Police in India have arrested a popular yoga guru after he tried to lead an anti-corruption protest to parliament. Baba Ramdev was peacefully led away by police on Monday, as he shouted slogans calling for the removal of the Congress-Party led government. The yoga guru began his protest on Thursday, calling for the government to […]
Indian Yoga Guru Arrested After Anti-Corruption Protest
Posted August 13th, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
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INDIA BUS ACCIDENT – V
Posted August 11th, 2012 at 5:25 am (UTC-5)
Officials in northern India say a bus has plunged into a gorge, killing at least 40 people. Authorities say the passenger bus skidded off the road Saturday in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh state, falling at least 76 meters into the gorge. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise. India has the […]
Indian Minister OKs ‘a Little Stealing’ by Staff
Posted August 10th, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
A state government minister in India who says bureaucrats can “steal a little” as long as they work hard has sparked a national outcry. Shivpal Singh Yadav is public works minister in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. Video from a meeting closed to the press caught him telling government workers they can steal, but […]
Indian Anti-Corruption Activist’s Supporters to Form Political Party
Posted August 3rd, 2012 at 2:40 pm (UTC-5)
Supporters of Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare say they will form a political party in order to further their cause in parliament. The announcement came Friday as Hazare ended a six-day hunger strike in New Delhi to protest lawmakers’ failure to pass anti-graft legislation. He and his supporters have also called for an investigation into […]
India Facing First Drought in 3 Years
Posted August 3rd, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC-5)
India is facing its first drought in three years, with this year’s monsoon rains down by nearly 20 percent. In a report issued late Thursday, the Indian Meteorological Department said more than half of India has received deficient rainfall between June and August of this year. Portions of the country’s northwest, including key food-producing states […]
India Restores Power After Massive Blackout
Posted August 1st, 2012 at 3:15 am (UTC-5)
Power has been fully restored in India following a cascading blackout that left more than 600 million people without electricity. Officials said Wednesday the power was back on in northern and eastern India, where Tuesday’s historic outage affected people in 20 states. The blackout was the second in as many days, after a smaller outage […]
India Starting to Emerge from Blackout
Posted July 31st, 2012 at 1:50 pm (UTC-5)
The lights are flickering back on in New Delhi and other parts of India, hours after a massive power grid failure plunged much of the country into darkness. Indian media reports power was restored in most of the Indian capital late Tuesday, allowing train service to resume and for traffic lights to come back to […]
Blackout Cuts Power to 600 Million in India
Posted July 31st, 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC-5)
A massive grid failure has left more than half of India’s population — over 600 million people — without power. This is the second large-scale outage to hit the country in as many days. Tuesday’s blackout hit more than 12 states in the country’s north and east, including major cities like New Delhi and Kolkata. […]
Blackout Cuts Power to 600 Million in India
Posted July 31st, 2012 at 5:40 am (UTC-5)
A massive grid failure has left more than 600 million people in India without power, the second large-scale outage to hit the country in as many days. Tuesday’s blackout hit the northern and eastern parts of the country, including major cities like New Delhi and Kolkata. It brought rail service to a halt and knocked […]
Blackout Leaves More than 300 Million Without Power in India
Posted July 30th, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
A grid failure knocked out power to more than 300 million people in northern India on Monday, the worst blackout in the country in a decade. The power outage severely disrupted transport networks including the rail service, while traffic signals went out in major cities, causing huge traffic jams in the capital, New Delhi. Indian […]
