At least 25 people are dead after a train crash in India early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the ministry of railways said.
Lashing winds and heavy rain pummeled India's southeastern coastline Friday as Cyclone Thane roared onshore killing at least 19 people.
High winds began smacking the southeastern coastline of India as a "very severe cyclonic storm" was expected to move ashore early Friday.
At least nine people, including a child, drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying them capsized in southern India Saturday, officials said.
Residents attempt to return home but find unbearable conditions in flood-ravaged India. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
A blanket of water hides the devastation underneath it. Miles and miles of villages, small cities, and farmland are spoiled by standing flood water.
At least 300 people have been killed and more than 1 million displaced in the flooding triggered by torrential rains in India, officials said Tuesday.
The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday.
An elected head of a south Indian state and four others died in a helicopter crash, federal authorities said Thursday.
An air force plane crashed in southern India on Friday, killing both pilots, authorities said.
Fifteen people have been diagnosed with cutaneous anthrax in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh over the past week, health officials said Friday.
A 20-year-old poverty-stricken woman has been charged for selling her newborn baby boy, police in southern India said Tuesday.
Six members of a Muslim family were burned alive Sunday in a fire at their house in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
A truck carrying 21 people washed away in flash floods Sunday in southern India, where at least 40 people have died over the past two days due to monsoons, a state official said.
At least 19 people died Saturday after 12 hours of heavy rain caused houses to collapse in Hyderabad in southern India, according to a state official.
At least 20 people were killed and five others injured when a fire broke out on a train in southern India early Friday, railway officials said.
Divers spent Monday searching for 36 members of an anti-insurgency unit who went missing after Maoist rebels fired on and sank their boat in eastern India, state media said.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
Investigators were pursuing leads on Monday from materials used to make bombs that killed 40 people in a southern Indian city, while Hindu nationalists called a strike to protest against the attacks blamed on Islamist militants.
Dozens killed in India attacks
A top Indian official Sunday refused to comment on claims that Islamic militants were responsible for attacks in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad that killed at least 44 people.
The death toll continued to rise in southern India, where two blasts Saturday night killed at least 41 people in Hyderabad in what authorities are calling terrorists attacks.
If Vinod Agarwal has his way, Hyderabad, a city known for its pearls and Old World charm, will soon become the capital of India's semiconductor industry.
At least 111 people died and 92 others were injured after an Indian passenger train derailed as it attempted to cross tracks washed away by a flood, officials say.
At least 110 people died and 92 others were injured when a passenger train derailed in southern India Saturday as it attempted to cross tracks washed away by a flood, police said.
At least 102 people died and 92 others were injured when a passenger train derailed in southern India Saturday as it attempted to cross tracks washed away by a flood, police said.
There have been many extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the disaster that unfolded as giant waves swept ashore after the earthquake. The following are a selection:
Exit polls from the second round of India's staggered parliamentary elections show opposition congress party gains over the ruling coalition.
Threats of vioence and calls for a boycott didn't stop millions of Indians from casting their votes in the first stages of a parliamentary election.
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