February 2016: India research

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1344-1345 – Famine in India during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughiuq. Wikipedia .

1396-1407 – The Durga Devi famine. Wikipedia.

1510 – Portugal ruled Goa since 1510. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

1599-1947 – The history of British India, a chronology. John F Riddich 2006. Google books.

1630-1631 – The Deccan famine. Wikipedia.

13 May 1648 – The construction of the Red Fort in Delhi was completed. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1661 – Famine in India, lack of rainfall for two years. Wikipedia.

Dec 1745 – The ship was ordered to escort a convoy for Gambia, the to pick up an East India company fleet heading for India, the “Harwich” voyage would last five years for John Newton. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

1748-1868 – The East India company raised by Robert Clive in India in 1756, as the Bengal European regiment. They went to England in 1868. Fought in Delhi in 1857. The oldest of the Indian regiments raise in India was in 1748 the Madras European regiment. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p24).

1750 – The British East India company controls Bengal and Bihar opium growing districts of India. British shipping opium trade out of Calcutta to China. PBS Frontline.

2 Jan 1757 – British troops occupy Calcutta India. (Chch Star NZ. 2 Jan 2015. Today in history).

1769-1773 – The great Bengal famine of 1770. 10 million people died, one third of the population. In Bangladesh and India. Wikipedia.

1775 – Indian ancestry. East India company. Back to 1775. Historian. British library records for the East India company aka the India office. India office records collection. Findmypast.com. (Who do you think you are. The genealogy handbook BBC UK 2014).

1789-92 – The Doji Bara famine or skull famine. 11 million people died. Wikipedia.

1793 – The British East India company has a monopoly on the opium trade, poppy growers in India are banned from selling opium to other trade companies. PBS Frontline.

1817 – There was a major outbreak of cholera in Calcutta. The disease spread throughout India. 10,000 British troops died. Hundreds of thousands of people died throughout India .(Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1837-38 – The Agri famine. 1 million people died. Wikipedia.

1839 – In India’s city of Coringa a huge 40 foot tidal wave, caused by a cyclone, wiped out the harbour city, that was never rebuilt. 20,000 vessels in the bay were destroyed and 300,000 people were killed. (Timeline internet).

25 Nov 1839 – A cyclone slammed into India destroying the port city of Coringa. 300,000 people were killed. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 25 Nov 2015).

1845-1880 – Peter Gray. Famine and land in Ireland and India 1845-1880. The historical journal 49 no 1. March 2006.

Mid 20^th century – So many children died, but very few records exist. People died and there was no register of their death. No records exist? Jharera India. Growing cotton. Mathura holy city. Records of all the Ganatras over the centuries. (Who do you think you are. Genealogy handbook. BBC UK (c)2014).

16 July 1859 – India. Nelson Examiner and Chronicle NZ. Papers past.

1865-66 – Odisha archives to publish book on the Odisha famine. Times of india 1 Aug 2015. Bhubaneswar archives Orissa famine.

1866 – Australia’s Yelverton Jarrah sawmill opened in 1866 about the same time as Ben Masons sawmill. The timber was shipped to the overseas market, Calcutta India. Loading of boats with timber at Lockeville was a slow job. (Western pioneers ©1980 JE Hammond).

1874-1878 – Famine in India during 1874 it became more severe over the years. Some 6 million people died especially in south India between 1876 and 1878. (Asia making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney).

16 April 1891 – India and opium. Auckland Star NZ. Papers Past.

4 Dec 1891 – Anglo Indian empire, the opium traffic. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

15 Feb 1892 – Anglo Indian empire. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

15 Feb 1892 – Opium traffic in India. Auckland Star NZ. Papers Past.

17 Feb 1892 – Anglo Indian empire. Marlborough Express N. Papers Past.

3 July 1893 – India’s opium trade. NZ Herald. Papers Past

3 July 1893 – India’s opium trade. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

3 July 1893 – Indian opium trade. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

28 Feb 1895 – Opium in India UPA. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

12 June 1897 – Assam. Timeline of earthquakes.

12 June 1897 – The great Assam earthquake, destroyed buildings in Calcutta, 200 miles away. The 8.7 earthquake caused landslides and flooding, which killed thousands of people. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

12 June 1897 – An 8.3 earthquake killed 1,500 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

27 June 1897 – Assam 1,500 people were killed in an 8.3 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

4 April 1905 – In Kangra India a 7.5 earthquake killed 19,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

17 Feb 1906 – The oddest thing in India. Oamaru Mail NZ. Papers past.

26 Feb 1910 – The Indian budget. Nelson Evening Mail NZ. Papers Past.

1911 – Opium was cultivated in Bengal India and exported to China. It earned lots of money. In return silk was imported and re exported to the UK. Corruption and the East India company. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

3 Jan 1911 – Indian opium exports. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

3 Jan 1911 – India and opium. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

24 Aug 1912 – Opium evil in India. Ashburton Guardian NZ. Papers Past.

26 Aug 1912 – Opium smoking in India. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

26 Aug 1912 – Opium smoking in India. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

20 Dec 1912 – Opium in India. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

6 Jan 1913 – India’s opium traffic. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

3 March 1913 – Indian budget. Nelson Evening Mail NZ. Papers Past.

4 March 1913 – Indian finance. Otago Daily Times NZ. Papers Past.

4 March 1913 – The Indian budget. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

29 April 1913 – Indian opium export. Marlborough Express NZ. Papers Past.

12 Oct 1915 – German spies in India. Om Creagh gen retired late. The Times London UK.

25 Jan 1919 – Destruction of India opium. Marlborough Express NZ. Papers Past.

1922 – Agha Hasan Abedi was born in Lucknow India.

1925 – Delhi intel bureau, London office Indian political intel inside M15 HQ. Travelling to India in 1925 was Percy Glading who was later jailed for spying in Britain for the Soviet Union. (Christopher Andrew. UK (c)2009 M15).

23 Feb 1928 – Opium in Calcutta. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

22 Oct 1928 – Opium in India. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

22 Oct 1928 – Opium in India. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

1929 – M15 travel to India, Philip Spratt who was accused of involvement in a Soviet led plot to overthrow British rule, during the Meerut conspiracy, trial in 1929. (Christopher Andrew. (c)2009 M15 UK).

1930s – M15 and IPI tracked Comintern agent Narendra Nath Bhattacharyi aka MN Roy. Also British Communist party, Indian Communist Party Palme Dutt. Acted as a Comintern agent, Dutt’s younger brother Clemens led the Indian section of the British Communist party. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1930s – M15 collaborated with IPI and the Delhi IB to keep watch on leaders in India, Nehru and Gandhi. Nehru went to the UK in the 1930s, then M15 monitored the death of his wife from TB in 1936, at a hospital in Switzerland. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

16 Jan 1934 – An 8.4 earthquake in India and Nepal killed 10,700 people. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 16 Jan 2015).

14 Oct 1940 – Sir Cliff Richard aka Harry Webb was born in Lucknow India. Paedophile suspect. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 14 Oct 2015).

31 March 1942 – Jawaharlal Nehru foremost Hindu Socialist. NZ Herald. Papers Past NZ.

1943 – The Bengal famine. 1.5 to 7 million people died. Wikipedia.

March 1943 – An attack on interned German merchant ships in Goa harbour in Portuguese India in March 1943. Raid into Mormugao harbour in Goa boarding the German merchant ship “Erhrenfels” sinking her. U boats operated in the Indian ocean before the raid. U boats had sunk 12 allied ships in the Indian ocean during March 1943. (Japans Gestapo Mark Felton (c)2009 UK).

1947 – Indian archives. The national archive of India. Journal magazine, government publication. New Delhi. Worldcat database.

1947-49 – In India a great deal of material was destroyed before government was handed over in 1947. By Sept 1947 security conditions in the Indian government offices was bad. Delhi, 14 July 1949 the office of the High Commissioner for India Krishna Menon. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Aug 1947 – India’s Congress Socialist party had Communist ideas. Fear of Communism. 1947. British M15 and India’s DIB. April 1947, 7,200 files and 106,000 cards were transferred from IPI to M15 central registry. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

Feb 1948 – A conference of Communist youth was held in Calcutta India. Insurrections broke out in Burma Malaya, the Philippines and Indonesia after the conference. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1950-67 – From India to Nairobi Kenya. One of 32,000 Gujarati workers who built the trans Kenyan railway. 2,500 men died and 7,000 were invalid and sent back to India. Kenya got independence in 1963 and by 1967 new laws in kenya about trade. (Who do you think you are. The genealogy handbook BBC UK 2014).

13 May 1952 – Pandit Nehru became premier of India. The Rajya Sabha, upper house of parliament of India held its first sitting.(HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1959 – Since 1959 China had occupied over 12,000 square miles of India territory. (History today. May 2014 UK).

17 Dec 1961 – Indian troops entered Goa to liberate it from the Portugese who had ruled since 1510. Over 30,000 Indian troops were captured. 3,500 Portugese troops. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

28 May 1964 – Crowds at Jawaharlal Nehru’s funeral in New Delhi. Three million people lined the route. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

1966 – In Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi was PM at 47 years old. India was the world's largest democracy, with poverty, drought and riots. Food aid and famine in 1966. Slow US food shipments. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass. (c)2013 US).

Dec 1970 – The biggest election in the world was held in India, amid great poverty. More than 151 million voters. Calcutta was flooded with Communist literature. Pakistani elections in Dec 1970. US Pres Nixon was selling weapons to Pakistan. (The blood telegram. Gary J Bass (c)2013 US).

1973 – The last time this happened was in 1973 when 140 whales washed ashore and many died. The Big wobble. 14 Jan 2016. http://www.thebigwobble.org/2016/01/at-least-45-whales-died-after-group-of.html

7 Jan 1980 – Indira Gandhi was voted back into power in India. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 7 Jan 2015).

1984 – An explosion at a Union Carbide India ltd plant in Bhopal, left thousands of people dead and more than 500,000 explosed to deadly chemicals. Dow, who purchased Union Carbide, hired Stratfor to watch activitsts. (The many faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman ©2014 US).

31 Oct 1984 – The assassination of Indira Gandhi.

3 Dec 1984 – At midnight, more than 40 tons of poison methyl isocyanate gas, leaked from Union Carbide pesticide factory, in Bhopal India. Thousands of peope died instantly, and since then 10,000 more have died. Victims suffer from lung, brain and immune diseases. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker. ©2001 US).

3 Dec 1984 – Bhopal union carbide plant accident killed several thousand people and injured more than 200,000.

1986 – Rita Rozario. Trafficking in women and children in India. New Delhi Uppal publishing house.

1988 – Surendra K Gupta. Stalin’s policy towards India 1946-53. New Delhi South Asian publishers.

Dec 1992 – The destruction of the Ayodhya mosque. It was built by the Mughals in the 16th century. On the site of a Hundu temple. The killing of thousands of people in riots that followed. (You cant read this book. Nick Cohen ©2012 UK).

30 Sept 1993 – A series of earthquakes killed 10,000 people. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

30 Sept 1993 – In Killari 10,000 people were killed in a 7.4 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

30 Sept 1993 – Killari earthquake 6.2 to 6.4. Latur and Osmanabad in India. Maharashtar site. This was the deadliest earthquake of 1993. More than 9,000 people were killed and 30,000 wounded. The village of Killari. 30 to 35% of the 15,500 residents died. Buried under the rubble of buildings in Killari. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur (c)2008 US).

1994 – David Hatcher Childress. Vimana arca of ancient India of Atlanta. US Aduli.

1996 – Human rights within, rape for profit, trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India’s brothels. New York.

5 March 1998 – Indian Socialist leader wants multinationals to leave India. AFX news London UK. New Delhi Socialist leader George Fernandes.

11 March 1998 – Suzuki. Indian Socialist leader Fernandes. AFX news London UK. Leader of India’s Socialist party George Fernandes.

1999 – Enforced disappearances, arbitrary executions and secret cremations. Victim testimony and India’s human rights obligations. Interim report. Book. Worldcat database. Punjab disappeared and police brutality India.

22 Jan 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Stainer and his two sons were burned alive by Hindus while sleeping in a car in eastern India. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 22 Jan 2016).

26 Jan 2001 – A 7.7 earthquake in Gujarat. 19,700 people were killed. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

26 Jan 2001 – In Gujarat 20,000 people were killed in a 7.9 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

25 July 2003 – Tibetan official meets Indian Communist party officers. Political bureau of the Communist party of India, Marxist. BBC UK.

8 Oct 2005 – Kashmir India earthquake 7.6. 85,000 casualties. 69,000 people were injured. 4 million people were made homeless. (India Today. 7 Dec 2015).

2007 – Alex von Tunzelman. Indian summer, the secret historty of the end of an empire. Macmillan.

2007 – Experiences of sex trafficking victims in Mumbai India. Article JG Silverman. MR Decker. J Gupta. A Mahesshwari. V Patel.

July 2008 – The Mumbai terrorist attacks. Three bombings in which 26 people died and hundreds of people were injured. There were about 100 million Indian internet users. Content was forbidden by the state. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert (c)2013 Canada).

6 Dec 2008 – Chinese party official met with an Indian Communist party delegation. Indian Communist party, Marxist and Chinese Communist party. BBC UK.

2009 – Satyam scandal computer services. A corporate scandal in India in 2009. Ramalinga Raju.

2010 – A history of India. Burton Stein. David Arnold. From 7000 BC to present. Google books.

2010 – Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India. Henry Schuarz. Google books.

30 July 2010 – Poor Indian farmers sick of imports from Fonterra New Zealand. https://newzeelend.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/poor-indian-farmers-sick-of-imports-from-new-zealand/

17 Sept 2010 – Anonymous DDos attack on Indian software company Aiples, after a DDos attack on Bit Torrent site Pirate Bay. Anonymous attack on copyrite companies in 'Operation Payback'. (We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 US).

7 May 2011 – Cops sitting on missing body case for 4 years. Prabeerkumar Sikdar. Suspicious deaths, hospitals and bodies go missing. Pallike Paul age 48. His body disappeared on 7 May 2011. The Mafia are trafficking bodies. (26 Nov 2015. The Times of India).

13 Feb 2012 – Big sex abuse racket at orphanages. Sex abuse of inmates at orphanages. The Hindu.

11 July 2012 – Widespread sex abuse of Indian orphans. Sex abuse at orphanages and shelters in India. Children's homes. Raw story.

26 Nov 2012 – India appointed the first Muslim to head the Intel bureau in 125 years. Syed Asif Ibrahim head of India’s Intel bureau, 59 years old. Jason Burke. The Guardian UK.

2013 – Flooding In India caused devastation and a death toll of 6,000 in the state of Uttarakhad. (The Economist. March April 2014).

6 June 2013 – Hardly anyone in India pays income tax. A World bank report in 2006. India ranks 55^th on the global hunger index.

15 June 2013 – Hamid Ansari. Missing person. Interpol.

8 Sept 2013 – Court. Cops sheild owners of brothels. Human trafficking rackets girls raped. CanIndia news.

27 Sept 2013 – Five people are dead and some trapped in a Mumbai building collapse.. The Nation Pakistan.

7 Oct 2013 – CID probes role of Nagaland top cop in ammunition smuggling. Hindustan times.

19 April 2014 – Lax laws help kidney racket thrive in south Asia. Poverty, Organ trafficking mafia, kidneys racket. The Times of India.

June 2014 – New Internationalist. Indian orphans western UK Paedophile ring sex abuse.

22 June 2014 – Between greed and poverty child trafficking rampant in Kerala orphanages. Hindustan Times.

22 June 2014 – India orphanages house kids of living parents. Kochi. Oxford dictionary defines an orphanage as a residential institution for care and education of children whose parents are dead. Trafficked children incidents. The Times of India.

22 June 2014 – 50% of adopton agencies are unlicensed and out of government ambit.. Child trafficking rackets flourish. The Times of india.

29 June 2014 – Nine personel of Chandigarh police were booked by Delhi cops. Indian express. Japjeet Duggai.

30 June 2014 – Cop held for rape and blackmail of a junior. Mumbai., Vijay Singh TNN Natasha Natu. A policeman was arrested for rape. Nagesh Gawde aged 30. Times of india.

2 July 2014 – Corruption among Indian doctors. A British medical journal article. Unnecessary tests and prescribing drugs from a particular company. NDTV.

17 July 2014 – India is home to more poor people than anywhere else on earth. Time.

19 July 2014 – The Economic Times India. Pro business is not anti poor. Arun Jaitley. Modi govt pro poor.

21 July 2014 – Economic Times India. Uncluttered offices. What will become of the archives. By Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Archives or death. History and politics.

2 Aug 2014 – Pro business is pro poor. Former Bihar deputy Sushi Modi. India Times.

3 Aug 2014 – Banking to the poor. DNA correspondent. Financial inclusion or exclusion. Basic bank accounts. This is good. But when I was poor, I had no bank account, because I had no money to put in it, and no welfare either. At least giving poor people bank accounts, with nothing in them, will give you data and statistics about this.

4 Aug 2014 – Kerala cops face probe by Mumbai police for rapes. Ahmed Ali. Rape in police custody, wrongful confinement, threats and destruction of evidence. The Times India.

4 Aug 2014 – Dodgy figures. Number of people poor, fell, as world bank revises poverty statistics. New Delhi. Poor in India 400 million down to 100 million. A new poverty line is drawn. $1.25 a day.

12 Aug 2014 – Anoop Agrawal. Unni Krishnan. Indian cental banker urged cash transfers to dilute the power of Indian oligarchs. Directly transfer cash to the poor instead of giving money to public services. Corruption. Choices for the poor. Bloomberg.

29 Aug 2014 – India is launching a massive program. offering bank accounts to the poor. Saritha Rai. Modi India’s PM. Over a third of India’s population have no access to any financial services. Forbes.

5 Sept 2014 – Al Qaeda announced the formation of a new branch in India. Current leader Ayman al Zawahiri aged 63. Intelnews. Ian Allen.

29 Sept 2014 – Modi is a leader of the global poor. Quartz. Kabir Chibber. Yes, but it has nothing to do with Socialist Middle class politics. Right wing Indian politics is real about the poor. India has the largest number of the poorest people of any country on earth. Reuters.

5 Oct 2014 – Fact corner. UN report warns of rising poverty in Asia Pacific region. Sanjay Sethi, New Delhi. Gaps between the ultra rich and the ultra poor are striking and widening. Press TV.

6 Oct 2014 – More than 2.2 billion people are poor or near poor. UN report. Tokyo AP. 25 July 2014. Its necessary to provide basic social security benefits to the poor. Basic social protection is needed. 1.2 billion people live on $US1.25 a day or less. Daily Times Pakistan.

6 Oct 2014 – India tops list of largest share of extreme poor people in the world. UN report published. 17 July 2014. Xinhua China. Over 30% of global extreme poor are in India. New Delhi, on less than $US1.25 a day. Daily Times Pakistan.

16 Oct 2014 – At 3 year old she was raped in Delhi and testified in court against her rapist, at the age of 5 surgeries continue. Her rapist got let off because of her age. NOTV.

23 Oct 2014 – Indian girl aged 3 is raped in a Bangalore school, suffers pain. Investigation. BBC UK.

25 Oct 2014 – Navy man held in a mental prison for exposing corruption. Torture, lies and threats. Times of India.

3 Nov 2014 – We are preparing an online database of welfare recipients. Amrapali Kata, online database. The Hindu.

4 Nov 2014 – 700 missing children still untraced by Mumbai police in 3 years. Activist Chetan Kothari, Mumbai crime branch missing persons bureau. Times of india.

5 Nov 2014 – Child trafficking is a $343 billion trade in India. Mission network news. MNN National crime records.

6 Nov 2014 – Food stockpiling and trade WTO. Manoj Kumar and Tom Milen. Rural people in India. 1.25 billion people. India and food security concerns. Reuters.

13 Nov 2014 – Indian module are preparing for final Jihad in al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and ISIS training camps. The Indian national investigation agency are probing Islamist Module. Key members in contact with al Qaeda, terror attack in India. Kidnap Jews and terror in Burma Myanma. Care2 news.

17 Nov 2014 – About 200,000 Nepal children were sold into sex slavery in India. (Aangirfan).

18 Nov 2014 – International paedophile network in India. New India Express.

26 Nov 2014 – Police to maintain a database of sex offenders. Crimes against women and children. The Hindu.

21 Dec 2014 – Crusading against sex slavery. New India Express. Chennai India.

21 Jan 2015 – Lost child finds his mum 25 years later, because he recognised their home on Google Earth. Sarah Ridley. Saroo Brierley was begging on the streets of India, he was picked up by an orphanage and adopted to Tasmania Australia. Mirror UK.

2 March 2015 – India curbs shell companies. Shell companies located abroad but controlled from India to evade tax. Indian Express.

31 March 2015 – The Asian Mumbai. The State allegedly has no info about its orphans in orphanages. A biometrics system. 43 govt and 1,100 private orphanages. 90,000 orphans and 1,000 orphanages. The Indian govt has allegedly no data on these children.

17 April 2015 – Joseph Fitsanakis. Intel news. New documents released by US whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal an extensive intel collection op in Bangladesh operated by New Zealand and the US with Indian collaboration.

26 April 2015 – At least 26 people are known to have died in India. 17 in the eastern state of Bihar. Buildings in New Delhi were evacuated following the earthquake in Nepal. (AFP Yahoo news.).

26 April 2015 – At least 51 deaths in India following the Nepal earthquake. Indian Express. Felt strongly in India.

26 April 2015 – 44 people were reported killed in India, from the Nepal quake. (Reuters. Gopal Sharma.n Ross Adkin).

26 April 2015 – At least 35 people were killed in India from the Nepal quake. (Radio NZ).

26 April 2015 – PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat. We are with Nepal in this hour of crisis. New Delhi. India Today.

26 April 2015 – Swissinfo.ch SWI. Reuters. Aftershocks rock buildings in New Delhi. Halting the city metro.

26 April 2015 – A 6.9 tremor rocks India and Nepal. Pm Modi calls an emergency meeting. India launched 'Operation Maitri' to rescue people trapped. 4,721 people were injured in Nepal. The calamity tis he worst in over 80 years. Znews.

8 May 2015 – British businessman Ranjit Singh Power was as last seen at the int airport in Amritsar Punjab on 8 May 2015 when he failed to get his flight to London on 14 may 2015. A missing person report was filed and a reward offered of 25,000 pounds. DNA showed that the body sent back to the UK from India was not him. Still missing, unsolved.

12 May 2015 – A 7.3 earthquake hit Nepal. 6 major aftershocks. Death toll rises. Tremors felt across India and in New Delhi. 100 people injured. Hindustan Times.

12 May 2015 – 4 earthquakes hit Nepal. PM Modi asks authorities to be on alert. 10 developments. NDTV.

17 May 2015 – Supreme court probes massive adoption racket. Foreigners pay huge amounts for Indian children. Overseas child trafficking under the cover of adoption. Daily Mail online UK.

20 June 2015 – Indian toxic alcohol kills at least 53 people in Mumbai/Bombay. BBC UK.

23 June 2015 – Corruption and trafficking. 'Operation Muskin' to photograph street children, begging, to be cataloged by police. Times of India.

2 Aug 2015 – 8 policemen were arrested in a human trafficking case, through the Codin int airport. Documents were found during a raid. Trafficking from 2007 to 2012. The Emigration dept of the airport. The Hindu.

2 Aug 2015 – 21 people are missing after a mudslide in north east India. Finding missing people in a village 100 miles south west of Imphal, the Manipur state capital. The Guardian UK

30 Aug 2015 – Polish trekker. Twitter. Tourist gone missing in Parbati valley. India Today.

10 Oct 2015 – India wants to stop the flow of maids to Saudi Arabia. Kallol Bhattacherjee. Cases of sex slavery, sadism and torture. MEA statement. The Hindu.

10 Oct 2015 – Toxic foam and fire come out of Bellander lake, the largest lake in the city of Bangalore. Its polluted with amonia and phosphate. The watchers G+ Griffin Walker.

17 Oct 2015 – Two girls age 2 and 5 were raped in Delhi. Twitter. Jerusalem online.

17 Oct 2015 – Delhi police. Rape of two minors in Delhi .Twitter.

19 Oct 2015 – US Walmart paid millions of dollars in bribes in India. NDTV.

13 Nov 2015 – Australia is exporting selling uranium to India. Huffington Post. Dave Sweeney.

3 Dec 2015 – Worst in 100 years. Non stop torrential rains in southern India. Evacuations and schools closed. G+. Griffin Walker. RT.

5 Dec 2015 – Chennai floods. 18 ICU patients died in a local hospital tragedy. Lack of basic needs like water, power and food. At a private hospital 18 patients died when a black out stopped oxygen supplies in the ICU. Floods killed at least 269 people. FP India. Indian Express report.

17 Dec 2015 – Air India grounded after technician Ravi Subramian got sucked into the engine in a freak accident at Mumbai airport. India TV. http://m.indiatvnews.com/news/india/air-india-pilot-co-pilot-grounded-after-its-techie-death-mumbai-56492.html

4 Jan 2016 – A 6.8 earthquake hit India. City of Imphal in Manipur state. Epicenter in Tamanglong region of Manipur state. One news. AP. USGS. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/major-earthquake-strikes-northern-india

4 Jan 2016 – At least 6 people are dead and 100 injured. Massive damage in Manipur India. 6.7 earthquake. Buildings and walls collapsed. The Times of India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Four-dead-100-injured-after-massive-earthquake-jolts-northeastern-India/articleshow/50432467.cms

14 Jan 2016 – 45 pilot whales died after 81 whales washed ashore in Tamil Nadu. The. whales were in shock. Injured by high intensity underwter activity. http://www.thebigwobble.org/2016/01/at-least-45-whales-died-after-group-of.html

28 Jan 2016 - 7^th member of the Datta family dies. ABC Australia news. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-27/seventh-member-of-family-dies-two-weeks-after-car-crash-in-india/7119258

1 Feb 2016 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/13-college-students-on-school-picnic-drown-in-western-india/2016/02/01/5fcebc2e-c8fa-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html

2025 – The world population is to hit 9.7 billion by 2050. India will overtake China as the most populous country. (Darren Boyle. Mail online. 29 July 2015.)

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