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Articles Written by: BISWAJEET BANERJEE
Doctors in northern India on Thursday warned residents to avoid eating dairy-based sweets ahead of a major Hindu festival after police raided two factories and found them making milk and milk products with detergent and animal fat.
Some 28 people ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
eTaiwan News,
15 Oct 2009
Police charged six people, including a doctor, for spreading infectious diseases after they allegedly supplied blood contaminated with hepatitis B and C to blood banks in northern India, police said Tuesday.
Police raided blood banks in Lucknow, ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Taiwan News,
1 Sep 2009
Police fired rubber bullets and arrested 28 people for allegedly setting fire to government property during a violent protest against power outages in northern India as it reels under a heat wave, an official said Wednesday.
Three people were ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Taiwan News,
15 Jul 2009
LUCKNOW, India—Nearly 100 human skulls and other skeletal remains were discovered in a dried-up pond in northern India, officials said Monday. The remains likely belonged to people whom police could not identify and were dumped there to avoid having to ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Boston Globe,
25 May 2009
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi waves at her supporters as she makes way through the city to file her nomination as a contesting candidate at Rae Bareli, India, Monday, April 6, 2009. India will hold general elections in five phases starting on ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Boston Globe,
6 Apr 2009
Police arrested six members of a hard-line Hindu group on Saturday for attacking and cutting the hair of three couples on Valentine's Day near the Taj Mahal _ India's white-marble monument to love.
Supporters of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
eTaiwan News,
14 Feb 2009
Authorities wielding guns combed villages surrounding the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in the state of Uttar Pradesh, from which seven tigers are believed to have strayed. One of the tigers is believed to have killed at least four people in the last two weeks, ...
A rescuer works his way down with the help of a rope, as a crane digs into the soil during an operation to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot (45-meter) -deep abandoned well in Leharkapurwa village near Agra, about 250 ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Boston Globe,
11 Oct 2008
Heavy rains continued to lash northern and eastern India with 44 people reported killed over the past 24 hours as authorities rushed Tuesday to rescue hundreds of thousands trapped in their homes.
The latest reported deaths brought the toll of ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
Taiwan News,
23 Sep 2008
LUCKNOW, India (AP)- India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that has killed more than 200 children since June, ...
From BISWAJEET BANERJEE,
The Christian Post,
19 Sep 2008