A bus accident in India has cost the lives of at least 26 students. The driver and two teachers were killed when the school bus hit the road in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, reports Indian media.
The 28 member states of the European Union granted their citizenship to 995,000 people in 2016. That was 841,000 a year earlier. More than one in eight naturalized newcomers came from an EU country. This is shown by figures from the European statistical office Eurostat.
At least 500 train passengers in India have been scared to death when the 22 wagons in which they were parked rolled over a length of 13 kilometers at high speed of a slope. The train started to move due to a technical error. Eventually the colossus came to a standstill after bystanders threw sticks and stones on the track to slow down the train.
The police in India are diligently looking for the monkey that stole a baby in Orissa. The child's body was later found lifeless in a well.
One of the most important tourist attractions in India, the Taj Mahal, is going to limit the visit time to the enormous crowds. Visitors are not allowed to spend more than three hours in the huge white marble mausoleum in the future.
Indian village councils that impose severe penalties for marriages between people from different castes are punished. The Supreme Court of India has ruled that the councils should no longer function as a court.
South Korean steelmakers are shooting up on the stock market Monday after claims of a deal with the US.
Royal Dutch Shell, according to energy experts, is threatening to lose the exploitation of the large gas supply for the Australian coast from the Japanese Inpex.
In Delhi, a 30-year-old man was murdered by three restaurant staff after he complained about the quality of the food. This is reported by the police against the Press Trust of India.
The British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn wants Britain to form a customs union with the European Union after Brexit. The union should avoid levies on trade with Europe and ensure that no physical border is needed between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
A newly-married Indian died after a wedding gift exploded on opening. His grandmother also died in the explosion.
Bollywood legend Sridevi (54) died in Dubai after a heart attack, according to the British newspaper The Independent. Sridevi, who is actually called Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan, is one of the biggest female stars in India. She was in Dubai at a wedding of her cousin.
A newly married man in India and his grandmother were killed because a wedding gift exploded on opening. The bride was seriously injured.
Nine pupils were killed in India when they were hit by a SUV that drove far too fast when crossing a busy road. The children were on their way home from school when the accident happened at Muzaffarpur, according to Indian media.
Doctors in India have succeeded on Valentine's Day to remove a very large tumor from the head of a 31-year-old man. The operation was kept secret because the chances were that it would fail. 'It looked like the man had stacked two heads together,' said a doctor about the man before the operation.
Digital crime costs the world more and more. The worldwide damage is 600 billion dollars per year, almost 490 billion euros, or nearly 1 percent of the world economy. This is shown by a study by the security guard McAfee and the research bureau CSIS.
In India, 18 people were killed after a hotel collapsed as a result of an explosion. The blast took place Friday evening in the city of Beawar in the west of the country.
An Indian woman was killed because her hair got stuck in the wheel during a round of carting. The woman was scalped by the power of the movement, reports the Indian newspaper Hindustan Times.
In the island state of Maldives, the state of emergency was declared during an escalating power struggle between the government of President Yameen Abdul Gayoom and the opposition. The government in the capital Malé has the order of the Supreme Court to let a series of opposition leaders be ignored. On Monday, the emergency state for fifteen days was declared.
The European Commission imposes final import duties on cast iron from China.
In India, anger was caused by the brutal rape of an eight-month-old girl in Shakurbasti, in the northwest of New Delhi. The police have arrested the suspected perpetrator.
A minibus has been poured from a bridge in western India. Thirteen people were killed, seven of whom are children, reports the police. Three people survived the accident and were wounded to the hospital.
In the event of a major explosion of a truck that was loaded with explosives, several deaths and approximately eighty injuries were reported to have occurred Saturday in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul. The bomb truck exploded according to local media at a checkpoint of security forces, near a building that was previously the Ministry of the Interior and close to a large hospital.
The approaching premiere of a controversial Bollywood film leads to riots in India. The police have acted against rioters in several places.
A man accused of a series of attacks in India, which killed 56 people, was detained on Monday in New Delhi. Abdul Subhan Qureshi, known as the 'Bin Laden of India', was arrested after a brief gunfight with the police. He was considered the most wanted terrorist in the country.
A 45-year-old scooter driver was beaten to death by a group of traffic enforcement officials in the Indian city of Madhyamgram on Saturday because he did not wear a helmet. The victim would have refused to pay a bribe as a fine.
Seventeen people were killed by a fire in a shed in India. The fire raged in an industrial district on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi.
In a former warehouse of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the Indonesian capital Jakarta Tuesday a big fire broke out. A maritime museum is currently housed in the building. No one was injured by the fire, because employees and visitors could be evacuated in time. An important part of the collection has probably been destroyed.
Andhra Pradesh becomes the first Indian state that will legally prosecute brothel visitors. With this measure, the authorities hope to restrict the sexual exploitation of women and children.
Accountant PwC is banned for two years on the Indian financial market. The office missed a $ 1.7 billion fraud case. PwC is not allowed to carry out book checks of listed companies during those years.
