Indian authorities offered to free 27 prisoners in return for the release of an Italian citizen and a local legislator held hostage by Maoist rebels in the eastern state of Orissa.
Maoist insurgents have released one of the two Italians held hostage in eastern India since March 14, officials said Monday.
The government has appointed negotiators as a hostage crisis involving two Italians kidnapped in eastern India stretched into a second week Wednesday.
At least 26 people have died in flooding in eastern India over the past week, but waters are now receding, authorities say.
It has been dubbed India's version of the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar." And just like the movie, the indigenous group fighting to save its sacred homeland has won a major fight.
The Indian government rejects Vedanta's plans to mine bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
My research trip to Bangladesh ended near the town of Srimongol, where I investigated the country's tea industry. Much like their shrimp processing kinsmen to the south, the tea factories were locked down like prisons.
Campaigners fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples have appealed to the makers of the movie "Avatar" to help an Indian tribe protect its home from a real-life threat.
A bus carrying about 40 passengers sank in an overflowing canal in eastern India, killing seven of them, officials said Tuesday.
An Indian court has handed down the first conviction in a series of attacks on Christians in an eastern state last year, authorities said Wednesday.
The death toll from stifling heat in eastern India has risen to 31, officials said Monday.
The death-toll from sunstroke has risen to at least 22 in eastern India although the grueling heat wave sweeping across many parts of the country is abating, authorities said.
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.
Four suspected Maoists and 10 federal security officers died in an hours-long shootout Monday in eastern India.
A tornado ripped through more than 60 villages along India's eastern coast, killing 10 and injuring around 100 people, officials said Wednesday.
At least 14 people are feared dead following a train derailment in eastern India Friday, officials said.
A mob killed a Hindu man in the Indian state of Orissa Thursday as another group attacked a church in another part of the state's troubled Kandhamal district, authorities said Friday.
New flooding in and around Orissa, India, leave half a million villagers stranded. (No audio)
At least 135 people have died in the last two days in India as a result of flooding, bringing the death toll in monsoon floods to 2,364 since June, according to disaster-management officials in India.
Three weeks of religious tensions between Hindus and Christians continue when a mob attacked a police station.
Three weeks after an apparent misunderstanding sparked a confrontation, deadly Hindu-Christian riots continue unabated in the remote east Indian state of Orissa.
The remote east Indian state of Orissa, historically a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions, erupted in violence this week after gunmen killed a Hindu leader and mobs burned churches in retaliation.
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.
Low-caste Hindus are converting to Christianity in an attempt to escape their spot at the bottom of India's social hierarchy, and sparking religious violence in the process
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
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