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At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
New Delhi, Feb 11 (EFE/EPA).- Roses were seen in full bloom Thursday at the Mughal Gardens of the Indian presidential palace in New Delhi, which is set to open for public visit from Feb. 12 onward. The Mughal Gardens cover an area of 15 acres and are homes to 128 kinds of roses. (Camera: HARISH TYAGI).B-ROLL OF THE MUGHAL GARDENS OF THE INDIAN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN NEW DELHI, INDIA.
San Francisco, Jul 23 (EFE/EPA).- The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco reopened Wednesday, joining the list of reopened public amenities inside Golden Gate Park.The oldest public Japanese garden in the US remained closed Since March 17 due to the Shelter in Place Order, which was issued for the coronavirus pandemic. The Tea Garden currently has a limit of 100 guests and has set up one-way pathways to adhere to social distancing measures. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO). SHOT LIST: VISITORS WALK THROUGH THE REOPENED JAPANESE TEA GARDEN AT GOLDEN GATE PARK IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, US.
Authorities use elephants and bulldozers to evict hundreds of villagers living illegally in the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest area in India's northeastern state of Assam. IMAGES
A group of tourists got a little too up close and personal with an angry elephant which began charging towards their jeep in India's Jim Corbett National Park on Saturday. The elephant is seen walking near two smaller elephants when it spots the safari tourists and starts storming towards them while trumpeting. The driver rapidly accelerates and avoids any nasty pachyderm encounters. Jim Corbett National Park is a wildlife sanctuary situated in northern India's Uttarakhand State, it is home to animals ranging from wild elephants, birds, tigers and leopards, as well as Bengal tigers.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a surprise stopover in Pakistan to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, in the first such high-level meeting between the nuclear-armed rival nations in over a decade. Mana Rabiee reports.