Tag: India
8 workers killed in building collapse
No fewer than eight workers died when a portion of a building under construction collapsed in the western Indian city…
Hindu radicals beat Muslim women over beef rumour
A report said that suspected Hindu radicals in India’s central state of Madhya Pradesh assaulted two Muslim women on suspicion…
Lightning strikes 66 dead in India
At least 66 people were killed by lightning in India within 24 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. Forty-six deaths were…
30 dead as bus falls into ravine in India
A bus skidded off a hill road into a ravine in north-eastern India killing 30 passengers, police said Wednesday. The…
India arrests Nigerian who mailed $720k worth of cocaine
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in a joint operation with the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police, has arrested…
World’s major problem: Too many young people
New York Times: At no point in recorded history has our world been so demographically lopsided, with old people concentrated…
Man kills wife, 7 children, others with knife
A 35-year-old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family including seven children with a butcher’s knife before committing suicide…
Minister celebrates Adekuoroye’s wrestling feat
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung has congratulated 2014 Commonwealth gold medalist, Odunayo Adekuoroye on her victory…
Nigerian raids Indian’s bank account
The Times of India has reported how a Nigerian fraudster duped a Hyderabad city based techie to the tune of…
In India, Buhari proffers solution to Africa’s problem
On Thursday, Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari in faraway New Delhi declared that Nigeria and other African countries must work harder…
Indian girls aged 2 and 5 ‘gang-raped’ – Police
Two Indian girls aged two-and-a-half and five years old were raped in separate incidents in New Delhi overnight, with at…
NFF mourns late Okugbe
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, on Saturday expressed shock at the death of ace journalist, Felix Osagie Okugbe. He died…
Indian aristocrat’s grandchildren win long battle for riches
The grandchildren of a glamorous Indian aristocrat who personified a lost era of wealth and privilege before her death in…
“Office boy vacancy” attracts 2.3 million applications
More than 2.3 million people have applied to be general assistants in regional government offices in northern India, officials say…
Saudi Arabia diplomat accused of rape withdrawn from India
A Saudi Arabian Diplomat, identified as Majed-Hassan Ashoor, the First Secretary at the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi, accused of…
Diezani cheated Nigeria over $15b oil sale to India
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur R. Ghanashyam, has revealed the dubious practice by former Minister of Petroleum Resources,…
At N283bn, Nigeria’s census costlier than that of India or China
By Ademola Adegbamigbe China and India have a staggering population of over one billion people each and they pretty much…
India set to overtake China as most populous country – UN
United Nations World Population Prospects report said on Wednesday that India would in six years sooner than previously forecast overtake…
Aisha Buhari urges Nigerians to embrace yoga
Wife of Nigeria’s president, Hajia Aisha Buhari, on Sunday in Abuja urged Nigerians to embrace Yoga to enhance their physical…
Nigeria, India trade volume hits $16.36bn
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. Ajjampur Ghanashyam, said on Saturday that the bilateral trade volume between India and…
India lands jet fighter on highway as part of trial
India Air Force (IAF) on Thursday landed a jet fighter on a highway close to New Delhi, the first of…
21 die as bus falls from bridge in India
Police on Monday said no fewer than 21 people were burnt to death and 13 others injured after a bus…
Indian farmers protest against Modi’s land reform
India’s beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday led thousands of angry farmers in a protest in the capital against…
Indian village gets ‘world’s cheapest bottled water’
Charity workers have teamed with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world’s cheapest…
India’s concerned Christians pray for peace after attacks
As they filed out of a cathedral in the Indian capital on Palm Sunday, worshippers expressed fear and dismay over…
Police in India shocked after finding colleagues in brothel raid
Police in eastern Indian were left red-faced when a raid on a sex district discovered four of their own along…
18 arrested in India after mob lynches rape suspect
Police in India charged 18 people on Sunday after a frenzied mob stormed a prison and lynched a man accused…
Indian city under curfew after mob lynches rape suspect
Authorities in a northeastern Indian city said Friday they had imposed a round-the-clock curfew, a day after a rape suspect…
Delhi rapist blames victim for being out at night
One of the men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of an Indian student that shocked the world has said…
Nigerian woman latest victim in India’s rape capital
Police in Delhi arrested four men on Friday in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a Nigerian woman in a…