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Desperate farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India

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.

Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India

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.

Brain-swelling disease kills dozens in India

Doctors say an encephalitis outbreak has killed 130 people -- mostly children -- in northern India since January.

Indian police accused of torture

Police in India summarily execute prisoners, torture and threaten suspects and arrest people without reason, a leading rights group said Tuesday.

India elections: Facts behind world's biggest vote

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.

11 die as train hits wedding bus in India

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 pilgrims die in Indian bus crash

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.

Flooding deaths now 2,400 in monsoon-hit India

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.

135 feared dead in India flooding

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.

Indian cities on high alert after blasts

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.

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