Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also killed some of the world’s last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also hurt the world's last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of raiders when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said.

A video showing two sisters in northern India hitting back at men who allegedly harassed them on a crowded bus has drawn huge attention in a country where hundreds of thousands of women silently endure sexual harassment daily.

The doctor who conducted sterilisation procedures after which 13 women died in central India was arrested, but insisted he didn’t do anything wrong — even though he said he used to perform up to 10 times more surgeries a day than allowed.

Eight Indian women have died and 20 others are in a critical condition after having sterilisation surgery under a free government-run programme to help slow population growth.

Police in southern India have detained five construction company officials as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains.

Police in southern India detained two construction company directors as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains.

An Indian court has convicted five men for raping a photojournalist and a call-centre operator last summer inside an abandoned textile mill in the financial hub of Mumbai.

A pet parrot in India has been credited with helping catch the man who murdered its owner.

The Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman allegedly attacked on the orders of a village council, the Press Trust of India is reporting.

The diplomatic spat between India and the United States flared up again today, with India asking the American Embassy to remove one of its officers despite the US allowing an indicted Indian diplomat to return home.

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.

At least 13 people have been killed as a bus fell into a gorge after hitting a roadside tree in southern India.

A court has ruled that Indian media will now be allowed to cover the trial of four men accused of the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December, a defence lawyer in the case said today.

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

Police said yesterday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.

A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

Kingfisher Airlines has grounded flights for at least three days after a violent strike over unpaid wages at the cash-strapped Indian carrier.

At least 39 people were killed when a crowded passenger bus fell into a deep gorge in northern India, police said.

Top Indian carmaker Maruti Suzuki has shut one of its two factories after rioting sparked by a labour dispute killed one person and injured dozens of others.

Two buses collided head-on and fell into a ditch in northern India today, killing 20 people and injuring 25 others.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other websites are facing prosecution in Indian courts for refusing to censor themselves and remove contents considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures.

At least 33 people were killed when heavy rains and winds unleashed by a cyclone over India's south-eastern coast damaged hundreds of homes and uprooted trees, officials and news reports said today.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise says his visit to India this week follows a lifelong desire to see the country.

Thousands of disappointed fans broke chairs and tore posters after organisers cancelled a concert by Metallica concert on the outskirts of the Indian capital.

A strong earthquake shook north-eastern India and Nepal tonight, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending MPs in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.

Indian officials called an emergency security meeting today to investigate three co-ordinated bombings that killed at least 21 people in the country’s financial capital in the worst terrorist attack since the 2008 Mumbai siege.

Prosecutors have charged India’s former telecommunications minister, two other officials and six company executives with fraud and forgery in a scandal estimated to have cost the country billions of euro.

SLUMDOG Millionaire child star Rubina Ali says her home and the awards she won for the Oscar-winning film had been destroyed in a fire that raged through a congested Mumbai slum.

Near-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicine to the poor, an official and a news report said today.

Rescuers dug with their hands today to pull survivors and bodies from a building that collapsed in New Delhi, killing at least 64 people and leaving scores injured.

A FOUR-STOREY building collapsed in Delhi yesterday, killing at least 32 people, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Comedian Russell Brand and American pop singer Katy Perry were married today in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony at a luxury resort in a tiger reserve in north western India, an official said.

TWO more Australian athletes withdrew yesterday and a South African competitor reportedly found a snake in his room as complaints over cleanliness, security and construction continued to dog the troubled Commonwealth Games a week before the sporting event opens in New Delhi.

Two more Australian athletes withdrew today and a South African competitor reportedly found a snake in his room as complaints over cleanliness, security and construction continued to dog the troubled Commonwealth Games a week before the sporting event opens in New Delhi.

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.

PAKISTAN has accepted €4 million in aid from India for flood victims, a rare expression of goodwill between the feuding neighbours at a time when Pakistan is reeling from one of its worst ever natural disasters.

AN Indian woman gave birth to a baby in the bathroom of an international passenger plane and tried to dispose of it down the toilet, according to media reports in New Delhi.

India’s civil aviation minister said today that human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend.

INVESTIGATORS searching for clues as to what caused India’s worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the charred remains of an Air India flight.

An Indian court is expected to give its verdict today in the trial of a Pakistani man accused of gunning down dozens of people during the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.