India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus.

An Indian juvenile court has convicted a teenager of rape and murder in the first conviction stemming from the December gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus.

Eunuchs in India are planning to become a political force with their own party, says the country's only eunuch MP.