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.

Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heatwave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said.

A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of raiders when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said.

A tiger snatched a woman and disappeared into the surrounding mangrove forest in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, an official said today.

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.

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.

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

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The Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman allegedly attacked on the orders of a village council, the Press Trust of India is reporting.

Police in India say a young woman has been gang raped on the orders of a village council because she fell in love with a man from a different religion.

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.

An American tourist was gang-raped by a group of men in a hill resort in northern India, police said yesterday, in what is the latest in a series of attacks that have thrown the spotlight on women’s safety.

A man has been arrested over the alleged rape of an Irish woman working with an aid agency in India.

The fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building that collapsed in Bangladesh in a deadly heap last week was captured at a border crossing with India by members of a commando force.

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More than 100 women were dumped unconscious in a field after a mass sterilisation in India because there was no room in hospital for them to recuperate.

The family of a murdered Indian gang-rape victim will not rest until her killers are hanged, her brother said.

Society should be shouting from the rooftops and insisting more be done to stop the escalation of rape attacks, according to the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

India’s top court has ordered a state government to explain the arrest of two women for a comment one of them posted on Facebook.

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 tainted batch of bootleg alcohol has killed at least 102 people and sent dozens more to hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.

A private Indian hospital where 90 people died in a massive fire failed to update its safety procedures despite being ordered to do so months ago, officials said today.

FLEEING medical staff abandoned patients to a raging fire that killed 89 people in a seven-storey hospital in India, officials said.

Six hospital officials have been arrested on charges of culpable homicide after a fire that killed 88 people, Indian police said today.

Rescuers have finally reached some of the villages in India’s remote north-east cut off by a powerful earthquake as the death toll in the disaster climbed past 100.

Soldiers in north-eastern India have cleared a path to a hydroelectric project where 17 people were confirmed killed by landslides in a powerful Himalayan earthquake, bringing the overall toll in the disaster to 99.

Thousands of homeless villagers in the Himalayas spent a miserable night outdoors in heavy rains after a powerful earthquake flattened houses and rescuers struggled to reach victims in the mountains of India, Nepal and Tibet.

Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings today, as the death toll from an earthquake which hit north-east India, Nepal and Tibet rose to 50.

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.

A leopard that mauled 11 people in a fierce showdown with Indian villagers has died of knife wounds after being captured.

IRISH feeding technology company Keenan has signed a five-year deal to supply its patented animal feed and mixer wagons to India’s oldest dairy business, Keventer.

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.

A freight train on the wrong track crashed into a stationary passenger engine killing at least 21 people in India 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.

India today refused to rule out sabotage in a train crash that killed more than 60 people and injured dozens more.

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.

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

Railway authorities cancelled all night trains in an eastern Indian state today after a passenger express train derailed and was hit by a cargo train, killing at least 108 people and injuring hundreds.

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 launched a series of devastating ambushes on Indian troops today killing at least 75 in the deadliest strike against the government in their 43-year insurgency.

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

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.