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California: 42 killed in deadliest wildfire in US history; bodies found in burned-out cars, homes
World | Nov 13, 2018, 09:18 AM ISTIn some cases, there were only charred fragments of bone, so small that coroner's investigators used a wire basket to sift and sort them. The search for bodies was continuing.
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23 dead, 6700 buildings go up in flames in California’s most destructive wildfire
World | Nov 11, 2018, 08:43 AM ISTButte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Saturday 14 additional bodies were found, bringing the death toll from the blaze to 23. He said an additional search and rescue team was being brought in to search for remains.
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Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian flee California homes due to wildfire
Hollywood | Nov 10, 2018, 02:13 PM ISTThey were among the thousands forced to evacuate as the fire engulfed large patches of Malibu, Calabasas, Paradise and Thousand Oaks.
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5 dead, 150,000 evacuated as wildfires cause devastation in California
World | Nov 10, 2018, 06:58 AM ISTThe Woolsey Fire, as the blaze is known, has forced 75,000 homes to be evacuated in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
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US Marine veteran kills 12 in California bar, shoots himself dead later
World | Nov 08, 2018, 09:20 PM ISTThe bar was was hosting an event for college students and possibly several hundred young people were inside, said Captain Garo Kuredjian of the Ventura County Sheriff's office.
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Delhi Sikh body President Manjit Singh assaulted in California
World | Aug 26, 2018, 11:30 AM ISTSingh and his family were earlier on Monday attacked allegedly by Khalistan sympathisers at a TV studio in New York, making Saturday’s incident a second of such attack.
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California: Police chief's son arrested for robbery, brutal attack on Sikh man
World | Aug 09, 2018, 02:00 PM ISTThe investigators are trying to determine if the attack was a hate crime. Police arrested 18-year-old Tyrone McAllister and a 16-year-old male juvenile yesterday for the attack on Sahib Singh Natt on the side of a road early morning on August 6 in Manteca.
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United States: Northern California blazes now largest in state history
World | Aug 07, 2018, 08:48 AM ISTHotter weather attributed to climate change is drying out vegetation, creating more intense fires that spread quickly from rural areas to city subdivisions, climate and fire experts say.
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'Go back to your country', 50-year-old Sikh man faces racial attack in US
World | Aug 06, 2018, 12:28 PM ISTThe man was attacked on his head with a road. He however, escaped major injury because of his turban.
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New fire erupts in Northern California; homes threatened
World | Aug 01, 2018, 08:48 AM ISTAbout 60 homes in an old ranching and farming area near Covelo were ordered evacuated as the blaze erupted late in the afternoon.
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Deadly wildfire ravages large swathes of California killing six people, more than seven missing
World | Jul 30, 2018, 05:50 PM ISTThe Carr fire was just 17 per cent contained on Sunday night, having burned over 95,000 acres of land, the US media reported.
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Miracle or something else? NASA camera melts during SpaceX rocket launch, but the photos survived!
May 24, 2018, 11:41 PM ISTOne of the remote cameras melted in a fire sparked by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday but it still managed to snap photos of the liftoff, Space.com reported.
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NASA's InSight Mars lander all set for launch from California and not Florida: All you need to know
May 03, 2018, 06:25 AM ISTNASA will launch its InSight Mission on May 5, the first-ever mission to study the structure of Mars.
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This guy ate raw fish almost every day- until a 5-foot-long tapeworm slithered out of him
Trending | Jan 20, 2018, 11:19 PM ISTThe tapeworm had likely been growing in the man's intestines for at least six months.
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California torture case: Questions raised over home school regulation
World | Jan 18, 2018, 03:04 PM ISTDavid Turpin had been home schooling his children at the residence, which he called the Sandcastle Day School. In the 2016-17 school year, it had an enrollment of six, with one student each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.
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Terrifying video of a couple escaping the mudslides in California goes viral
Trending | Jan 13, 2018, 01:53 PM ISTThe deadly video of the incident is going viral on social media.
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These twins were born in two different years, marking country’s last birth of 2017, first of 2018
Trending | Jan 04, 2018, 02:40 PM ISTMaria Esperanza Flores Rios, a California mom ended 2017 by welcoming one bundle of joy and then kicked off 2018 by giving birth to his twin sister.
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California begins its first historic legal sales of recreational marijuana
World | Jan 02, 2018, 10:22 AM IST"It is probably our busiest day in our seven-year history," said Matt Lucerno, the owner of Buddy's, a dispenser of medical-use marijuana in San Jose that holds the first license issued by California to also sell recreational marijuana.
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At least 2, including gunman, dead in shooting at a business in Southern California
World | Dec 30, 2017, 06:38 AM ISTLong Beach police on Friday called the shooting "workplace violence." They said on Twitter that it has become a murder investigation, and that the suspect is also dead at the scene.
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America: California fires took thousands of homes
News | Dec 07, 2017, 09:56 AM IST