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Devesh Adivasi, a 7-year-old boy from rural Madhya Pradesh, in central India, has some very unusual best friends. For the past four years, he has been going into the jungle near his..... Read more via INFORMATION NIGERIA – https://ift.tt/2BhrtXZ Get More Nigeria Metro News

Elephants in India, numbering about 25,000 in the wild, are an endangered species. While revered as a cultural and religious icon, they are also hounded when they wander into human settlements, damaging crops and homes, and trampling people....... Read more via Plus TV Africa –...

A blast at a religious ceremony in India’s Punjab state Sunday killed at least three people and injured 10, police said. Media reports said two armed men on a motorcycle forced their way into a building where the Nirankari spiritual group was meeting...... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

Concerns about caste-based violence in India are growing after a 13-year-old girl from a lower caste was beheaded in one of the country's southern states last week, with her alleged assailant coming from a higher, majority caste, according to police..... Read more via CNN –...

A 96-year-old woman set a record by scoring 98 marks out of 100 in the literacy exam in southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said Thursday.... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2qn1Ka9 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 100-year-old grandmother at her home. The alleged assault took place on Tuesday while the victim was alone at her home in Chakulia village, Nadia, West Bengal, police say..... Read more via My Joy Online – https://ift.tt/2O5Uo4s Get...

Armed police at Indian airports have been told to cut down on smiling, with officials blaming the 2001 US terror attacks partly on an excessive focus on friendliness, local media reported on Tuesday.... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2C28L7v Get More Nigeria Metro News

An Indian bus driver has been suspended - for letting a monkey "drive" his bus. This is despite not one of the 30-or-so passengers on board the vehicle in southern Karnataka state complaining about their furry chauffeur..... Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2zUBHgf Get More Nigeria...

India agreed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 surface to air missile systems on Friday. The Kremlin said, as New Delhi disregarded U.S. warnings, that such a purchase could trigger sanctions under U.S. law..... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2QybbPe Get more World News

Days after the Union Health Ministry ordered an inquiry into the Type-2 polio virus contamination detected in the vials used for immunisation in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana and ordered for additional immunisation in the three States, the ministry on Wednesday issued a statement...

Twenty years old Indian tennis player, Aryan Goveas has confessed his love for the city of Lagos, Nigeria, a reason … Read more via P.M.EXPRESS – https://ift.tt/2y8oKgL Get More Nigeria Metro News

In an encouraging example of organ and tissue donation, a family from Kharghar donated the bones of their loved one, apart from her corneas and skin..... Read more via The Hindu – https://ift.tt/2NGEu5a Get more World News

Adultery is no longer a criminal offence, India’s top court has ruled. The law, which is 158-year-old, states that any man who has sex with a married woman, without the permission of her husband, was guilty of the criminal act of adultery. The law dictated that the woman … Read more via...

Indian Navy officer Abhilash Tomy suffered a serious back injury on Saturday when his 10-metre boat, Thuriya, de-masted ... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2Iekxgd Get more World News

India is one step closer to a total ban on the Islamic custom of so-called “instant divorce” after … Read more via Time – https://ift.tt/2PSPA3L Get more World News

In a landmark move, the Indian government Wednesday approved a ban on triple talaq, a prevalent practice of instant divorce common among the country's minority Muslims, by passing an executive order..... Read more via Ladun Liadi's Blog – https://ift.tt/2xoFnVQ Get more World News

Indian businessman Dadarao Bilhore fixes a hole in the road in Mumbai – something he has done at … Read more via Capital News – https://ift.tt/2Ms0085 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Officials said 49 people were killed and another 40 were injured when a bus fell into a gorge in a hilly region in southern India on Tuesday. The overcrowded state-run bus was carrying... Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2oYQLTS Get More Nigeria Metro News

India’s supreme court has decriminalised homosexual sex in a landmark judgment for gay rights. A five-judge bench of the country’s highest... Read more via The Guardian – https://ift.tt/2PGMDTw Get more World News

historic verdict, India’s Supreme Court ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2oHdlzU Get more World News