freed the 41 construction workers sealed inside a mountain tunnel in northern India by a landslide for over two weeks on Tuesday, after an arduous effort to break through a wall of about 200 feet of debris. Thousands of people, including rescue workers, family members, journalists and officials gathered at the site of the rescue in India’s mountainous Uttarakhand state to watch the final stage of the rescue. Hundreds of miles away in the villages of eastern India, where many of the men are from, and around the country, people have watched the televised blow-by-blow progress of the rescue since it began on Nov. 12.

Persons: Sajjad Hussain Organizations: Tuesday Locations: India, AFP, Uttarakhand

Israel’s military released footage with blurred faces that it says shows Hamas militants taking hostages into Al-Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7. WSJ spoke to friends and colleagues of captured Nepali student Bipin Joshi, whom they believe to be one of the men in the video. Photo: Scene from a video released by Israel Defense Forces/circle illustration by WSJThe footage held little more than a grainy flicker of a young man being bundled through the hallways of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital by armed militants, but to friends and colleagues his identity seemed clear: It was Bipin. Nepali student Bipin Joshi, 23 years old, had last been seen on the morning of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, dragged away by militants who had killed 10 of his countrymen in the southern Israeli kibbutz where they harvested oranges and lemons. Since then, a small number of Nepali diplomats, local volunteers and Bipin’s friends had been piecing together fragments of evidence to answer a basic question: Did he survive?

Persons: Bipin Joshi Organizations: Shifa, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Al, Gaza’s

☆ Nepal Bans TikTok, Saying It Disturbs ‘Social Harmony’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Shan Li | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nepal’s government said last week it would require social-media companies to set up liaison offices in the country. Photo: prakash mathema/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesNEW DELHI—Nepal is banning TikTok over concerns that the video platform is “disturbing social harmony,” joining a growing list of countries that have partially or completely banned the popular Chinese-owned app. Nepal’s cabinet, led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal , decided to ban TikTok on Monday, said Rekha Sharma , the minister of communication and information technology.

Persons: prakash mathema, ”, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Rekha Sharma Organizations: Agence France Locations: DELHI, Nepal

Bipin Joshi watched the two grenades skid across the cement floor of the windowless room where he was hiding, shoulder-to-shoulder with 16 other student farmers from Nepal. Outside, the Hamas gunmen marauding through the orchards and dairy barn of Kibbutz Alumim were killing anyone they could find. The Nepalis had arrived in Israel just three weeks earlier, on a college program to tend orange and lemon groves. They were two days short of their first paycheck. Now, somehow, they were huddled against a wall, bracing for impact.

Persons: Bipin Joshi, Alumim, Nepalis Locations: Nepal, Israel

☆ Melting Glaciers Raise Risk of Deadly Himalayan Floods
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Himalayan Lake Bursts in India, Leaving 14 Dead, Dozens Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India Train Crash Rescuers Describe Search of Railcars Filled With Bodies
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Shan Li | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India Train Crash Survivors Recount Crushed Railcars, Dying Cries for Help
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Shan Li | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ After Horrific India Train Crash, a Frantic Search for Loved Ones and Cries of ‘Save Me Mother’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Shan Li | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Why Was Gandhi Killed? After Official Edit, India’s Textbooks Don’t Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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AHMEDABAD, India— Gautam Adani is ubiquitous in this country. His name is plastered on roadside billboards and on the airports and shipping docks he operates. His power plants light Mumbai office towers and irrigate rural fields, fueled by coal he imports from mines as far away as Australia. He recently expanded into defense and media.

☆ Russian Deaths in Indian Jungle Followed Days of Binge-Drinking
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Stacy Meichtry | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BHUBANESWAR, India—Pavel Antov holed himself up in his hotel room, refusing food and drink for two days, after the death of a longtime friend who had accompanied him on a trip deep into the jungles of east India. The last time the staff at the Hotel Sai International recall seeing the 65-year-old Russian—a prominent regional lawmaker who owned a sausage-making company—he was alone on Dec. 24, swinging his fists in the air and heading for the hotel roof.

☆ In Nepal Crash, Black Box Is Recovered From Yeti Airlines Plane
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nepalese authorities have recovered flight recorders from a plane crash that killed 69 people, a key step in their probe into what brought down the Yeti Airlines flight. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army, said search teams located the black box of flight YT-691 on Monday, a day after it crashed into the gorge of the Seti River as it was approaching the international airport at Pokhara, Nepal’s second-most-populous city after Kathmandu.

☆ Nepal Recovers Black Box From Yeti Airlines Plane Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescuers on Monday were searching for three people still unaccounted for in the plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal. Nepalese authorities have recovered flight recorders from a plane crash that killed 69 people, a key step in their probe into what brought down the Yeti Airlines flight. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army, said search teams located the black box of flight YT-691 on Monday, a day after it crashed into the gorge of the Seti River as it was approaching Pokhara International Airport.

☆ At Least 68 Killed in Nepal Plane Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 68 people and sending Nepalese authorities into a scramble to determine what brought the aircraft down. The Yeti Airlines turboprop hit the gorge of the Seti River about a mile from its destination, Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Nepal Plane Crash Kills Dozens, Some Remain Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane carrying 72 people crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 62, according to a spokesman for the Nepalese army. The Yeti Airlines aircraft went down in the gorge of the Seti River about a mile away from Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the army spokesman. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Nepal Plane Crash Kills Dozens, Many Remain Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane carrying 72 people crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 29, according to a spokesman for the Nepalese army. The Yeti Airlines aircraft went down in the gorge of the Seti River about a mile away from Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the army spokesman. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Russian Politician and Businessman Dies After Falling From Hotel Roof in India
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A hotel in India’s Odisha state where police are investigating the sudden deaths of a Russian politician, who reportedly criticized the Ukraine war, and his companion. MOSCOW—A Russian politician and businessman died after falling from the roof of a hotel in India on Christmas Eve, police said, two days after a companion succumbed to a heart attack and months after he was in the media spotlight for a quickly retracted WhatsApp post deemed critical of Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Odisha said they were investigating the deaths of the two men, Pavel Antov, a 65-year-old regional lawmaker from western Russia who owned a sausage-making company, and Vladimir Bydanov, 61, with whom he had been sharing a room.

KANPUR, India—Since losing his wife during a wave of the coronavirus last year, Ram Bilas Kovind said, he has been turned away repeatedly by authorities in the northern Indian city of Kanpur as he has unsuccessfully sought compensation available to India’s Covid-19 victims. “They ask us for proof. How can we prove when she wasn’t tested, when she wasn’t hospitalized? Almost everyone in the area was sick at the same time,” said the 69-year-old. “We have nothing.”

☆ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat State Heads to the Polls
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Shan Li | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

GANDHINAGAR, INDIA—Gujarat, the home state of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi , will vote in state assembly elections starting this week, offering a barometer of the endurance of Mr. Modi’s personal appeal ahead of national elections in 2024 in which he will run for a third term. The Bharatiya Janata Party has ruled in the western coastal state for 27 years, and there is little doubt of another victory, but the party is leaving little to chance after a surprisingly tough challenge from its rival, the Indian National Congress Party, in 2017. Top BJP leaders were also stung by the party’s defeat in West Bengal last year after it poured money and resources into winning state elections there, analysts said.

☆ Ela Bhatt, Organizer of India’s Women Workers, Dies at 89
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ela Bhatt was a lawyer for an Indian textile union in the early 1970s when she decided to help other types of workers, ones who were harder to organize and often barely noticed: women balancing heavy loads of fabric, often perched precariously atop their heads, to make deliveries to markets. She founded the Self-Employed Women’s Association, known as SEWA, in 1972 in her hometown of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat. It became one of the country’s strongest advocates for India’s millions of women working informally in many kinds of low-paid positions, including maids, vegetable sellers, street food vendors, seamstresses and cigarette rollers. They often kept their families afloat by patching together work of all kinds—yet weren’t even recognized as workers in India’s official census data.

☆ Indian Bridge Collapse Casts Harsh Spotlight on Safety Practices
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Prakash Parmar was supposed to meet a prospective bride for his brother last Sunday in his hometown of Morbi in northwestern India. But when those plans were postponed, he, his brother and his sister decided to visit the town’s star attraction: a colonial-era suspension bridge. The bridge had reopened days earlier after being closed for months for repairs, just in time for the first major holiday season—celebrations of Diwali and the new year in the state of Gujarat—without Covid-19 restrictions. Three young cousins and a neighbor joined them.

☆ More Than 130 People Dead in Cable Bridge Collapse in India’s Gujarat State
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The government in the Indian state of Gujarat opened a criminal inquiry into the agency in charge of maintaining a historic cable bridge after the popular attraction collapsed on Sunday under the weight of hundreds of visitors, killing more than 130 people. Harsh Sanghavi, the state’s home minister, told reporters that an inquiry under criminal provisions relating to manslaughter was opened into the local company in charge of maintaining the century-old bridge. The bridge, which was built in the late 19th century, reopened to the public last week after having been closed for months for repairs.

☆ Collapse of Overcrowded Suspension Bridge Kills 68 in India’s Gujarat State
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Tripti Lahiri | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescue operations continued Sunday night after the bridge, which had spanned over the Machchhu River for over a century, collapsed earlier in the evening. A suspension bridge collapsed and killed at least 68 people in the western Indian state of Gujarat after the more-than-century-old structure was crowded with hundreds of visitors on Sunday, according to the state disaster management agency. Officers managing emergency operations for the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority said that as of late Sunday night, 68 bodies had been recovered. Some 170 people had been rescued and taken to a local hospital in Morbi district, where the incident occurred. Rescue operations are continuing, the disaster agency said.

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