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☆ New Delhi sees flooding after broken regulator causes river water to flow into city
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/6] Traffic moves through a flooded road, after a rise in the waters of river Yamuna due to heavy monsoon rains, in New Delhi, India, July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiNEW DELHI, July 14 (Reuters) - Several areas of India's capital New Delhi remained inundated on Friday after water from the Yamuna river, which runs through the city, flowed in through a broken drain regulator, authorities said. Roads surrounding Rajghat - a memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi - were inundated, with water also flowing into the memorial area itself. The city's ITO area, which houses several private and government offices, including the headquarters of the Delhi Police, was also flooded. Reporting by Sakshi Dayal; Additional reporting by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by Raju GopalakrishnanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Adnan Abidi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mahatma Gandhi, ITO, Sakshi Dayal, Tanvi Mehta, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Force, Delhi Police, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Indraprastha, Delhi

☆ India readies takeoff for mission to land spacecraft on moon's south pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Nivedita Bhattacharjee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BENGALURU, July 14 (Reuters) - India's space agency made final preparations on Friday for the launch of a rocket that will attempt to land a robotic rover on the moon's south pole, a first in space exploration. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft would also be the first to land at the lunar south pole, an area of special interest for space agencies and private space companies because of the presence of water ice that could support a future space station. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it had completed a review of the mission readiness ahead of Friday's scheduled launch. India's much-awaited moon mission Chandrayaan-3 has been scheduled for launch on July 14, 2023. "Joining a billion Indians in wishing great luck for #Chandrayaan3 mission!"

Persons: ISRO's, Narendra Modi's, Pawan Chandana, Nivedita, Kevin Krolicki, Jamie Freed Organizations: Soviet, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Skyroot Aerospace, Thomson Locations: BENGALURU, India, United States, Soviet Union, China, Andhra Pradesh, Bengaluru

☆ Floods force Indian capital to shut schools, offices, and plan water rationing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/7] Men walk across a road flooded due to the high water level of the river Yamuna after heavy monsoon rains, New Delhi, India, July 13, 2023. Video footage showed submerged roads in the downtown area, where government and private companies' offices are located, with water half-way up the sides of parked cars. "Due to closure of water treatment plants, the supply of water will be affected by up to 25%. Flash floods in the state over the weekend brought down a bridge and washed away several clusters of hutments. Roads have been washed away during heavy rains in the mountainous Uttarakhand state, its chief minister told reporters on Wednesday.

Persons: Adnan Abidi, Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal, Krishna N, Shivam Patel, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: REUTERS, India Meteorological Department, Civil, Das, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand

CNN —Flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in northern India have killed at least 41 people since the weekend, according to local authorities. Thirty-one people have died in Himachal Pradesh, the state’s Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told reporters Tuesday, while a further 10 have died in neighboring Punjab, Revenue Minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa told Indian news agency ANI. The Dalai Lama, who lives in Himachal Pradesh, said in a statement Tuesday that his trust will be also be donating to the rescue and relief efforts, but did not specify an amount. Further rain is forecast in both Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, though the Indian Meteorological Department says it is expected to ease. Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images“Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall” is forecast for the northern regions of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh until the end of the week, the department said Sunday.

Persons: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Brahm Shankar Jimpa, Sukhu, Dalai Lama, Money Sharma Organizations: CNN, Revenue, Twitter, Indian Meteorological Department, Getty Locations: India, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, New Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

☆ New Delhi evacuates hundreds over risk of flooding after record rainfall
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Residents wait to climb on a flyover under construction, after being displaced by the rising water level of river Yamuna after heavy monsoon rains in New Delhi, India, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiNEW DELHI, July 12 (Reuters) - India's capital New Delhi on Wednesday began evacuating hundreds of residents over the risk of flooding as record rainfall has swelled water levels in a river that runs through the city, its chief minister said. States near Delhi have received record rainfall so far this monsoon season that started June 1, with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh recording 100% and 70% more rainfall than average respectively, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Delhi too has recorded 112% above-average rainfall so far, according to the IMD. Reporting by Shivam Patel in New Delhi; editing by Mark HeinrichOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Adnan Abidi, Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal, Shivam Patel, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: REUTERS, Wednesday, India Meteorological Department, IMD, Thomson Locations: New Delhi, India, DELHI, Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh

☆ Torrential rain, floods kill 22 across northern India
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

National Disaster Response Force/Handout... Read moreJuly 10 (Reuters) - Torrential rain across northern India has killed at least 22 people, as well as causing landslides and flash floods in the region, authorities and local media said on Monday. At least 22 people died in floods and landslides in the northern states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab on Sunday, the Times of India newspaper reported. In the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, flash floods over the weekend brought down a bridge and swept away several hutments. Streets across the northern states, including in Punjab, Delhi and Uttarakhand were flooded. Many districts in Himachal Pradesh received a month’s rainfall in a day at the weekend, said a senior weather department official.

Persons: Read, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Rajendra Organizations: National, Response Force, . Schools, Authorities, Thomson Locations: Nagwain, Himachal Pradesh, India, New Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab, Delhi

☆ Schools remain shut in India's violence-hit Manipur despite reopening order
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Zarir Hussain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

GUWAHATI, India, July 5 (Reuters) - Nearly all schools remained shut in India's violence-hit Manipur state despite a government order to reopen them on Wednesday in a bid to restore normalcy after two months of ethnic clashes that have killed almost 120 people. Students, teachers and support staff did not show up at schools in the morning in the state in northeast India, said a state education department official who requested anonymity. Four private schools opened but all government-run schools were still closed, he added. At least 118 people have been killed and more than 40,000 displaced in the violence. Additional reporting by Krishn Kaushik; Writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Kim CoghillOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Ibotombi Singh, Narendra Modi's, Giridhar Aramane, Min Aung Hlaing, Krishn Kaushik, Shivam Patel, Kim Coghill Organizations: India's, Thomson Locations: GUWAHATI, India, Manipur, Imphal, Myanmar, Kuki

☆ India bus fire kills 25 - ANI
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

July 1 (Reuters) - Twenty five people died and about eight people were injured after a bus travelling in India's Maharashtra state caught fire, India's ANI News Agency reported early on Saturday. The bus, travelling from Yavatmal to Pune, was carrying 32 people, the report said. Reporting by Rahat Sandhu in Bengaluru; Editing by William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Rahat Sandhu, William Mallard Organizations: Agency, Thomson Locations: India's Maharashtra, Yavatmal, Pune, Bengaluru

☆ Rahul Gandhi's convoy stopped by Indian police in Manipur, teargas fired
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Supporters of Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of India's main opposition Congress party, speak with him after his convoy, heading to Churachandpur, was stopped by the police in Bishnupur district, Manipur, India, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/StringerGUWAHATI, India, June 29 (Reuters) - Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was stopped by local police on Thursday and teargas fired near his convoy when the 53-year old scion of the Congress party was on his way to visit the violence-hit northeastern Manipur state. Teargas shells were then fired to disperse a crowd that had started gathering in the area. "There is a possibility of a grenade attack along the highway through which Rahul Gandhi is moving. Gandhi's convoy returned to Imphal and he reached Churachandpur by helicopter, Meghachandra Singh, Manipur state Congress president, said.

Persons: Rahul Gandhi, India's, Stringer, teargas, Gandhi, Heisnam Balram Singh, we've, Meghachandra, Narendra Modi's, Zarir Hussain, Sudipto Ganguly, Frank Jack Daniel Our Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Churachandpur, Bishnupur district, Manipur, India, Stringer GUWAHATI, Myanmar, Bishnupur, Imphal, Meghachandra Singh, Kuki

☆ Amazon commits to $15 billion India investment, CEO Andy Jassy says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

US President Joe Biden looks on as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies, in the East Room the White House in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2023. Amazon.com will invest an additional $15 billion in India, the company's Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his meeting on Friday. The investment will take the e-commerce giant's total India investment across all businesses to $26 billion by 2030, he said. Separately, Google will open a global fintech operation center in GIFT City in India's western state of Gujarat, CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters in a video shared on Twitter by Reuters partner ANI company. "We shared Google is investing $10 billion in the India digitization fund, and we are continuing to invest through that," Pichai said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Andy Jassy, Modi, Jassy, Sundar Pichai, Pichai Organizations: India's, Amazon.com, Web Services, Google, Twitter Locations: Washington ,, India, City, India's, Gujarat

☆ Amazon raises investment in India to $26 bln by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A man walks past a logo of Amazon Prime Video during a launch event in Mumbai, India, April 28, 2022. Earlier, Amazon had announced a $6.5 billion investment plan, largely to boost its e-commerce business where it competes with Walmart's Flipkart and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail. The new investment amount committed now comes to around an additional $6.5 billion. The e-commerce giant's announced investment during Modi's trip adds to other companies, including U.S. semiconductor toolmaker Applied Materials and memory chip firm Micron Technology, which have made commitments during the Indian prime minister's state visit. Modi and Jassy spoke about supporting Indian startups, creating jobs, enabling exports, digitisation, and empowering individuals and small businesses to compete globally, an Amazon blog post said.

Persons: Francis Mascarenhas, Andy Jassy, Narendra Modi, Jassy, Walmart's Flipkart, Mukesh Ambani's, Modi, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Google's, Satya Nadella, Aditya Kalra, William Mallard, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra Organizations: Amazon Prime, REUTERS, Amazon.com Inc, Web Services, Amazon, giant's, Micron Technology, Google, Reuters, Twitter, U.S, Thomson Locations: Mumbai, India, DELHI, United States, U.S, City, India's, Gujarat, Washington

☆ Amazon commits to $15 billion India investment, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 23 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will invest an additional $15 billion in India, the company's Chief Executive Andy Jassy told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his meeting on Friday. The investment will take the e-commerce giant's total India investment across all businesses to $26 billion by 2030, he said. Modi and Jassy spoke about supporting Indian startups, creating jobs, enabling exports, digitization, and empowering individuals and small businesses to compete globally, an Amazon blog post said. "We shared Google is investing $10 billion in the India digitization fund, and we are continuing to invest through that," Pichai said. ($1 = 81.9800 Indian rupees)Reporting by Jahnavi Nidumolu in Bengaluru; Editing by William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Andy Jassy, Narendra Modi, Modi, Jassy, Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Tim Cook, Google's, Satya Nadella, Jahnavi, William Mallard Organizations: Amazon.com Inc, Web Services, Google, Twitter, U.S, Thomson Locations: India, City, India's, Gujarat, Washington, Bengaluru

☆ Elon Musk wants to bring Starlink to the Indian market — but he'll have to get around India's richest tycoon first
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk said he hopes to bring SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service to India. SpaceX is lobbying the government to assign licenses for satellite services, but Reliance is calling for a public auction. Elon Musk is eyeing the massive Indian market, saying he hopes to bring SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service into the country after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week. Musk told reporters on Tuesday he was keen to launch Starlink in India as the service "can be incredibly helpful" in remote villages, per India's ANI agency. Reliance Jio vs. StarlinkThe two companies have different stances on how the Indian government's satellite broadband spectrum should be distributed, Reuters reported.

Persons: Elon Musk, He's, Mukesh Ambani, Narendra Modi, Musk, Ambani, Tesla, China, Modi —, — Organizations: Asia's, Reliance, SpaceX, Morning, Reliance Industries, He's, Bloomberg, Ambani's Reliance, Reuters, Ambani's, US International Trade Administration, ITA Locations: India, India's, China, Indian

A source previously told Reuters that Musk would brief Modi on plans to set up a manufacturing base in India. "He (Modi) really cares about India because he's pushing us to make significant investments in India, which is something we intend to do," Musk told ANI. Executives of Tesla visited India and held talks with Indian bureaucrats and ministers last month on establishing a manufacturing base for cars and batteries in India. U.S. companies need to reduce reliance on China as a manufacturing base in the face of tensions between Washington and Beijing. If we don't obey local government laws, we will get shut down...," Musk told reporters on Tuesday.

Persons: Elon Musk, Narendra Modi, Modi, Musk, Tesla, Jack Dorsey, Hyunjoo Jin, Shivangi Acharya, Aftab Ahmed, Aditya Kalra, Aditi Shah, Tanvi Mehta, Conor Humphries, Angus MacSwan, Mark Heinrich, Cynthia Osterman, Kim Coghill Organizations: Reuters, Tesla, Twitter, Thomson Locations: United States, India, U.S, China, Washington, Beijing

NEW DELHI, June 20 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for the U.S. on Tuesday on a state visit that has been projected as a milestone in ties between the two countries that would deepen and diversify their partnership. Modi has been to the U.S. five times since becoming prime minister in 2014 but the June 21-24 trip will be his first with the full diplomatic status of an official state visit. Washington sees India as a vital partner in its efforts to push back against China's expanding influence worldwide. Modi's visit comes amid differences in the positions of Washington and New Delhi over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The world has full confidence that India’s top-most priority is peace," he said in the interview published on Tuesday.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi, Joe Biden's, Elon Musk, Tesla, Vinay Kwatra, Twitter's, Jack Dorsey, Lavanya Ahire, YP Rajesh, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Indian, U.S, Reuters, Twitter, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, Security Council, YP, Thomson Locations: DELHI, U.S, Washington and New Delhi, India, Washington, United States, New Delhi, Ukraine, Moscow, United Nations, BENGALURU

☆ Opinion | Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor doesn’t force you to choose, because she is both The Lucky One you want to be, and every bit the Anti-Hero you are inside. Like Taylor, she dresses to be pretty and cool (and sometimes, for revenge), but inside, she is in all kinds of pain. She finds in Taylor Swift an actual hero who meets her where she is but also shows her the badass place she could get to — so intoxicating precisely because it is within reach. “What would Taylor Swift do?” is a refrain among certain patients in my practice. Taylor Swift articulates not only the treachery of bullying but also the cruelty just shy of it that is even more pervasive: meanness, exclusion, intermittent ghosting.

Persons: —, It’s, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Taylor, she’d, Romeo, Taylor Swift

☆ Probe into Indian rail disaster opens as trains start running
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Jatindra Dash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Following non-stop efforts to rescue survivors, and clear and repair the track, trains resumed running over that section of the line on Sunday night. The inquiry is underway," a senior railway officer told a Reuters reporter, as officials checked documents being submitted for examination. India's Railway Board, the top executive body, has recommended that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the investigation into the cause of the disaster. "We have to move towards normalization... Our responsibility is not over yet," railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters. "Passenger occupancy is almost 99%," Aditya Chaudhary, chief public relations officer of South Eastern Railway, told Reuters.

Persons: Adnan Abidi, A.M, Chowdhary, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Aditya Chaudhary, Jatindra Dash, Subrata, Tanvi Mehta, Sudipto Ganguly, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Railway Board, Central Bureau of, Express, South Eastern Railway, Thomson Locations: Balasore district, Odisha, India, Adnan, Adnan Abidi KHARAGPUR, Balasore, Kharagpur, West Bengal, Chennai, Kolkata, Howrah, New Delhi

☆ India train crash: Devastating scenes of despair after one of the worst train crashes the country has ever seen
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Ivan Watson Kunal Sehgal Deepak Rao Rhea Mogul | Ivan Watson | Kunal Sehgal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Some of the coaches rolled to the other side,” the 32-year-old restaurant worker told CNN from a hospital in India’s eastern Odisha state. Their story is just one of hundreds unfolding across the country as India deals with one of the worst train crashes it has ever seen. Doctors confer as they attend to survivors of a train accident in a hospital in Balasore, India, on June 4, 2023. A drone view shows derailed coaches after two passenger trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 3, 2023. In 2011, scores were killed when a train jumped tracks in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Persons: CNN — Manto Kumar, “, ’, Punit Paranjpe, “ I’ve, I’ve, Laluti Devi, ”, Abhishek Chinnappa, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Laxminaranyan, Stringer, Reuters Anushuman Purohi, ” Vaishnaw, Rafiq Maqbool, Narendra Modi, Modi’s, Vaishnaw, Kumar Organizations: CNN, Express, Getty, Mojo, India’s, Government Medical College, Howrah, Reuters, Sunday, Indian, Crime Records, AP Railways, Central Bureau of Investigation, Authorities Locations: India’s, Odisha, India, Balasore, AFP, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Kolkata, Bahanaga Bazar, Bangalore, Tamil Nadu, Balasore district, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh

☆ India suspension bridge collapses for a second time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI, June 5 (Reuters) - A suspension bridge being built in India's poorest state collapsed for the second time in 14 months, with one person reported missing, Reuters partner ANI reported on Monday. The bridge was being built over the River Ganges in Bhagalpur district of India's eastern state of Bihar. Later we found out the bridge had collapsed," Rakesh Kumar, a local resident, told ANI. Eight men were on the bridge at the time of its collapse on Sunday, with one guard reported missing, ANI said. In October last year, a colonial-era suspension bridge collapsed in the town of Morbi in the western state of Gujarat collapsed, plunging hundreds into the Machchhu river below and killing 135.

Persons: Rakesh Kumar, Amit Raj, Nitish Kumar, Sakshi Dayal, Nick Macfie Organizations: Construction, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Bhagalpur district, India's, Bihar, Morbi, Gujarat

Rescue workers gather around damaged carriages during search for survivors at the accident site on Saturday. With the rail routes still blocked, family members of deceased passengers are having to find their way by other means to the crash site, to help identify the dead. India’s extensive rail network, one of the largest in the world, was built more than 160 years ago under British colonial rule. Decaying infrastructure is often cited as a cause for traffic delays and numerous train accidents in India. An ambitious National Rail Plan, announced in 2021, envisages that all major cities in north, west and south India should be connected by high-speed rail.

Persons: –, Ashwini Vaishnaw, ”, Dibyangshu Sarkar, Jaya Varma Sinha, ” Sinha, Mansukh Mandaviya, Mandaviya, Naveen Patnaik, Patnaik, “, Narenda Modi, Narendra Modi, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Fumio Kishida, Antonio Guterres, Pope Francis, Modi, Modi’s, Albright Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Howrah, Bangalore . Rescue, Getty, Jaya, India’s Health, Sunday, Odisha’s, Public Relations Department, Indian, Rapid, Force, British, United Nations, National Crime Records, Group, Rail Plan, Bharat Locations: New Delhi, London, Hong Kong, Balasore, Odisha, Indian, Kolkata, Chennai, Bazar, Bangalore, AFP, Tamil Nadu, Russian, India, Jammu, Kashmir

But rescuers expect the death toll to rise further, as many people are thought to be trapped under upturned carriages. A damaged train carriage, following the deadly collision in Balasore, India, on June 2. Video footage and photographs from Friday’s crash site show scenes of chaos and despair. Rescuers search for survivors at the site of the crash in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, on June 2. The latest crash comes as India carries out a major overhaul of its infrastructure, with the country investing millions to modernize transport links.

Persons: Sudhanshu Sarangi, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Narendra Singh Bundela, ” Bundela, ”, “, Narendra Modi, Modi Organizations: CNN, Rescuers, Fire Services, NDTV, Railway Minister, Response Force, Press Trust of, Force, Rapid Action Force, Soro Block, “, Bharatiya Janata Party, National Crime Records, Western Locations: India, Balasore, Odisha, Bahanaga, Balasore district, Press Trust of India, Soro, Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi, Mumbai, country’s Jammu, Kashmir

Two passenger trains and a goods train collided in an accident in the city of Balasore in Odisha state, according to a video statement by state chief secretary Pradeep Jena. Press Trust of India/APA view of a damaged compartment, following the deadly train collision in Balasore, India June 2, 2023. The train travels through India’s east coast, between West Bengal’s capital Kolkata to the South Indian city of Chennai. “Distressed by the train accident in Odisha. The following November, at least 39 people died and 50 others were seriously injured in a train derailment in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Persons: Pradeep Jena, “, ”, Mamata Banerjee, Narendra Modi Organizations: CNN, News18, ”, Jena, Twitter, Press Trust of, Indian, Local, AP India’s, Railways, Communications, Electronics, Information Technology, National Crime Records Locations: India, Balasore, Odisha, Balarore, Press Trust of India, Shalimar, Chennai Coromandel, West Bengal, India’s, West Bengal’s, Kolkata, Indian, Chennai, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh

☆ Factbox: India's deadliest rail accidents
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 3 (Reuters) - At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India's worst rail accidents in years. Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in India in recent decades:June 1981: At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track and fall into a river during a cyclone. July 1988: An express train leaves the rails and plunges into a monsoon-swollen lake near Quilon in southern India, killing at least 106 people. October 2005: Several coaches of a passenger train derail in southern Andhra Pradesh state, near Velugonda. January 2017: At least 41 people are killed after several coaches of a passenger train go off the rails in southern Andhra Pradesh state.

Persons: Akriti Sharma, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Odisha, India, Quilon, Delhi, Balasore, Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Velugonda, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India's Amritsar, Bengaluru

☆ At least 50 dead, 350 injured in train crash in eastern India, media report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BHUBANESWAR/KOLKATA June 2 (Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed and 350 injured when two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday, Indian media reported. The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Express, railway officials said. The Howrah Superfast Express derailed and became entangled with the Coromandel Express, South Eastern Railway authorities said in a statement. Media reports had earlier said that the crash was between the Coromandel Express and a goods train. Media reports said at least 50 people had died.

Persons: Pradeep Jena, Naveen Patnaik, Narendra Modi, Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, Abinaya, Jatindra, Nag Choudhury, Shubhendu Satish Deshmukh, Andrew Heavens, David Holmes, Frances Kerry Organizations: Eastern Railway, Media, Coromandel, Reuters, REUTERS, Railways, Force, Thomson Locations: BHUBANESWAR, KOLKATA, Odisha, Kolkata, Chennai, Howrah, Balasore district, Balasore, India, Odisha's Bhubaneswar, West Bengal, Bengaluru

New Delhi CNN —A 16 year-old girl was brutally stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a busy public alleyway in India’s capital on Sunday, sparking renewed outrage over the safety of women in the country and violence perpetrated by men. Sahil, a mechanic, was detained in Bulandshahr in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, Ravi Kumar Singh, Deputy Police Commissioner for Outer Delhi, told reporters on Monday. Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commision for Women, told ANI she’s never seen such a frightening incident. The frequency of crimes against women in India also appears to be increasing. “We learn to live with this kind of situation in our country which is very unfortunate,” Bhayana told CNN.

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