About The Emergency
In India, "the Emergency" refers to an 18-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country.
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... I know The Emergency services are busy but we ve just been left here without help...
House destroyed in Edinburgh explosion
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... I could smell gas and then I could hear the sirens of The Emergency services getting closer and closer, " she said...
Gaza hospital doctor speaks of moment missile hit
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... " It was just carnage in The Emergency department; there was a man that had shrapnel in his neck...
Hemsby road partially collapses on erosion-hit coastline
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... " We re working alongside The Emergency services - there is foot access but as for fire engines etc, nothing is getting along that road now, so we d like to hope that perhaps residents will be moved if they re at high risk...
Reading fire: Crane rescues worker next to burning high rise
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... " Redwood Consulting, on behalf of the Station Hill redevelopment project, said: " We activated our fire emergency plans immediately, The Emergency services were notified and are currently on site...
Gaza war: Premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital
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... " Corpses are spreading out in The Emergency department, patients are screaming, the medical staff is quite helpless, while the army is walking freely around in the hospital, " he said...
Rishi Sunak says Rwanda merry-go-round must end
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... Legal heads are being scratched as to how The Emergency legislation might workDeclaring a country safe is not the same as proving to a court that it genuinely is - as the Supreme Court has shown...
The trauma surgeons battling to save young victims of knife crime
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... As police in Bedfordshire launch on knife crime, hospital surgeons Mr David Kirby and Dr Amir Reyahi describe first hand the battle to save young lives inside - and outside - The Emergency ward...