64 m. ago Photos show how one New Delhi family is coping after being displaced twice by floods

When the floodwaters of the Yamuna River gushed into Bindu Pandey’s home in New Delhi, she knew her family had to leave instantly.

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43 h. ago Flood alerts issued for large area of Welsh coastline as thunderstorms hit

The flood alert covers a large coastal area towards West Wales

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44 h. ago Flood alert in India’s capital as river Yamuna breaches danger mark

Nearly 300,000 people were evacuated in the past 48 hours across the border in Pakistan’s Punjab province

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3 d. ago Photos of New Delhi residents on the swollen banks of the Yamuna River

Water levels of India's Yamuna River, which originates in the Himalayas, crossed the danger mark on Tuesday, posing a threat of flooding in low-lying areas of New Delhi.

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9 d. ago 'King of Bollywood', 59, shows off incredible 'Kris Jenner style facelift' as fans mistake him for his son

Shah Rukh, better known as 'King Khan' to his legions of fans, appeared to be aging backwards at a press event in India's financial capital - Mumbai - last week.

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1 week ago Mumbai vs London: Why one traveller feels safer in Indian city than UK capital | Trending

Mumbai vs London: Why one traveller feels safer in Indian city than UK capital | Trending - Hindustan Times  Hindustan Times

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2 w. ago Pakistan issues flood alert for southern districts as rescuers search for missing in the northwest

Pakistan has issued a flood alert for some southern districts, warning of torrential rains, as rescue teams continued searching for missing people in the northwest, where severe floods have killed hundreds over the past week

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3 w. ago Outcry in India as Delhi moves to remove 'all ONE MILLION' stray dogs from its streets following rabies outbreak

India's top court ordered authorities in the capital Delhi and its suburbs on Monday to remove all stray dogs, following a rise in rabies cases, particularly among children.

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4 w. ago Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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