Mass-evacuations save lives as cyclone slams into India and Pakistan
Two people died in India before Cyclone Biparjoy actually made landfall, while in Pakistan, not a single death was reported.
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Two people died in India before Cyclone Biparjoy actually made landfall, while in Pakistan, not a single death was reported.
The South Asian nations evacuated more than 170,000 people from coastal areas ahead of Cyclone Biparjoy's arrival.
Experts say the world's warming oceans, including the Arabian Sea where Cyclone Biparjoy is churning, are producing more and more powerful storms.
"When we reached the house and opened the door, we understood it was a case of murder and the suspect tried to hide the evidence," said one senior police officer.
Nearly 300 people were killed after a train collision Friday night in India -- one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has the latest on the investigation.
India's top criminal investigation agency is likely to probe the disaster in Odisha, which was one of the deadliest rail crashes in the country's history.
A train derailment in India killed hundreds of people and injured over 1,000 other passengers in the country's worst rail disaster this century. Families are now demanding answers. Holly Williams reports.
The error caused a train in India to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train on Friday night.
The collision and derailment of several passenger trains in eastern India has left hundreds dead, with many hundreds more injured. We get the latest from our British broadcast partner, BBC correspondent Archana Shukla.
Footage from the accident site showed bodies lined up on tracks and the injured being shifted to hospitals while rescuers desperately looked through the overturned and jumbled metal train compartments.
At least 280 people have died and more than 900 others have been injured in a train collision in India, one of the worst rail disasters in recent history. Frantic search efforts remain underway. Ramy Inocencio reports.
Officials said at least 120 people were killed, and another 850 injured, when several trains collided in eastern India on Friday.
Images broadcast on local stations showed smashed train compartments torn open with blood-stained holes of twisted metal, and scores of passengers lying beside the tracks.
The victim was a 16-year-old who worked part-time as a tutor to help her family earn a living.
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Wildlife officials shared a video of the albino cobra being released into the wild. It shows the creature slithering out of a paper bag and into a forested area.
Myanmar's rulers put the death toll from Cyclone Mocha at about 20, but with hard-hit areas cut off and allegations of an aid "blockade," there's fear it could be much higher.
Hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable, low-lying areas of Myanmar and Bangladesh were evacuated ahead of the storm, likely saving many lives.
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An official said it appeared the boat capsized due to overcrowding.
The snakes were discovered with a chameleon by customs agents at Chennai Airport.
New data released from the United Nations shows India is expected to surpass China as the world's most populated country in mid-2023. Bradley Schurman, founder and CEO of The Super Age, joined CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers and Anne-Marie Green to discuss the factors behind the shift and what role India could play in the global economy as its population grows.
China and India have long had the largest populations on the planet, but in recent decades, vastly different birth rate trends have tipped the balance.