India has registered nearly an 800% spike in the number of so-called honour killings reported.

Police in northern India have arrested two men for allegedly raping a young woman for the second time in three years. She had refused to withdraw the first case against them.

Indian poultry firms expect demand to pick up after a ban on beef in the country’s western state of Maharashtra, with other states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party also aiming to toughen laws on livestock slaughter.

By placing the responsibility on women, one of the men sentenced to death for gang rape was repeating what his community and religious leaders have said for years, writes Muneeza Naqvi

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

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.

At least six people have died in a standoff between police and an Indian religious leader who is believed to be holed up inside his sprawling ashram along with thousands of devotees — some of whom are said to be armed.

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.

A man was beheaded and his girlfriend beaten to death in an “honour killing” in northern India after they eloped, 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.

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the Indian capital today as it hit the state of Haryana just outside New Delhi, the US Geological Survey said.

THE room is large and airy, the stone floors clean and cool — a welcome respite from the afternoon sun. Until your eyes take in the horror that it holds. Ten malnourished children — nine of them girls.

India is facing its worst drought in nearly 40 years because of a once-in-a-generation shortfall in summer rains, weather experts warned today.

The fourth phase of parliamentary elections in India began today on a peaceful note amid high security.

India is set to host a Formula One race in 2010, according to the head of the Indian Olympic Association.

Tens of thousands of lower-caste people wielding swords and knives were prevented from marching in troubled north-western India, where clashes involving police and rival communities have killed at least 25 in recent days.

An Indian court has sentenced a doctor to two years in prison for using ultrasound tests to determine the sex of foetuses – information the mothers could use to abort baby girls, an official said today.

Police gunfire killed three college students today as they were protesting at the alleged sexual molestation of fellow students by police on a train in eastern India, student groups and officials said.