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  • 17
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    ago

    Indian passenger train rams freight train; 25 dead

    Manjunath Kiran / AFP - Getty Images

    Railway officials oversee the clear up operation of the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penukonda, about 105 miles north of Bangalore, India, on May 22, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports — A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.

    Rescuers worked for about six hours to pull some 70 survivors from the twisted and smoldering wreckage near the southwestern border of Andhra Pradesh state. Read the full story.

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    Rescuers evacuate an injured woman from the train.

    EPA

    Emergency services search for injured passengers under the derailed carriages.

     

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  • 2
    days
    ago

    Annual Urs Festival needs to be seen to be believed

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee uses a sharp objects as he self flagellates during a procession to the revered Muslim Shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan on May 21.

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee dances with a band during a procession to the revered Muslim Shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

    Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the Urs festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan. The annual festival observes the anniversary of the Muslim saint's death.

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    Just keeping an eye out for a hot moslum chick that would like to get down an dirty.

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  • 6
    days
    ago

    Biswaranjan Rout / AP

    Waiting for the rain on parched land with umbrella in hand

    A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, on May 17. Huge swathes of rural farmland has turned dry as farmers await the annual monsoon rains which, according to the India Meteorological Department, are expected to reach on time this year.

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  • 11
    May
    2012
    2:10pm, EDT

    Scenes from a Kashmiri orphanage

    Dar Yasin / AP

    Kashmiri orphan girl Rafia Azad, who lost her father in a bomb blast, sits on her bed at Gulshan-E-Bannat Orphanage in Gopal Pora, some 10 miles west of Srinagar, India on May 9. Though there are varying statistics on the number of orphaned children in Jammu and Kashmir state, some estimates put it at around 100,000, many of them orphaned due to the armed conflict that began in 1989, according to news reports.

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    Kashmiri orphan boys play a game of carrom inside their room at Gulshan Mahal Orphanage in Srinagar, India on May 10.

    Dar Yasin / AP

    A Kashmiri orphan girl offers prayers at Gulshan-E-Bannat Orphanage in Gopal Pora, some 10 miles west of Srinagar, India on May 9.

    Dar Yasin / AP

    Kashmiri orphan boys study inside their room at Gulshan Mahal Orphanage in Srinagar, India on May 10.

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    No, shoot them and put them out of their uneducated misery.

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  • 10
    May
    2012
    10:07am, EDT

    Storks losing their wetland homes end up at local garbage dump in India

    EPA

    An Indian woman rag picker searches for material as a group of Greater Adjutant Stork seen in the background at a rubbish dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India, on May 10.

    Fast vanishing wetlands in and around Guwahati city have now become a major threat for the survival of the Greater Adjutant Stork. Guwahati city has the largest concentration of the stork in the world but their numbers are gradually declining due to the loss of wetlands, habitat and declining availability of food.

    In Nov. 2011, China Central Television wrote about India's efforts to save the endangered birds. Biologists helped educate the communities sharing land with the birds' habitats about the importance of the species to the environment.

    EPA

    An Indian rag picker girls search for material as a group of Greater Adjutant Stork seen in the background at a rubbish dump near Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati city, India, on May 10.

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    same-old, same-old happening... everywhere, as habitat for critters is destroyed for the only population on earth that has no population control and growing exponentially -- humankind

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  • 10
    May
    2012
    8:11am, EDT

    Indian wheat rots in the open after bumper harvest

    Altaf Qadri / AP

    A laborer lifts a sack of rotting wheat grain trying to salvage any that was still edible, at an open storage area in Khamanon village, some 133 miles from Amritsar, India, on May 9, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports — Millions of tons of wheat are rotting in the open after India ran out of warehouse space to store another bumper crop.

    Opposition parties have called the rotting grain a scandal. Nearly half of India's children under age 5 are malnourished.

    Food Minister K.V. Thomas said Thursday the government was taking "all necessary steps" to increase its storage capacities and that the government was looking at private partnerships to attract investment in building warehouses. Read the full story.

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    Altaf Qadri / AP

    A laborer stands on rotting wheat grain at an open storage area in Khamanon village on May 9, 2012.

     

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    Tragic that a civilizaed Indian govt cant distribute wheat food to undernourished children....the people in govt should be outraged at the Ministry of Agriculture for allowing excess food to rot.

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  • 9
    May
    2012
    1:34pm, EDT

    Indian police use water cannons to control protesters

    Tauseef Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images

    Kashmiri government employees are sprayed with purple colored water by Indian police to disperse a protest in Srinagar on May 9.

    Fayaz Kabli / Reuters

    Indian police in Srinagar on May 9 used a water cannon and batons to disperse hundreds of government employees while detaining dozens as they attempted to reach the civil secretariat.

    Indian police in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, detained dozens of government employees, used water cannons to control protestors and resorted to baton charging during a protest on May 9.

    The government employees were demanding an increase in the retirement age from 58 to 60 and the release of arrears.

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  • 6
    May
    2012
    1:01pm, EDT

    Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP

    An Indian woman plays with her child at the doorway of her house ahead of Mother's Day, in Allahabad, India, May 6. Mother's Day will be celebrated on May 13.

    A mother's love in India

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  • 2
    May
    2012
    8:04am, EDT

    Vivek Prakash / Reuters

    Sana, a five-year-old girl, plays on a cloth sling hanging from a signalling pole as smoke from a garbage dump rises next to a railway track in Mumbai, India, on May 2, 2012.

    Garbage dump, and kids' playground

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    It's sad to think children anywhere have to play in such filthy conditions.

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  • 1
    May
    2012
    8:12am, EDT

    100 still missing after India ferry disaster

    EPA

    Villagers along with Border Security Force (BSF) personnel engaged in a rescue operation for a capsized ferry at the Brahmaputra River in Bura-Buri village in Goalpara district in Assam, India, on May 1, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports — Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeast India, an official said Tuesday.

    At least 100 people were still missing Tuesday after the ferry carrying about 350 people broke into two pieces late Monday, said Pritam Saikia, the district magistrate of Goalpara district.

    Deep sea divers and disaster rescue soldiers worked through the night to pull bodies from the Brahmaputra River in Assam state. Rescue operations were centered around the tiny village of Buraburi near the India-Bangladesh border. Read the full story.

    EPA

    Divers and rescue workers stepped up the search for survivors on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The double-decked ferry was carrying approximately 300 passengers when it capsized during a storm in the western district of Dhubri on Monday evening. Some 100 people swam to safety or were rescued.

    EPA

    A villager watches the rescue operation from the top of a banana tree on the bank of the Brahmaputra River.

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    Relatives mourn alongside the bodies of victims of the ferry disaster on May 1, 2012. Indian authorities said that some bodies might have been washed downstream into Bangladesh.

     

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    Ever seen an Indian ferry? This one was probably designed to hold 50 or so but had 300 on board. Same this with their buses and trains..........amazingly overloaded then there is an accident and many are killed. Very sad.

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  • 1
    May
    2012
    6:55am, EDT

    May Day is marked around the world with demands for stronger labor rights

    Dita Alangkara / AP

    Indonesian workers shout slogans during a rally to mark May Day in Jakarta on May 1, 2012. Thousands of Indonesian workers staged the rally demanding the government raise the minimum wage and reject outsourcing.

    The Associated Press reports — May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers' holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures.

    Thousands of workers protested in the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan and other Asian nations, with the demand for wage hikes amid soaring oil prices a common theme. They said their take-home pay could not keep up with rising consumer prices, while also calling for lower school fees and expressing a variety of other gripes. Read the full story.

    Andrey Smirnov / AFP - Getty Images

    A man carries a poster reading "Putin is our President!" during the May Labor Day rally of the Russian Trade Unions and United Russia party in Moscow on May 1, 2012. Russia's president-elect Vladimir Putin and outgoing head of state Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday joined over 100,000 people in a Soviet-style mass march through Moscow.

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    Protesters dance around the burnt effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a May Day rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila on May 1, 2012. Thousands of workers marched under a brutal sun in Manila to demand a wage increase amid an onslaught of oil price increases, but the Philippine President rejected a $3 daily pay hike which the workers have been demanding since 1999 and warned may worsen inflation, spark layoffs and turn away foreign investors.

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    Bahraini Shiites attend a demonstration celebrating Labor Day in the village of Muqsha'a on April 30, 2012. Many Shiite employees were either dismissed or indefinitely suspended from their jobs in the wake of a brutal crackdown by the Bahrain government.

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    Indian sex workers hold candles and posters as they march in a May Day rally asking for their rights and the recognition of their profession in Kolkata, late on April 30, 2012.

    Vincent Thian / AP

    Visitors takes picture in front of Tiananmen gate in Beijing, China, on May 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of visitors flock to the area around Tiananmen Square to enjoy a public holiday to mark May Day.

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    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2nd L), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (2nd R), Independent Trade Unions' Chairman Mikhail Shmakov (L) and State Duma deputy Viktor Pinsky (R) toast in a bar after attending a rally in Moscow on May 1, 2012.

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    Garment workers attend a rally to mark May Day at Paltan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 1, 2012. Different workers organizations have arranged programmes inluding a rally, seminars and cultural events as they demand the establishment of workers' rights.

    Farooq Khan / EPA

    Laborers drilling a mountain to extract rocks inside a stone quarry on May 1, 2012 in Srinagar, Kashmir. Local labor leaders told media their colleagues at many construction sites were denied a May Day public holiday by their employers.

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    Like your 8 hour day? Paid overtime? Paid leave? Occupational health and safety? Child labor laws? Minimum wages? Workers compensation? Unemployment compensation? Right to sue over sexual harassment? If you still have them, partially paid health insurance or pensions? Thank a Union! No politician is …

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  • 27
    Apr
    2012
    6:27am, EDT

    Kevin Frayer / AP

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, reads a note as his wife Yoo Soon-taek puts a pair of slippers down after paying respects at Rajghat, the memorial to the late Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, India, on April 27, 2012. Ban is on a three day official visit to India.

    Ban Ki-moon pays tribute to Gandhi on India visit

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