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  2. Giant billboard collapse kills at least 14 in Mumbai

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    Mithil Aggarwal. May 14, 2024 at 12:19 AM. At least 14 people were killed in the Indian city of Mumbai after a giant billboard collapsed on them during a sudden thunderstorm, local authorities ...

  3. Four dead, several feared trapped under billboard in freak ...

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    May 13, 2024 at 9:02 AM. MUMBAI (Reuters) - At least four people are dead, 61 injured and more than 40 feared trapped after a massive billboard fell during a rainstorm in India's financial capital ...

  4. Caste-related violence in India - Wikipedia

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    Caste-related violence in India has occurred and continues to occur in various forms. According to a report by Human Rights Watch: inhuman, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste. Caste is descent-based and hereditary in nature. It is a characteristic determined by one's birth into a ...

  5. A stone quarry collapses in India’s northeast due to heavy ...

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    A stone quarry has collapsed Tuesday in India’s northeast due to heavy rains triggered by a tropical storm, killing 13 quarry workers, officials said. Senior police officer Rahul Alwal said ...

  6. Over-the-top media services in India - Wikipedia

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    Hotstar. Hotstar (now Disney+ Hotstar) is the most subscribed–to OTT platform in India, owned by Star India as of July 2020, with around 300 million active users and over 350 million downloads. [4] According to Hotstar's India Watch Report 2018, 96% of watch time on Hotstar comes from videos longer than 20 minutes, while one–third of ...

  7. Siege of Cawnpore - Wikipedia

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    All, except five men and two women. Unknown. The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged East India Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were duped into a false assurance of a safe passage to Allahabad by the rebel forces under Nana Sahib. Their evacuation from Cawnpore thus turned into ...

  8. Parts of northern India scorched by extreme heat with New ...

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    India's weather department expects heat wave conditions to persist across the north for the next few days, and has put several states on high alert. On Friday, parts of New Delhi reported up to 47 ...

  9. List of cases of police brutality in India - Wikipedia

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    1970s. 1976 – The Rajan case. 18 April 1976 – The Turkman gate demolition and firing. 1979 to 1980 – The Bhagalpur blindings was an incident in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India when police blinded 31 undertrials (or convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes.