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  2. 2024 Kolkata rape and murder incident - Wikipedia

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    On the night of 8 August 2024, the victim had dinner with her colleagues and retired in a seminar hall after a 36-hour shift in the hospital. At about 9:30 IST the following morning, her body was discovered in the seminar hall in a semi-nude state with her eyes, mouth, and genitals bleeding.

  3. Nuclear power in India - Wikipedia

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    India has to go for nuclear power generation in a big way using thorium-based reactors. Thorium, a non-fissile material is available in abundance in our country." [112] India has vast thorium reserves and quite limited uranium reserves. [113] [114] The long-term goal of India's nuclear program has been to develop an advanced heavy-water thorium ...

  4. List of terrorist incidents in India - Wikipedia

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    Date Incidents & Description Location People Killed Injured Status of the Case 1 8 June 1980 Mandai massacre: Tripura: 500 N/A 2 2 August 1984 Meenambakkam bomb blast [2]: Tamil Nadu

  5. Internet in India - Wikipedia

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    While early computer networks were operated since the late 1970s by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, the military, [9] along with general-use computer networks such as INDONET, NICNET, and VIKRAM, [10] the history of the Internet in India began with the launch of the Educational Research Network (ERNET) in 1986. [11]

  6. List of Indian Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...

  7. Violence against Christians in India - Wikipedia

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    India's ministry of internal security and its National Commission for Minorities (NCM) officially list more than a hundred religiously motivated attacks against Christians each year. [3] As of 2020, the USCIRF placed India as Tier-1 in minority persecution along with countries like China, North Korea, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. [4]

  8. Capital punishment in India - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment in India is a legal penalty for some crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as other laws.. Executions are carried out by hanging as the primary method of execution per Section 354(5) of the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973 is "Hanging by the neck until dead", and is imposed only in the 'rarest

  9. 2024 Wayanad landslides - Wikipedia

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    According to the latest census data provided by the Government of India, the population of Wayanad district increased 11-fold over the past century, from 75,149 in 1901 to 817,420 in 2011, within an area of 2,132 km 2 (823 sq mi). [124]