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Indian police crack down on tainted milk factories

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 bust tainted blood supply racket in India

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

28 arrested in India for protesting power outages

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
Related Topics: Sonia Gandhi

98 skulls found in dry pond in northern India

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

Sonia Gandhi runs for Indian parliament

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
Related Topics: Sonia Gandhi,  Manmohan Singh,  Rajiv Gandhi,  Bharatiya Janata Party

6 arrested for protesting Valentine's Day in India

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
Related Topics: Bharatiya Janata Party,  McDonald's,  MTV

Tigers kill at least 7 in north India

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, ...

From BISWAJEET BANERJEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 Jan 2009

Indian army works to rescue boy trapped in well

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
Related Topics: Ashok Kumar

Heavy rains pound India; 163 killed over 4 days

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

Bad Vaccines Risk Encephalitis Epidemic in India

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

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