Dozens of people have died in Pakistan and India's northern Rajasthan state amid flash floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains, officials said Thursday.
Police in the northern India state of Rajasthan say they were stunned when a man showed up at a police outpost holding a bloody human head in one hand and a sword in another.
The U.N. says India is the most dangerous place to be born a girl. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Eighteen-year-old Laxmi Sargara found out she was married when her parents-in-law came to tell her that in a few days time they'd come back to take her to live with them.
How did buildings keep cool before the invention of air conditioning? As architects consider how to reduce the energy demands of new builds, some are turning to the past for simple, low-tech solutions.
Award winning architect Manit Rastogi looks back to his Mughal heritage to create green buildings of the future.
In a New Delhi hospital, a two-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a teenager brought her there three weeks ago, unconscious with severe head injuries and bruises, fractured arms and human bite marks covering her tiny body.
Author Salman Rushdie now believes police lied to him about a threat to his life to keep him away from India's largest literary festival.
World famous author Salman Rushdie canceled his trip to India due to an assassination threat. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
The head of Rajasthan's health ministry denied reports that more than 40 patients have died in recent days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in the Indian state.
Thousands of doctors are on strike in India and some patients say their loved ones are dying. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
More than 40 patients have died in the last five days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in India's Rajasthan state, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported Sunday.
At Zenana hospital in the western Indian city of Jaipur, Nasroon Bano died after giving birth. Her family blamed it on the absence of doctors.
Thousands of doctors from public hospitals are striking for better pay in India.
An Indian state has announced two days of mourning for a former king and a war hero, who died over the weekend.
A government hospital in western India has found infected intravenous fluids (IVs) in its stocks after 12 women in labor died in 10 days from excessive hemorrhage, its head said.
A man was killed in northern India Tuesday while talking on a mobile phone that exploded, police said Friday.
At least eight people were killed when a truck carrying them crashed on its side in western India Sunday, police said.
A bus plummeted 70 feet into a dry riverbed in northwestern India on Monday, killing at least 26 passengers and injuring 34 others, police said.
A biting cold snap lingered across sections of northern India Monday, hitting the homeless hardest in some of the country's most impoverished regions.
Six passengers were killed and 20 injured when a train derailed in northwestern India early Saturday, officials said.
Three people were killed and six others were missing in a massive fire at an oil depot in north-western India, authorities said Friday.
Locally known as the Rainman of Rajasthan, Rajendra Singh teaches Indian students how to capture and utilize rain.
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Some call him the River Maker, others the Rainman of Rajasthan. His real name is Rajendra Singh. His nicknames come from his self-imposed mission to solve his state's water problems, one raindrop at a time.
A stifling heat wave gripped more than a dozen states across India Friday, pushing the mercury to record levels in some areas.
An Indian fighter jet crashed in the country's west Thursday, killing one of its two pilots, air force officials said.
Concerns about alcohol abuse have been making headlines this week.
Hanso Devi moved to New Delhi from Rajasthan with just one hope -- to make a better life for herself and her family.
Are India's efforts to beautify before the commonwealth games leaving some out in the cold? CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory killed at least 26 people in India's western city of Deeg, in the state of Rajasthan, police said Thursday.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday on Tuesday, police said.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
Farming families in India's cotton belt are being diagnosed with cancer at alarming rates -- and many say pesticides are to blame
Members of an Indian ethnic community burned effigies, squatted on railroad tracks and blocked highways Thursday in an attempt to bring part of the country to a halt in a protest over caste classification.
Members of the Gujjar community protests in New Delhi. They want to be reclassified as part of the lowest caste.
At least 35 people have been killed in three days of riots over class discrimination in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.
A series of deadly blasts in a Jaipur market once again expose the country's vulnerability to terror attacks
India is on high alert after a series of near-simultaneous explosions killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 others in a top tourist spot, government and local officials told CNN-IBN.
The aftermath of several explosions in a crowded market in Jaipur, India.
Video courtesy APMadonna took a break Tuesday from her family holiday in India to tour the slums of Mumbai.
At least three people have been killed and 20 more injured following an explosion at a revered Islamic shrine in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, CNN sister station CNN-IBN reported on Thursday.
The country is preoccupied by two popular actors facing prison time. Their respective cases have all the drama and plot twists of a Bollywood movie come to life
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Bollywood star Salman Khan was arrested by Indian police on Saturday and sent to jail after a court rejected his appeal against a five-year sentence for shooting endangered gazelles.
In Gudda, a village with very little, residents are literally beaming. Just two years ago, villagers had never seen light after dark, unless it came from the moon. Then, solar light arrived and changed everything.
Solar power lights village
Lawmakers voted Thursday in an election widely expected to give India its first female president, although the milestone has been marred by controversy and mudslinging
Those left out of India's rapid economic boom are feuding over entitlements under the country's overburdened affirmative action system
Anuradha Rathore knows of no women doctors in her native village or its surrounding area.
Looks like Tom Petty won't back down after all.
Riding an elephant to the top of the amber fort in India's desert state city Jaipur is a must-do tourist attraction, but city living is not ideal for the animals.
Always shifting, always moving, Delhi is a seething mass of culture and poverty, which exemplifies the highs and the lows of human existence. Formerly a stopover point en route to the Taj Mahal, the northern star of India has shrugged off its reputation as just a gateway to Agra and Rajasthan to become a destination in its own right.
It was four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon in Mumbai, and I was off to a slum to talk to a eunuch.
Overseas visitors to India this year should top 3 million as the nation's "Incredible India" promotion campaign delivers annual growth of 15 to 20 percent.
The third phase of India's national elections got under way Wednesday in seven states, mostly in the country's north.
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