An Indian court in the western state of Gujarat has convicted 31 of the 94 people charged with conspiracy and murder for setting fire to a passenger train in 2002 which triggered widespread religious violence, resulting in the death of more than 1,000 people.
Pakistani authorities dispatched Navy helicopters Thursday to alert fishermen near Karachi and parts of Balochistan to the expected arrival of Cyclone Phet and to urge them to return to shore, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Gurdeep Kaur's wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members.
The shooting death of a Muslim woman and three others five years ago has sparked a political row in India after a probe said the gun battle in which she was alleged to have been killed was staged.
Six hundred medical residents have been fired in western India for going on strike, officials said.
The death toll from an outbreak of hepatitis B in India's western Gujarat state reached 38 on Sunday as authorities prepared to begin a vaccination drive against the disease.
Authorities were carrying out raids at medical stores in India's western Gujarat state for bogus drugs and recycled syringes after a hepatitis B outbreak left 32 people dead, officials said Saturday.
Twenty-nine people have died in a hepatitis B outbreak in western India over the past two weeks, officials said Friday.
Health officials in India's Gujarat state are investigating a hepatitis outbreak that has left 19 people dead in less than two weeks, authorities said Wednesday.
Indian labor authorities rescued 18 child workers in raids at metal-embroidery units in the western state of Gujarat, officials said Friday.
New video shows what it was like when gunfire ripped through a cafe at one of Mumbai's main train stations.
Serial bomb explosions ripped through India's remote northeastern state of Tripura on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring about 100, authorities said.
A series of explosions across New Delhi killed at least 10 people Saturday and injured 61
Ten members of a banned Islamic group were arrested Saturday in connection with a series of bombings last month in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, police said, according to CNN sister network CNN-IBN.
As the state of Gujarat limped toward normalcy after synchronized bombings killed 49 people last weekend, residents were rattled again by the discovery of 18 unexploded bombs Tuesday and another Wednesday.
New Delhi used to blame foreigners for terror. But the latest bombings may have emerged from its own Muslim minority
All metropolitan areas in India were on high alert Sunday after 17 blasts hit the western city of Ahmedabad within a little more than an hour, killing at least 29 people, according to police and government officials.
CNN's Sara Sidner reports that the media may have had some warning before the explosions.
At least 29 people were killed and 88 wounded when a series of small explosions hit the western Indian city of Ahmadabad on Saturday
Jyoti is the Hindi word for light. It's something Pranav Mehta has never had to live without. And he is lucky. Near where he lives in Gujarat -- one of the most prosperous states in India -- thousands of rural villages lack electricity or struggle with an intermittent supply at best.
At least 44 people -- mostly children -- were killed after a bus ran off the road and plunged into a canal on Wednesday, a police official said.
India bus crash
updated: Wed Apr 16 2008 10:33:00
A bus plunged into a canal in India, killing at least 45 people.
A premature baby that fell through the toilet on a moving train is reunited with her mother. CNN's Sara Sidner explains.
Fortune: Waste not, want notupdated: Wed Feb 27 2008 04:50:00
Sintex Industries, a plastics and textiles manufacturer in Gujarat, India, is betting it can find profit in human waste. Its new biogas digester turns human excrement, cow dung, or kitchen garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity, simultaneously addressing two of India's major needs: energy and sanitation.
This month's vote in India's Gujarat state is a referendum on its controversial chief minister, Narendra Modi -- and an indicator of how far it has come since the sectarian riots of 2002
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places. For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.
Earthworms eat India's dangerous toxic waste. CNN's Andrew Stevens reports.
The apparent attempt to detonate a bomb in central London has clear parallels with another major plot which was foiled by police in 2004, security experts say.
Cars in London rigged as bombs
A state-owned company's sales of vibrating prophylactics has some Indian politicians accusing the national government of immorality
Indonesia said on Tuesday testing had confirmed that a man who died in September was positive for bird flu, raising the number of deaths from the virus in the country to four.
Unless you are a vegetarian Hindu from the Indian state of Gujarat, don't bother applying for an apartment at the Mayfair Residency in the upmarket Mumbai suburb of Khar.
Kishor C. Bhatt picked up the body parts of a Christian woman who was torn apart when she was hit by a truck and placed them in a bag.
The dispute over a historic religious site in the northern town of Ayodhya has come to define the often fiery mix of politics and religion in India.
The casualty toll in the collision between a freight train and a passenger train in the western Indian state of Gujarat has risen to 15 dead and 20 seriously injured, a railway official said.
A deadly head-on collision between two passenger trains in India's northern Punjab state has killed at least 34 people and injured dozens more, a railway official told CNN.
An independent and global generation is coming out in India as the South Asian nation rushes headlong into an era of prosperity.
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet has crashed near the city of Jamnagar in northwestern Gujarat state killing three villagers and injuring 10 others.
Ugly incidents of racial violence, threats, harassment, and open insults to minority students on various college campuses across the country have attracted increasing press attention in recent year...
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