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Floods, landslide kill 14 in Nepal

Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 people across the country, with disaster teams searching for nine missing, police said Sunday. Flooding in neighbouring India,
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Billionaire tycoon and Chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani (R) with his wife Nita Ambani attends a mass wedding ceremony of underprivileged couples ahead of their son Anant Ambani's wedding to Radhika Merchant, at Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai on July 2, 2024. - Asia's richest man, billionaire Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani, launched on July 2, the start of the lavish finale of his son's wedding celebrations with mass nuptials for 52 "underprivileged" couples. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

Justin Bieber heads wedding gala thrown by Asia’s richest man

Canadian pop star Justin Bieber entertained some of India’s biggest celebrities in the latest instalment of months-long wedding celebrations thrown for the son of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani. Bieber, who shot
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Hoardings with portraits of former police constable-turned-Hindu preacher Bhole Baba are kept at a workshop near his ashram in Bichhawan village of Mainpuri district, in IndiaÂ’s Uttar Pradesh state on July 4, 2024. - Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his latest sermon ended in a stampede that killed 121 of his followers. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

Indian preacher not hiding after stampede, says lawyer

The self-styled Indian preacher whose latest sermon ended in a deadly stampede is not hiding from police, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday, without disclosing the guru’s whereabouts. Bhole Baba’s prayer meeting
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Shopkeepers attend a phone call as they wait for customers at a medical store in Fenchuganj, in Sylhet on July 3, 2024. - Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said on July 3. (Photo by Mamun Hossain / AFP)

Floods kill nine in India, Bangladesh

Torrential rains and surging rivers across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh have killed at least nine people, disaster officials said Thursday, with more than three million people affected. Monsoon rains cause widespread
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116 killed in stampede at India religious gathering

At least 116 people were crushed to death at an overcrowded Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, government officials said, the worst such tragedy in more than a decade. A
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Preliminary photos and videos of the collision showed a pile-up of train compartments in Phansidewa district with one nearly vertical in the air PHOTO: (RajuBistaBJP/X)

Five killed as Indian passenger and goods trains collide

At least five people were killed when an express passenger train and a goods train collided Monday in India’s West Bengal state, derailing three passenger carriages, police said. Images on Indian broadcasters
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