India

India on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighbouring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly.

Three Indian climbers and one Nepali guide died on Mount Everest in the past couple of days, taking to seven the total number killed or missing on the world's highest mountain in this year's climbing season.

Rescue workers were working to see if anyone was trapped in the debris after a bridge collapsed in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, government officials said.

Eighteen men appeared in court in the Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday on charges of repeatedly raping a 12-year girl over a seven-month period.

At least 40 people were killed when a packed bus spun off a slippery road and fell into a deep ravine in northern India, officials say.

Thousands of people took to the streets in central India this week demanding the death penalty for assailants who raped a seven-year-old girl lured away from school as she waited to be picked up by her parents.

India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released.

ABC has apologised to Indian fans of its crime drama 'Quantico' after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage against lead actor Priyanka Chopra.

India began a fresh round of tests to trace the origin of a rare brain-damaging virus that has killed 13 people as initial tests on animals suspected of carrying the Nipah virus showed no sign of the disease.

Police have arrested 22 people in eastern India in three separate rape cases involving teenage girls, officials said, as grisly new attacks against women come to light despite tougher penalties.

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An all-female police motorbike squad is set to take to Delhi's streets next month, a senior police official said, as reports of violence against women rise in the Indian capital.

A Wellington-based film worker has been fatally gored by a bull in India.