Suspected Maoists bombed a school and a railway track, and set several communication towers afire, Tuesday in eastern India in anticipation of a government crackdown, authorities said.
A baby born with his heart protruding from his chest died two weeks after undergoing complex surgery to correct the problem, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Indian government doctors Thursday eased the protruding heart of a 10-day-old baby boy back into his body in what they called a critical but successful surgery.
Doctors at an Indian government hospital on Thursday undertook a critical surgery to save a baby boy born with a heart protruding from his chest, said his father, Chander Majhi.
Doctors at an Indian government hospital were ready Thursday morning for a critical surgery to save a baby boy born with a heart protruding from his chest.
The father of a baby born with his heart protruding from his chest has told CNN about the 1100 km train journey he made to save his son's life.
While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
Indians turned out in steady numbers Thursday to pick a new federal government in a mammoth month-long general election. But suspected Maoist insurgents marred the balloting in several areas with deadly attacks.
At least eight people were killed and their mutilated bodies thrown into a river after a meeting to resolve two families' dispute over a secret wedding in eastern India, police said Wednesday.
Suspected Maoists bombed a school and a railway track, and set several communication towers afire, Tuesday in eastern India in anticipation of a government crackdown, authorities said.
A baby born with his heart protruding from his chest died two weeks after undergoing complex surgery to correct the problem, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Indian government doctors Thursday eased the protruding heart of a 10-day-old baby boy back into his body in what they called a critical but successful surgery.
Doctors at an Indian government hospital on Thursday undertook a critical surgery to save a baby boy born with a heart protruding from his chest, said his father, Chander Majhi.
Doctors at an Indian government hospital were ready Thursday morning for a critical surgery to save a baby boy born with a heart protruding from his chest.
The father of a baby born with his heart protruding from his chest has told CNN about the 1100 km train journey he made to save his son's life.
While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
Indians turned out in steady numbers Thursday to pick a new federal government in a mammoth month-long general election. But suspected Maoist insurgents marred the balloting in several areas with deadly attacks.
At least eight people were killed and their mutilated bodies thrown into a river after a meeting to resolve two families' dispute over a secret wedding in eastern India, police said Wednesday.
Mobs barged into a railway station in the eastern Indian state of Bihar Wednesday and set two passenger cars on fire to retaliate against alleged attacks on Biharis in another state, police said.
A bus crashed into a roadside tent in eastern India Thursday, killing 14 people.
At least 50,000 people have refused to abandon their homes in flood-ravaged northern India
The Indian government said Wednesday it is sending food and equipment to help the estimated 3 million people in a flood-ravaged area of the country's northeast.
As soon as the navy boats hit the water, hundreds of villagers swarmed around them -- pleading with rescue crews to head to their homes to retrieve the bodies of dead relatives.
The piercing wails from little lungs fill the air at this makeshift relief camp in Bihar's flood-ravaged Purnia district.
About 1.2 million people have been left homeless and scores have been killed in the impoverished state of Bihar in the two weeks since the monsoon-swollen Kosi river in neighboring Nepal burst its banks
The grinding misery triggered by the massive floods in a downtrodden part of northeastern India and across the border in Nepal persisted Friday, with government and aid agencies swinging into action to help the 2 million-plus people fleeing high-rising, fast-moving waters.
India grapples with its monsoon every year, but this month's intense flooding in Bihar has left millions homeless -- and others asking if it could have been prevented
Everywhere one looked, desperation stared back.
Extreme flooding has displaced millions of people on either side of the India-Nepal border after a river burst its banks, authorities said Thursday.
Hundreds of Indian army troops were using helicopters and boats Wednesday to deliver supplies and rescue villagers stranded by the worst flooding in decades, after the Kosi River breached an embankment in Nepal to the north.
Floodwaters raged through more than 1,000 villages unaccustomed to high water after a river in northeast India burst its banks, UNICEF India and government officials said Tuesday.
Authorities struggled to get aid to more than 1 million people stranded by floods in a north Indian state, with one local government leader describing the situation as a catastrophe
An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday.
Surgeons in India said a mammoth 40-hour operation on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was going according to plan.
Vimlendu Jha is a natural leader. Just watch him in action.
The United Nations is warning of a massive "health crisis" in southern Asia, where 30 million people have been overwhelmed by the monsoonal rains and flash flooding sweeping across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Monsoon rains in South Asia have driven millions from their homes and caused what the United Nations says is the worst flooding in living memory.
"Progress will be when I can afford to buy good shoes," a poor farmer says.
Police in Mumbai have arrested three people in connection with last week's deadly train attacks that killed at least 182 people and injured hundreds more.
India has launched a manhunt for as many as 400 Indian Maoist guerrillas and hundreds of other prisoners who escaped from a jail in Bihar after an attack by the rebels.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in an explosion aboard a crowded passenger train Thursday in the central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadavsaid.
After the best monsoon in a decade lifted rural incomes last year, India's vast agricultural sector is grappling with rainfall this year that has been late and erratic.
A massive health crisis is looming in Bangladesh as sewage mixes with floodwaters swirling through Dhaka, the capital of the South Asian country.
More than two weeks after a heavy bout of monsoon rains caused flash floods in several parts of South Asia, officials are still grappling with rescuing people and airlifting aid to millions cut off by the floods.
The death toll from South Asian floods has jumped to at least 374, officials said, as rising waters and overflowing rivers hit towns and villages from Nepal to Bangladesh.
The death toll from South Asian floods has jumped to at least 326 with rising waters and overflowing rivers hitting towns and villages from Nepal to Bangladesh.
A bus carrying wedding guests veered out of control and crashed into a rain-swollen river in eastern India, hours after a boat toppled into the same waterway, and some 65 people were feared killed in the two accidents, police said.
The third phase of India's national elections got under way Wednesday in seven states, mostly in the country's north.
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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