India's scandal-tainted government has come under fresh attack from opposition parties after a leading newspaper ran a front-page report alleging that auditors had found that the awarding of coal fields to private companies had deprived the treasury of $211 billion.
A train rammed into a van trying to cross unguarded railroad tracks in northern India Tuesday, killing 15 people and injuring three others, officials said.
India's ruling Congress party has suffered a crushing defeat in local elections that are considered a litmus test for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government.
Voters in India's most populous and politically important state went to the polls Wednesday, in the first of seven ballots to select members for the 403-seat assembly.
Sara Sidner reports that private companies in India have put together everything needed for a new Formula One race.
Suspected separatist rebels sprayed a polling center with bullets Saturday afternoon in the Indian state of Manipur, killing at least five people.
India approved quotas for minority groups Thursday in a move that was widely seen as the ruling party's attempt to woo Muslim voters in a key state.
Last year I traveled to a small village in Uttar Pradesh, India, where I met a young mother named Rukmini, who had recently given birth to a daughter. It was the sixth day of baby Durga's life, and in keeping with Indian custom, Rukmini was preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the special bond between mother and child.
At least 435 patients, mostly children, have died this year from encephalitis in one of India's most impoverished regions, health officials said.
An Indian politician accused in U.S. diplomatic cables of sending a private jet to fetch a pair of sandals denied the allegations on Tuesday and said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had gone "mad."
At least 64 people were killed after a train carrying them jumped tracks in northern India on Sunday, a local official said.
Dozens of people were killed when a train jumped its tracks and derailed in northern India.
At least 33 people died and 17 were injured when a train collided Thursday with a bus in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, authorities said.
Soot covers the ceiling, fixtures dangle out of the walls and fan blades, a wrecked bike and broken furniture are strewn across the floor of her dark small home.
Indian farmers say they are being shortchanged in land deals. CNN's Pauline Chiou reports.
Thirty-six people in northern India are dead and another 28 are injured following a collision between a bus and a vehicle carrying mourners from a funeral, a news agency reported Sunday, citing local officials.
A disputed holy site in India will be divided in an attempt to satisfy competing religious claims to the site, the Allahabad High Court ruled Thursday.
India's high court rules a holy site will be divided between the Muslim community and two Hindu groups.
A court in India is set to rule soon on who owns a small patch of land in Uttar Pradesh, up in the north -- and India is on high alert waiting for the result.
At least 14 people were dead and dozens more missing, after a boat capsized in northern India Monday, authorities said.
A powerful storm has killed at least 54 people in northern and eastern India, authorities said Saturday.
As many as 63 people -- most of them children -- were killed Thursday when a stampede broke out at a temple offering free utensils and food in northern India, authorities said.
A giveaway turns deadly as thousands stampede in a northern Indian temple. CNN's Rosemary Church reports.
A bus carrying wedding guests fell into a river in northern India early Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, 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.
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
Are debt ridden farmers in India being forced to sell their wives as repayment for loans? CNN Sara Sidner reports.
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
Doctors say an encephalitis outbreak has killed 130 people -- mostly children -- in northern India since January.
Police in India summarily execute prisoners, torture and threaten suspects and arrest people without reason, a leading rights group said Tuesday.
Indians are voting in their tens of millions in a monthlong general election that creates huge logistical issues in the world's largest democracy. The first round of polling was held on April 16. There are a further five voting phases before the final count is due on May 16.
A train crashed into a bus packed with wedding guests at an unguarded railroad crossing in northern India, killing 11, officials said Sunday.
More than 60 people have died after a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire and burned on a highway in northern India, police said Wednesday.
The death toll from monsoon floods in eastern India rose to more than 2,400 Tuesday as authorities reported that another 32 people had perished in the disaster that has affected millions of people.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh easily won a vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament on Tuesday evening, more than two hours behind schedule but with a comfortable margin of victory
A man, incensed that a 6-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned.
Police in northern India have arrested six Islamic militants who were headed to the country's financial capital, Mumbai, to carry out suicide attacks on the stock exchange, officials told CNN Monday.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
Blasts outside courts in three northern Indian cities on Friday, have killed at least eight people, CNN-IBN TV has reported.
The aftermath of near-simultaneous blasts detonated outside courts in three northern Indian cities.
As chain stores move to capitalize on India's emerging middle class, opposition is growing from its legions of small shopkeepers and state governments
Thirteen policemen were suspended Thursday for failing to prevent rioting that left one person dead and forced a curfew in the northern Indian city that is home to the Taj Mahal, a police official said.
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.
Flooding devastates India
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.
Millions marooned in floods
Anuradha Rathore knows of no women doctors in her native village or its surrounding area.
A previously unknown militant group claimed responsibility for Tuesday's bombings in the holy Indian city of Varanasi that killed 14 people, and threatened additional violence.
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi killed 14 people, Indian authorities have told CNN.
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi have killed 14 people and wounded dozens more, Indian authorities have told CNN.
In her first major interview since turning down the Indian prime ministership in May 2004, Sonia Gandhi says she has no regrets over her decision not to take up the post.
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.
The third phase of India's national elections got under way Wednesday in seven states, mostly in the country's north.
Exit polls from the second round of India's staggered parliamentary elections show opposition congress party gains over the ruling coalition.
Twenty-one people have been killed in India in a stampede as people rushed to receive gifts of free clothing to mark a politician's birthday.
Fourteen people are feared dead after a boat carrying 27 people capsized in the Ganges River, Indian authorities say.
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