Nearly 200 villages flooded in Bihar as river breaches embankmentPATNA - At least one woman was drowned as nearly 200 villages were flooded in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district after the Bagmati river breached its embankment early Saturday, officials said. Many villages in the state’s Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga districts were also inundated. Free child soldiers fast, UN chief tells NepalKATHMANDU - In his new report on Nepal, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the discharge of child soldiers from Maoist camps “long overdue” and urged the government to do it at a “brisk pace”. Mass. transit authority banning driver cell phones after crash blamed on text-messagingBOSTON — Massachusetts transportation officials announced Wednesday they were immediately banning nearly all mass-transit drivers in Boston from using or even carrying cell phones or other personal digital assistants after a text-messaging trolley driver caused a crash last week that injured nearly 50 people. American soldier charged in shooting death of fellow soldier in northern IraqBAGHDAD — An American soldier has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a fellow soldier north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday. Wife of former Haryana deputy chief minister arrested, granted bailCHANDIGARH - A day after she allegedly swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills in a suicide attempt, Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, the second wife of former Haryana deputy chief minister Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed, was arrested by Mohali police here Friday evening but immediately released on bail. UN fears Nepal Maoists still clinging to military pastKATHMANDU - Almost three years after they ended their guerrilla war against the government and came to power through an election, Nepal’s Maoist party may still be using arms and violence, the UN has said. |
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