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During the Fine Gael ard fheis on Saturday, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he did not plan to call an election before Christmas.

Among the many threats associated with climate change, deteriorating global security could turn out to be the most frightening of all, says Gulrez Shah Azhar

At least 40 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated as floods hit vast swathes of central and eastern India.

Police in central India are looking for a man in connection with a massive explosion at a restaurant that killed 90 people, as angry residents protested the way the authorities were handling the case.

Dan MacCarthy is roughing it on a jeep safari in rugged Bandhavgarh National Park in northern India, where he hopes to get a glimpse of an elusive tiger or, maybe, two.

A pre-dawn stampede has killed 18 people as tens of thousands of people gathered to mourn the death of a Muslim spiritual leader in India’s financial capital, police said.

The death toll from a stampede near a temple in central India has risen to 109, an official said.

At least 64 people were died in a stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India, police said.

An American tourist was gang-raped by a group of men in a hill resort in northern India, police said yesterday, in what is the latest in a series of attacks that have thrown the spotlight on women’s safety.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested by Indian police on suspicion of raping a four-year-old girl, the latest incident of sexual violence to shock the country.

A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said.

A girl of five has died after being raped in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Up to 15 people are feared trapped after a hospital building partially collapsed in central India.

The gang rape and death of an Indian woman and other incidents have turned the spotlight on the nation’s attitude to women, writes Claire O’Sullivan

The British Foreign Office is “urgently” investigating reports suggesting a British woman jumped from a hotel window to escape an apparent sexual assault in India.

Six men accused of raping a Swiss tourist who was cycling with her husband in central India have appeared in court charged with gang rape.

Police detained 20 men on Sunday in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state after a Swiss woman on a cycling trip was gang-raped.

Thirteen men are being held after a Swiss tourist was robbed and gang-raped in the central state of Madhya Pradesh of India.

A boycott threat could be looming over the London 2012 Olympics.

THE room is large and airy, the stone floors clean and cool — a welcome respite from the afternoon sun. Until your eyes take in the horror that it holds. Ten malnourished children — nine of them girls.

At least 21 people died when a crowded bus veered off the road and plunged into a river in central India, a news agency said today.

Trains and planes were halted across India today by strikes in protest at fuel price rises.

Seven former senior employees of Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary were convicted today of “death by negligence” for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy which killed an estimated 15,000 people more than a quarter of a century ago.

POLICE say 28 people have been killed in central India after the bus they were travelling in touched a high-voltage wire and caught fire.

Police say 28 people have been killed in central India after the bus they were travelling in touched a high-voltage wire and caught fire.

HUNDREDS of people marched through Bhopal with torches before dawn yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster and demand the cleanup of toxic chemicals they say still contaminate the Indian city’s soil and water.

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country’s tigers, a government minister said today.

India has taken fresh steps to ensure the future of tigers as their numbers continue to dwindle.

Four “jobless” elephants from islands off the east coast of India have found new roles in wildlife reserves on the mainland.

The second phase of parliamentary elections in India ended relatively peacefully today in all but the rebel-affected state of Jharkhand.

Maoist rebels launched a series of attacks today as the second phase of parliamentary elections began in India.

Suspected communist rebels ambushed and killed 15 policemen in a jungle in western India, police said today.

Police have detained 80 people who walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak in central India to protest today outside the prime minister’s residence in New Dehli, an organiser said.

Millions of people suffered from a blistering heat wave sweeping across several Indian states, killing at least 33 people over the weekend with day temperatures soaring up to 47 degrees Celsius, officials and news reports said today.

An Indian firm plans to burn toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the world’s worst industrial accident, despite environmentalists’ objections.

An Indian woman threw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, committing suicide in line with an ancient Hindu custom that persists despite a two-century ban on the practice.

This was no one-night stand.

At least 10 people were killed when their homes collapsed and another eight were missing after being swept away by floodwaters in northern India, bring the death toll from annual monsoon rains to at least 239, government officials said today.

Thousands of civil rights activists, survivors and other protesters gathered in Bhopal today to mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering in the aftermath.

CIVIL rights activists, survivors and other protesters converged on Bhopal this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering.

TWELVE people were crushed to death when a train ran over them at a railroad station in central India.

Twelve people were crushed to death when a train ran over them at a railroad station in central India today.

A gang of bandits tied the hands and feet of 13 villagers and then shot them dead in central India today.

A US court could order chemical firm Union Carbide to clean up the site of a gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, now that the Indian government says it has no objection to the move.

India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee flashed a “V” sign for victory as he voted in today’s round of parliamentary elections and expressed confidence he would be returned to office for another five years, despite predictions his coalition might lose seats.

An opinion poll ahead of tomorrow’s penultimate phase of India’s general elections showed Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s coalition surging ahead of its rivals, but falling short of a majority in parliament.

India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party wrested control of three of four state legislatures in elections seen as a strong indicator for the country’s parliamentary ballot next year.

INDIA’S ruling Hindu nationalist party wrested control from the opposition in three of four state legislatures, according to election results yesterday.