Facing relentless media attention and growing criticism for a series of rapes, state officials in north India fired two police officers for failing to investigate the disappearance of two teenage cousins, who were gang-raped and later found hanging from a tree.

Two police officers who failed to investigate the disappearance of two teenage girls in India who were gang-raped and later found hanging from a tree have been fired.

Three men have been arrested in northern India for attacking the mother of a rape victim after she refused to withdraw her police complaint.

Four trains have collided in two separate accidents caused by dense winter fog in northern India, killing five people and injuring about 50 others.