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Unusually early season heavy rains have unleashed catastrophic flooding along the Himalayan foothills of northern India.At least 23 people have died and a further 50 people were missing, the AP website said on Monday.The mountain state of Uttarakhand bore the brunt of the devastating floods, which washed away buildings and roads, triggering landslides. Video captured the scenes of buildings collapsing into raging torrents, washing away.More than 10,000 religious pilgrims were stranded on a mountain road after slides blocked their path. Evacuations were undertaken by helicopter, the AP said.Upper reaches of the Ganga (Ganges) and Yamuna rivers swelled into flood by the heavy runoff, the TImes of India website said.Rainfall was at least 25.7 inches since Saturday at Dehradun in southern Uttarakhand, weather data available to AccuWeather.com showed.Elsewhere in India, torrential rain pounded wide areas of the north and west, between Friday and Monday.Forecasters in Mumbai warned of "extre...
Police say a bus in northern India has rolled nearly 150 meters (500 feet) down a gorge, killing 18 people and injuring 14.The accident occurred Friday nearly 310 ki...
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Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday.More than a...
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“The Coming Collapse of China ” author Gordon Chang on the dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands.
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The body of a woman who died after being gang-raped and beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated Sunday amid an outpouring of anger and grief by millions acro...
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