Authorities are investigating how more than 100 bodies, many of them children, ended up floating in an offshoot of the Ganges River in northern India.

Thousands of people enraged by power cuts during an extreme heatwave have been rioting across northern India, officials said.

Police have used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women protesting at violence against women in the northern Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped and found hanging from a tree.

Police have used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women protesting against a rise in violence against women in the Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped and later found hanging from a tree.

Police arrested a third suspect today over the gang rape and killing of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, as a top state official said he was recommending a federal investigation into a case that has triggered national outrage.

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.

Two teenage sisters in rural India were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a mango tree, which became the scene of a silent protest by villagers angry about alleged police inaction in the case.

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India has ended a search for treasure underneath a 19th century fort after finding only a few bones and terracotta bricks but none of the gold predicted by a Hindu holy man’s dream.

Archaeologists have begun digging for treasure beneath a 19th century fort in northern India after a popular Hindu holy man said a former king appeared to him in a dream and told him about it.

In a country where many girls are discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood.

An Indian girl of 13 is studying for a master’s degree after her father sold the family’s land to pay her tuition fees.

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Fourteen members of a family returning from a wedding were burned to death when the minivan they were travelling in caught fire in northern India, police said. The dead include 10 children.

Two buses collided head-on and fell into a ditch in northern India today, killing 20 people and injuring 25 others.

A north Indian state is investigating after eyes went missing from two bodies at state hospitals.

Fifteen people were killed when a train collided with an overcrowded taxi at an unmanned railroad crossing in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said.

A flamboyant Indian state leader has been told to cover up a dozen large statues of herself that she erected because they break election rules.

Sixteen Hindu pilgrims were killed and another 50 injured in a stampede during a religious ceremony on the banks of the River Ganges in northern India, an official said today.

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At least 40 people were killed when a truck overturned and fell into a roadside pond in northern India today, police said.

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 train smashed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing in northern India today, killing at least 31 people and injuring 39 others after a wedding party.

Near-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicine to the poor, an official and a news report said today.

AN Indian court ruled a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.

THE People Before Profit organisation in Waterford city has called on the City Council and the Chamber of Commerce to “facilitate attendance” for local residents, community groups, trade unionists and local environmental activists at a regeneration conference.

At least 17 children were killed when their school collapsed under heavy rains in India today.

A truck carrying Hindu pilgrims has plunged into a gorge in a mountainous region in northern India, killing at least 20 people as rescuers searched for another seven who were missing.

Trains and planes were halted across India today by strikes in protest at fuel price rises.

The death toll from a boat accident in north India has risen to 52 as rescuers continue to recover more bodies, officials said today.

At least 35 people were feared drowned today after a boat capsized on the Ganges river in north India.

Fierce thunderstorms with heavy rains uprooted trees and destroyed hundreds of homes, crushing dozens of people to death and injuring scores of others in northern India, police said today.

The death toll in a stampede at a temple in north India rose to 63 today.

At least 23 people were killed and 12 others injured when a vehicle overturned in northern India, police said.

More than 30 people have died in cold weather-related incidents in northern India in the past 24 hours, including 10 people killed in train accidents caused by dense fog, police said today.

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

A Indian husband gambled his wife away after he lost a game of cards.

A leading Indian politician was arrested today after she suggested a rival leader should be raped so she could better understand the plight of sex victims.

An overloaded boat carrying Hindu devotees capsized in northern India, leaving at least 21 people dead and 20 missing, police said today.

A train has hit a bus at an unmanned railway crossing in northern India, killing at least 11 people and injuring 22.

Police arrested six members of a hard-line Hindu group today for attacking and cutting the hair of three couples on Valentine's Day near the Taj Mahal - India's white-marble monument to love.

At least 22 people in north India have lost the sight in one eye days after undergoing free cataract surgery at a state-owned clinic, officials said today.

Tigers have killed at least three children and four adults in north India in recent weeks, officials said Friday, forcing frightened villagers to stay indoors while forest rangers search for the wild cats.