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At least 150 people missing as Himalayan glacier breaks apart and destroys dam

Workers from two power plants are missing and a dam is swept away after water, mud and debris smashed through a valley when a glacier broke.

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2/13/21

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Satellites provide clues on cause of India's Himalayan glacier disaster

By piecing together satellite imagery and footage captured on the ground, we've visualised the path of destruction caused by a glacier collapse in the Indian Himalayas.

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4/22/21

India records world's biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases

India reports 314,835 new cases of the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase recorded anywhere.

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4/23/21

'Newlyweds are being cremated': Bodies burned in car parks as COVID-19 deaths spike in New Delhi

Dramatic aerial photos from New Delhi show bodies burning atop piles of wood in car parks just metres apart, after 306 people die of COVID-19 in 24 hours in India's capital.

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4/23/21

"India reports 314,835 new cases of the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase recorded anywhere."

That's huge, almost unbelievable.

Over 100 million have been vaccinated, but that's not a tenth of the population.

It'll get worse before it gets better, I'm afraid.

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From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)

4/24/21

It was a mix of complacency and lack of preparation that did it.

'More dangerous, more powerful, more virulent': How did things get so bad in India?

It took only a few weeks for COVID-19 complacency to turn into an overwhelming sense of despair, anguish, and anger. Now India, drowning under a surge of cases, "feels like a country that is broken".

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4/24/21

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said:
It was a mix of complacency and lack of preparation that did it.

I agree.

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5/7/21

Exhausted, traumatised, and surrounded by death. Now help is at hand for the men working day and night to burn India's COVID victims

An innovative crowdfunding initiative is launched in India's capital to help overworked undertakers, who earn less than $7 a day, as the country reports a record daily rise in COVID-19 cases.

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5/7/21

It's really sad to read what is happening in India and to realise that the reality is very likely to be much worse.

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From: Jenifer (Zarknorph)

5/11/21

Much worse...

Bodies wash up on banks of the Ganges, as the WHO issues a warning on India's COVID strain

The gruesome discovery on the banks of the Ganges is the latest in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in India - the point of origin of a strain of coronavirus the WHO has labelled a global concern.