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Man is killed by rooster amid illegal cockfight in India
- Asia-Pacific
- February 28, 2021, 19:17
A man was fatally injured by a rooster with a blade tied to its leg during an illegal cockfight in southern India, local police have said. The incide(...)

India’s tumbling Covid cases raises question: Is the pandemic burning itself out?
- Asia-Pacific
- January 31, 2021, 16:08
For most of the past 11 months, Dr Sushila Kataria has worked 15 hours a day, seven days a week tending to a surging tide of Covid-19 patients at Meda(...)

Gardaí review video calls as part of inquiry into deaths of mother and children
- Crime & Law
- November 11, 2020, 18:50
Gardaí investigating the killing of Seema Banu and her two children in south Dublin are reviewing recordings of video calls she made to her family in (...)

Murdered children and their mother laid to rest in single plot
- Social Affairs
- November 6, 2020, 19:01
The father of murder victims Asfira Riza Syed (11) and Faizan Syed (6), and husband of their mother Seema Banu Syed (37) crouched on the ground by the(...)

‘No light at the end of the tunnel’ as India passes 4 million Covid-19 cases
- Asia-Pacific
- September 5, 2020, 14:10
The number of coronavirus cases recorded in India has passed four million as the country closes in on Brazil’s total. Authorities recorded 86,432 cas(...)

India detects record 82,000 new coronavirus cases in one day
- Asia-Pacific
- September 3, 2020, 10:50
India has recorded the highest single-day coronavirus case count of any country with 82,860 new infections even as Narendra Modi’s government pushes a(...)

Indian airline chief warns that fare controls could hit passenger demand
- Transport & Tourism
- May 24, 2020, 16:49
The president of India’s largest private airline IndiGo has warned that government intervention to set fares threatens to undermine the restarting of (...)

Police in Delhi accused of abetting Hindu violence against Muslims
- Asia-Pacific
- March 12, 2020, 18:29
Kaushar Ali, a house painter, was trying to get home when he ran into a battle. Hindu and Muslim mobs were hurling rocks at each other, blocking a str(...)

India heatwave: rain brings respite for some but death toll rises
- Asia-Pacific
- June 17, 2019, 14:44
Weekend showers provided a much-needed but partial respite to parts of India sweltering in a brutal heatwave. In Bihar, however, one of the poorest a(...)

Eleven die, more than 90 sick after eating temple food in India
- Asia-Pacific
- December 15, 2018, 18:16
Eleven people including two children died and more than 90 were hospitalised after consuming a religious food offering at a temple in southern India p(...)