A 14-year-old girl was dragged into a forest and raped on the orders of a village council in remote eastern India in retaliation for a sex assault blamed on her brother, according to police and relatives.

A Bengal tiger snatched a man off a fishing boat in eastern India, dragging him into a mangrove swamp as his children looked on.

An Indian female politician and activist has said rape victims may have invited attacks by their clothes and behaviour.

A father in eastern India is suing his only son for defamation after he married a woman from a lower caste, saying that he has damaged his reputation and social standing.

The father of a teenager who was allegedly gang raped and later died after being set on fire in eastern India is demanding a federal inquiry into the case.

Cleaners flush out gold hoard in toilets

A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches in July at the school in eastern India, police said.

A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches at the school in eastern India in July, police said today.

A speeding train has run over a group of pilgrims, killing at least 20 people in eastern India, a lawmaker says.

At least seven villagers were killed and five others injured when a heap of coal collapsed on them at a coal mine in eastern India.

At least 20 children have died and more are sick after eating free meals at a primary school in eastern India.

Brandname multinationals such as IBM and Vodafone have offices nearby, and a five-star Marriott hotel is going up on the main airport road in eastern Calcutta, not far from pricey pastel apartment blocks looking like Legoland in the hazy sun-baked distance.

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.

BOOTLEG liquor containing toxic methanol killed 143 people and sickened dozens more who drank the cheap, illicit brew bought at small shops in eastern India.

A poor government clerk from eastern India has become the first person to win the jackpot on the Indian version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'.

MONSOON rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India, killing at least 48 people in recent days and leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters.

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.

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.

RESCUERS searched through the wreckage of a packed express train for people trapped inside after it derailed in northern India yesterday, killing at least 31 people and injuring 100 others, officials said.

At least 31 people have been killed and 100 others were injured after a packed express train derailed in northern India.

Police in eastern India are investigating reports that villagers protesting against a noisy stone-crushing factory burned to death its three owners and four employees, authorities said today.

A man armed with a large knife beheaded an 18-year-old woman at her school in front of her horrified classmates in eastern India.

Rescue workers and naval divers have recovered 69 bodies three days after a boat crowded with Muslim pilgrims capsized near the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, an official said today.

MITHUN MAHATO was fast asleep on an overnight train before an enormous jolt awakened him and he panicked because his coach was flipping over.

An express train crashed with a passenger train at a station in eastern India early today, mangling the carriages and killing 56 people, railway police said.

An overcrowded bus has collided head-on with a truck in eastern India today, killing 23 people and injuring 15 others, police said.

Police say at least 20 people have been killed and 15 critically injured in eastern India today when a minibus crashed into a tree and fell into a ditch.

SUSPECTED Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train yesterday in eastern India, triggering a crash with an oncoming cargo train that killed at least 71 people and injured about 200 more, officials said.

Suspected sabotage by Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train that was then hit by a freight train in eastern India today, killing at least 65 people and injuring an additional 200.

At least 31 people have died after a cyclone demolished thousands of mud huts and uprooted trees in a cluster of villages in eastern India, an official said today.

Maoist rebels killed at least 60 paramilitary soldiers in attacks in eastern India today.

At least nine people were killed and 13 others seriously injured in lightning strikes in eastern India.

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

A bus overtaking another vehicle at high speed as they crossed a bridge in eastern India crashed through the railings and fell nearly 30 feet onto a railroad track today, leaving at least six people dead, a news report said.

Eleven police officers were killed when their vehicle went over a land mine planted by suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India.

Suspected Maoist rebels blew up a police van in eastern India today, killing at least 11 police.

CYCLONE Aila has displaced millions of people in India and Bangladesh, only a fraction of whom have access to food and drinking water, officials said last night.

Suspected communist rebels have freed more than 250 train passengers after keeping them hostage for nearly five hours at a rail station in eastern India, police said today.

At least six teenagers died from suspected food poisoning after drinking sour milk at their boarding school in eastern India, an official said today.

FLOODING has struck the Bihar region in eastern India hard in the past few weeks. Dozens of people have drowned and more than 100,000 hectares of farmland have been submerged.

A land mine has blown up a police van in eastern India, killing at least 12 police officers, officials said today.

The pope today condemned anti-Christian violence in India where at least eight people have been killed by Hindu mobs attacking churches.

Suspected Hindu hard-liners set an orphanage run by Christian missionaries on fire in eastern India on today, killing one nun and seriously injuring a priest, police said.

At least 20 members of a wedding party were killed in eastern India today when the jeep carrying them plunged into a roadside canal, an official said.