At least 70 people were killed when a fire tore through crumbling apartment blocks in a historic part of Dhaka, setting off a chain of explosions and a wall of flames down nearby streets, officials said Thursday. It started in one building where chemicals for deodorants and other household uses were illegally stored and spread […]Read More
Four soldiers have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir in a gun battle with militants, police say. The clash occurred in Pulwama district, where more than 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a suicide attack on Thursday. A civilian was also killed in the shootout as Indian troops launched a search operation in the area. […]Read More
The Republic of India is sourcing about 10 per cent of its energy requirement from Nigeria, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, stated on Tuesday. He disclosed this during his visit to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, at the headquarters of the NNPC in Abuja. Thakur […]Read More
The massive fire that broke out at 4.30 a.m. on Tuesday inside a four-storey hotel in Delhi’s Karol Bagh area claimed as many as 17 innocent lives, including one child and three women, officials confirmed. Confirming 17 deaths in the incident, Delhi’s top fire officer Atul Garg said that the fire department received a phone […]Read More
Nigeria can explore $5bn line of credit with low interest rate from India, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, has said. Thakur made the disclosure when he visited the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, according to a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday. He said that the Prime Minister […]Read More
India on Wednesday unveiled the world’s tallest statue in the western state of Gujurat in celebration of her unity. Towering at 182 metres, the Statue of Unity is a tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a hero of India’s freedom struggle and the country’s first deputy prime minister. Patel, a Gujarati, was known as the ‘Iron […]Read More
Floods in India’s Southern State of Kerala have claimed 39 lives and caused a loss of 1.1 billion dollars, officials said on Monday. This is as the region braces for more rains during one of its worst monsoon seasons in a century. As many as 33,372 people evacuated from villages in low-lying areas were housed […]Read More
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