At least 173 people have died and millions more have been displaced across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh after heavy monsoon rains unleashed landslides and floods.

Heavy monsoon rains have caused landslides and floods that have killed at least 160 people and displaced millions of others across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh.

Fourteen people are feared dead after a massive mudslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept into a village in remote north-east India, officials said.

An adult Indian elephant that became trapped in a swamp in Bangladesh after being caught up in raging flood waters has died after weeks of struggling for survival.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has hit India’s remote north east region, killing at least six people, injuring more than 100 others and damaging buildings.

A powerful earthquake which struck Nepal today has killed at least 876 people across four countries.

The death toll from rebel violence in remote north-eastern India has risen to 72 with the recovery of more bodies from abandoned villages.

The death toll from flash floods and landslides in the north-east of India has risen to 73 as rescue workers reached homes cut off by the rising waters.

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.

An express train slammed into a parked freight train in northern India, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to a heap of torn and twisted metal, officials said.

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Indian Maoist rebels have killed 14 people in two separate attacks as they continue a campaign of violence aimed at disrupting a five-week national election.

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Five policemen have been killed after militants armed with assault rifles ambushed a group of officers in northeastern India, officials say.

As the 60th anniversary of the first Everest climb approaches, Conall Ó Fátharta looks back on the achievement of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh today, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds and forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.

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Police in India today said they had shot and killed at least eight people in the north-eastern state of Assam during protests against the conduct of a local election.

Hundreds of Indian tea estate workers surrounded a plantation owner’s home and set it on fire, killing him and his wife, police say.

Indian veterinarians are struggling to save the life of a rare rhinoceros which was shot and had its horn cut off after it wandered out of a flooded national park.

Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities yesterday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam.

The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced 2m to leave their homes.

The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around two million to leave their homes.

Surging flood waters have killed at least 29 people and displaced more than a million others in north-eastern India, officials said today.

Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages, killed at least 27 people and left hundreds of thousands more marooned in north east India.

Colonies of giant biting spiders have attacked villagers and sparked panic in remote north-east India.

Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote north east India, an official said.

About 40 people were dead and 160 missing after an overcrowded passenger ferry with 350 people aboard split into two and sank in a river in north-east India in a storm.

A packed ferry boat has capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote north-eastern India, leaving at least 35 people dead and 165 others feared missing.

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AN Indian labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him.

WARSAW Zoo has a pair of Indian rhinos.

Around 30 people are feared dead in north-east India after a footbridge spanning a river collapsed, police said.

CAMERAS captured the moment a fully grown leopard pounced on a forestry department official in a village in India.

The death toll from a train derailment in northern India rose to at least 60 today as more bodies were pulled out of the mangled coaches.

A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a large pond in India’s remote north east, killing at least 26 people, an official said today.

Suspected rebels sprayed bullets on a bus carrying Indian paramilitary soldiers in a remote forest area in the north-east, killing eight and wounding another 11 soldiers, police said today.

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Suspected separatist rebels triggered a land mine explosion today that killed at least four paramilitary soldiers and injured 25 others in India’s remote north-eastern state of Assam, police said.

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Protesters set buses on fire and clashed with police over India's decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh.

Security officials said today that the commander of a powerful rebel movement in India’s remote northeast has surrendered with a top deputy.

Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India’s restive north-east today, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.

Police in India today said that a powerful explosion has derailed a freight train, setting more than a dozen oil tanks on fire in the country's insurgency-wracked north east.