Day: August 10, 2015

Temple stampede in Jharkhand leaves 10 dead

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Temple stampede in Jharkhand leaves 10 dead

At least 10 people have been killed and 20 injured in a stampede at a temple in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials say. Pilgrims have been marking a Hindu religious festival in Deoghar town. It happened as pilgrims tried to make their way into the complex, a district official told BBC Hindi. Deadly stampedes are common during Indian religious festivals, which attract large crowds with few safety measures in place. The stampede at…

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Foxconn Could Make India Its Next Manufacturing Base

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Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has signed a $5 billion deal to set up R&D and hi-tech manufacturing facilities in western India within the next five years. The $5 billion pledge is the largest foreign investment into India’s tech manufacturing sector and a boost for thegovernment’s “Make in India” program designed to spur domestic manufacturing. The Taiwan-based firm, which manufactures for a host of global device brands like Apple, BlackBerry, Amazon, Motorola, Xiaomi…

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Modi comes up with rebel cricketing body blueprint

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Modi comes up with rebel cricketing body blueprint

Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has made claims of ‘rewriting the history in sport’ by putting forward a ‘blueprint’ to overthrow the International Cricket Council, cricket’s current world governing body, by bringing in a cricketing system of his own into existence. “We’re talking about another cricketing system. There is a blueprint out there, it’s got my rubber stamp on it. I have been involved in it. I say it for the first time,…

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