BHOPAL: A 65-year-old Dalit woman in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district displayed extraordinary courage when she fought off a jackal for nearly 30 minutes and ultimately strangled it using a strip of her sari. Surajia Bai Jatav, a widow and small-scale farmer from...

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THANE: A chlorine gas leak at the STEM Water Distribution plant in Bhiwandi late Monday night triggered panic and left five workers hospitalized with breathing difficulties, officials said. The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. when a valve on the chlorine pipeline,...

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THANE: A 62-year-old woman was killed and her 26-year-old relative injured after a portion of a building balcony collapsed on them in Mumbra’s Lucky Compound early Tuesday, officials said. The victims, identified as Nahid Jamali and Ilma Jamali of Kausa, were walking...

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WASHINGTON: A 52-year-old Pakistani-origin man, Muhammad Chaudhry, has been arrested by US immigration authorities for a decades-long fraud that included falsely claiming veteran benefits worth nearly $450,000, officials said. Chaudhry, described by investigators as a...

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NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday voiced concern over rising tensions in the Middle East after Israeli airstrikes hit Qatar’s capital, Doha, prompting warnings of escalation from regional leaders. “We have seen reports about the Israeli strikes in Doha earlier today. We are...

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LOS ANGELES: More than 60 shipping containers tumbled into the water Tuesday morning from the cargo vessel Mississippi at the Port of Long Beach, disrupting terminal operations but causing no injuries, officials said. The incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m., when...

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