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Jaipur, India: Increased cases of chikungunya confirmed

Jaipur: There is a significant rise of Chikungunya cases in the Pink City, which is already facing spurt in malaria and dengue cases during the ongoing monsoon season. According to the health department’s records, in the microbiology lab of SMS Hospital from January till now, 29 cases of chikungunya have been detected. Read article

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Sibsagar, India: Japanese Encephalitis claims the lives of 22 people

At least 22 people have died of the disease in Assam’s Sivasagar district.As many as 28 people are currently undergoing treatment at different block Public Health Centres (PHCs) in the district. Read article

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Kashmir, India: Tourists killed in bus accident

Two people, including a student, were killed on the spot and 30 others injured Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir when a school bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge, officials said.”The bus went out of driver’s control in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The bus was on an excursion to the tourist […]

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Goa, India: Travel Crime Alert

The popular tourist destination of Goa in Western India is in the grip of a crime spree directed at visitors. The British Foreign Office has issued a warning following an alarming increase in bag-snatching and petty crime since the beginning of 2012.The advice says:”Travellers staying in hotels on the smaller roads in the Candolim-Calangute belt […]

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India: Air India strike upsets expats’ vacation plans

The vacation travel plans of many Indian expatriates in Kuwait have gone haywire following the ongoing strike by the Air India pilots as India’s flag carrier sharply curtailed its schedules to south Indian destinations. Many passengers booked on Air India now look for alternative airline bookings paying exorbitantly high fares as India’s carrier was forced […]

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India: missing Israeli tourist rescued by Israeli search team

A young Israeli tourist missing since Friday was rescued from a forest by police and a search team that had come down from his country, police sources in Kullu said from the scenic Himachal Pradesh valley. Dan Bosrobitz, 23, was traced to the forests of Grahan, some 45km from Kullu. “We have rescued Dan Bosrobitz […]

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Adarsh Nagar, India: Slovakian tourist arrested

Jaipur, Jun 19 (PTI) A Slovakian national was arrested for being found in illegal possession of a satellite phone here. Slovakian Peter Hammer was arrested yesterday by local police on a tip-off by intelligence agencies that a satellite phone was activated in Adarsh Nagar locality on June 16, following which the police was able to […]

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Kullu, India: Young Israeli tourist rescued

Shimla, June 19: A young Israeli tourist missing since Friday was rescued from a forest by police and a search team that had come down from his country, police sources in Kullu said from the scenic Himachal Pradesh valley. Dan Bosrobitz, 23, was traced to the forests of Grahan, some 45km from Kullu. Read article

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Maharashtra, India: Jaundice outbreak claims the life of 12 people/3,000 affected

Kolhapur (Maharashtra): More than 500 new cases of jaundice have been reported from the textile town of Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district in the last four days and the disease has killed at least 12 people in the last one month, officials said on Monday. Kolhapur health department suspect that the consumption of contaminated water of […]

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India: Rabies claim the life of a British women

Jerusalem: Israel`s health ministry has said that its nationals travelling to India should be vaccinated prophylactically against rabies. The ministry`s recommendation came after a report that a woman who returned to England from India died after being bitten by a rabid dog. Read article

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