The Bishop of Waterford has written to Catholic schools in his diocese to say yoga isn't suitable for a parish school setting.
Fri, 18 Oct, 2019
A large explosion at a fireworks factory in northern India has killed at least 16 people and caused the building to collapse.
Wed, 04 Sep, 2019
An Indian restaurant in Dublin 4 has been ordered to pay a customer €3,000 over the owner’s refusal to serve the man food.
Tue, 20 Aug, 2019
At least 20 people have been killed after a bus fell into a deep gorge on a mountainous road in northern India, police have said.
Thu, 20 Jun, 2019
The death toll from an explosion at a thermal power plant in northern India has climbed to 26, officials said.
Thu, 02 Nov, 2017
At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion on Wednesday at a thermal power plant in northern India, officials said.
Wed, 01 Nov, 2017
Nineteen people have drowned after a boat crowded with construction workers capsized in the Yamuna River in northern India and a search is under way for missing passengers, police said.
Thu, 14 Sep, 2017
An Indian court has sentenced two men to death and jailed another two for life over a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed.
Thu, 07 Sep, 2017
Mobs have rampaged across an Indian town, leaving 12 people dead and buildings in flames, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers, according to officials.
Fri, 25 Aug, 2017
A court in northern India has convicted a flamboyant guru of raping two of his followers.
Devastating floods triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 950 people and displaced close to 40 million people across northern India, southern Nepal and northern Bangladesh in recent days.
Thu, 24 Aug, 2017
At least 173 people have died and millions more have been displaced across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh after heavy monsoon rains unleashed landslides and floods.
Mon, 14 Aug, 2017
Heavy monsoon rains have caused landslides and floods that have killed at least 160 people and displaced millions of others across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh.
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Mon, 21 Nov, 2016
Police in northern India have arrested two men for allegedly raping a young woman for the second time in three years. She had refused to withdraw the first case against them.
Thu, 21 Jul, 2016
Wed, 20 Jul, 2016
At least 19 people have died and another six have been blinded after drinking tainted alcohol in northern India over the weekend, police said.
Mon, 18 Jul, 2016
Thompson Holidays has the Greek destinations of Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos on offer in August at decent prices.
Sat, 09 Jul, 2016
Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Pakistan have killed at least 55 people and rescuers were trying to help thousands of survivors including some cut off by a landslide in a mountain valley, officials said.
Tue, 05 Apr, 2016
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Tue, 29 Dec, 2015
Two brothers in northern India beheaded their teenage sister and carried her head through their village for having an affair with a cousin.
Wed, 19 Aug, 2015
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Sun, 15 Feb, 2015
Authorities are investigating how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.
Thu, 15 Jan, 2015
Wed, 14 Jan, 2015
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Sat, 27 Dec, 2014
A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
Tue, 02 Dec, 2014
A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.
Mon, 01 Dec, 2014
AVE we Irish got a taste for spices or what! Thirty years ago, when I first started the Ballymaloe Cookery School, garlic was still considered by many to be daring and exotic.
Sat, 22 Nov, 2014
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in northern India and Pakistan, officials said.
Mon, 08 Sep, 2014
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in northern India and Pakistan, officials said today.
Sun, 07 Sep, 2014
Dan MacCarthy is roughing it on a jeep safari in rugged Bandhavgarh National Park in northern India, where he hopes to get a glimpse of an elusive tiger or, maybe, two.
Sun, 03 Aug, 2014
ENGLAND: Half of people in Britain do not know the First World War began 100 years ago next month, according to The Daily Star.
Wed, 23 Jul, 2014
Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India today aboard a special flight, officials said.
Sat, 05 Jul, 2014
Thousands of people enraged by power cuts during an extreme heatwave have been rioting across northern India, officials said.
Sat, 07 Jun, 2014
Police say three detained suspects have confessed to the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins who were found hanging from a tree in northern India last week.
Mon, 02 Jun, 2014
Sun, 01 Jun, 2014
Police arrested a third suspect today over the gang rape and killing of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, as a top state official said he was recommending a federal investigation into a case that has triggered national outrage.
Sat, 31 May, 2014
Police say they have arrested a fifth suspect and are hunting for two others in the gang rape of two teenage cousins who were later found hanging from a tree this week in northern India.
Three men have been arrested in northern India for attacking the mother of a rape victim after she refused to withdraw her police complaint.
Fri, 30 May, 2014
An express train slammed into a parked freight train in northern India, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to a heap of torn and twisted metal, officials said.
Tue, 27 May, 2014
President Barack Obama granted an audience to Tibet’s Dalai Lama yesterday over the strong objections from China that the US was meddling in its affairs.
Sat, 22 Feb, 2014
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Thu, 16 Jan, 2014
A tiger prowling for food has killed seven people in northern India in the past two weeks, forcing thousands of terrified villagers to stay inside while hunters try to kill the animal, authorities said today.
Wed, 15 Jan, 2014
India’s €35bn treasure dream turns to dust
Sat, 16 Nov, 2013
India has ended a search for treasure underneath a 19th century fort after finding only a few bones and terracotta bricks but none of the gold predicted by a Hindu holy man’s dream.
Fri, 15 Nov, 2013
Police in northern India say a batch of toxic bootleg alcohol has killed at least 32 people, mostly poor labourers, and made dozens more ill.
Sat, 19 Oct, 2013
Archaeologists have begun digging for treasure beneath a 19th century fort in northern India after a popular Hindu holy man said a former king appeared to him in a dream and told him about it.
Fri, 18 Oct, 2013
WATER is never far from the news these days. This summer, northern India experienced one of its heaviest monsoon seasons in 80 years, leaving more than 800 people dead and forcing another 100,000 from their homes.
Mon, 23 Sep, 2013
A man was beheaded and his girlfriend beaten to death in an “honour killing” in northern India after they eloped, police said.
Fri, 20 Sep, 2013
An Indian boy has died after being attacked by a gang in a row over kite-flying from the rooftops of Delhi.
Mon, 19 Aug, 2013
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