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Boy from Mumbai’s Ghatkopar drowns in Godavari during visit to Nashik temple

The boy was travelling with a 40-member group from Uttar Pradesh currently settled in Mumbai. The tragedy unfolded when four boys from the group stepped into the river even as the women in their party moved aside to change clothes.

43 dead, dozens missing after illegal tap on Niger delta pipeline turns fatal

The episode is only the latest in a long-running pattern of deadly pipeline tapping across the Niger Delta, a swampy, resource-rich region that has powered Nigeria's economy for generations.

Tim Cook steps back, but Apple keeps him close

Apple transitions leadership as John Ternus assumes CEO role, while Tim Cook remains executive chair guiding strategy globally.

Nepal flood death toll 1,127; authorities have hard time returning bodies of glacier collapse victims to grieving families

Recovering bodies is only part of the challenge. Post-mortem and legal identification procedures have been completed for 1,113 of the recovered bodies, but only 95 have actually been returned to grieving families. To speed the process, authorities have published details of 911 unidentified bodies on the Nepal Police website.

Nepal Flood: Hundreds feared trapped in hydropower tunnels; 1,000 people dead so far; 4,000 missing

More than 11,000 people have been pulled to safety so far in flood-hit Nepal. Only 279 workers have been pulled out of hydropower project sites in the ongoing rescue and relief operations. As many as 639 people are said to be still stuck at those sites.

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