Ian McKellen has criticised India’s use of a British colonial law to crack down on homosexuality, telling a newspaper in Mumbai that the country needs to “grow up”.

Dental surgeons in India’s largest city say they have removed 232 small "tooth-like structures" from the mouth of a teenage boy with a rare medical condition.

A five-year-old Indian girl died after holy men advised a group to perform a torture ritual on her in the hope of finding treasure, it was reported today.

A day after 'Slumdog Millionaire' child actor Rubina Ali was at the centre of a controversy surrounding her alleged sale to an Arab sheikh, a Qatar-based businessman has offered to fund her education.

The mother and step-mother of 'Slumdog Millionaire' child star Rubina Ali had a Mumbai street showdown over claims the little girl had been put up for sale, it emerged today.