14 h. ago Sewage in drinking water blamed for deaths of at least 10 people in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Hundreds also hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above drinking water pipeline appears to have let sewage into the supplySewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Sewage in drinking water blamed for at least 10 deaths in India’s ‘cleanest city’

Hundreds hospitalised in Indore after public toilet built above water pipeline appears to have let sewage into supplySewage-contaminated drinking water is being blamed for killing at least 10 people, including a baby boy, and sending more than 270 others to hospital in Indore, ranked India’s “cleanest city” for the last eight years.Residents of a congested, lower-income neighbourhood in Indore, Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, had been warning authorities for months about foul-smelling tap water. Their complaints went unheeded, despite the city’s much-lauded ranking for waste segregation and other cleanliness measures. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Contaminated water kills at least 10 people in ‘cleanest Indian city’

Over 200 people in hospitals following baterial contamination of drinking water

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62 h. ago Protests and candlelight vigils erupt in India over suspected racial killing of student

Compensation announced as police reject racial motive, prompting anger from student groups and politicians

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8 d. ago At least 10 dead as passenger bus erupts in flames after collision in India

Second bus carrying at least 45 schoolchildren narrowly avoids disaster

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1 week ago Eight elephants killed as passenger train hits herd in India’s northeast

Engine and five coaches derailed, but no passengers were injured

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2 w. ago ‘A master of complications’: Felicity Kendal returns to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink after three decades

The writer’s former partner and her co-star Ruby Ashbourne Serkis describe the bittersweet nature of remounting his 90s play so soon after his death• ‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwrightI won’t, I promise, refer to Felicity Kendal as Tom Stoppard’s muse. “No,” she says firmly. “Not this week.” Speaking to Stoppard’s former partner and longtime leading lady is delicate in the immediate aftermath of the writer’s death. But she is previewing a revival of his Indian Ink, so he shimmers through the conversation. The way Kendal refers to Stoppard in the present tense tells its own poignant story.Settling into a squishy brown sofa at Hampstead theatre, Kendal describes revisiting the 1995 work, developed from a 1991 radio play. “It’s a play that I always thought I’d like to go back to.” Previously starring as Flora Crewe, a provocative British poet visiting 1930s India, she now plays Eleanor Swan, Flora’s sister. We meet Eleanor in the 1...

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3 w. ago Goa nightclub owners flew to Thailand after deadly fire killed 25, police say

Police say they are seeking Interpol’s help in locating Luthra brothers in Thailand

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3 w. ago Tourists among 25 dead after fire tears through packed dance floor at nightclub in Goa

Over a dozen kitchen staff among those killed in fire that is believed to have started with an exploding gas cylinder

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3 w. ago Fire at nightclub in Goa kills at least 25 people including four tourists

Over a dozen kitchen staff among those killed in fire that is believed to have started with an exploding gas cylinder

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4 w. ago Elderly dog owner dies after falling through ice on pond trying to save his beloved pup

Indiana officials say Phillip Hoover’s death was an accidental drowning

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