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An Indian man, who had gone to attend the last rites of his brother following the latter's death due to a snakebite, also died after being bitten by a snake.

A 30-year-old woman, Mandeep Kaur, who was abused by her husband brutally for eight years, allegedly died by suicide at her house in New York.

An elderly woman was found inside cardboard boxes on the side of a highway after being dumped by her family in Puebla, Mexico.

It took Indian police more than 30 years to arrest the man wanted in connection with an alleged robbery and murder case.

A 26-year-old pregnant woman managed to deliver her baby minutes before she died after being mowed by a truck in the Firozabad city of Uttar Pradesh in India.

An elderly woman's pet pit bull killed her by ripping her stomach open at her house in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Villagers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh captured and tied up a 13-foot crocodile who they believed had swallowed a 7-year-old boy.

India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by next year, according to a United Nations report.

A 25-year-old man killed a woman by slitting her throat after she rejected his sexual advances at the latter's apartment complex in east Delhi, India.

A woman and her six-year-old daughter were allegedly gangraped in a moving car in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

A distressing video from the Indian state of Nagaland shows three men brutally torturing a Great Indian Hornbill.

In a bizarre and shocking incident reported from the Indian state of Odisha, an elephant killed a 70-year-old woman.

In a heart-wrenching video from the Indian state of Bihar, an elderly couple could be seen begging for money.

Terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has threatened suicide bombings all over India to avenge purported remarks made against Prophet.

A 26-year-old man from the Indian state of West Bengal, allegedly chopped off his wife's right hand.

A British woman on a vacation to India has accused a local masseuse of raping her in front of her partner near a famous beach in Goa.

Two senior Indian bureaucrats posted in the national capital, Delhi, have been transferred to different corners of the country.

India's Supreme Court directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers.

A Muslim school teacher in the Indian state of Assam was arrested for allegedly carrying beef to school in her lunch box.

The floods have been wreaking havoc in the Indian state of Assam with at least eleven people having lost their lives in various flood-related incidents so far.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who spent 31 years in jail in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

An Indian court failed to reach a decision on the question of criminalising rape within marriage, leaving the laws unchanged. The issue can now go to the Supreme Court of the country.

The scorching heatwave that has swept India is not only affecting humans but is also proving deadly for animals. The animal rescuers in the Indian state of Gujarat have come across dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day in the last few weeks.

The residents of the Srikakulam district of India's Andhra Pradesh woke up to a pleasant surprise after a gold-colored chariot washed ashore at Sunnapalli Sea Harbour on Tuesday.

A power cut in an Indian village led to a "bride-groom swap," and two sisters almost marrying the wrong grooms.

An Indian airline has come under fire after it did not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights at Ranchi airport over the weekend.

A 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by four men, was raped again when she went to file a complaint with the police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

An Indian woman's conversation with her father has gone viral on social media with many lauding the woman for what she did with a potential match that she found on a matrimonial website.

Indian authorities seized nearly 90 kg of heroin worth $58m (£46m) from Pipavav port in the western state of Gujarat last week. It had been kept in bags containing heroin-soaked yarn bales.