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Proteas women make history in India

The team has displaced the world champions England in the rankings and has the World Cup in its sights

Blasts kill lawyers in Indian courthouses

A series of near-simultaneous explosions ripped through courthouse complexes on Friday in three north Indian cities, killing at least 13 lawyers and injuring dozens more,…

Indian police fired for neglect over child murders

Six Indian police officers have been sacked for apparently failing to act on reports of missing children believed to have been raped and killed, authorities said on Thursday.…

Indian faithful flock to ‘drinking’ idols

Thousands of people flocked to temples in northern India on Monday hoping to see a miracle as word spread that idols of Hindu gods were drinking milk, television reports said.…

Death toll rises in India’s monsoon season

Another 21 people died from lightning and house collapses in northern India, an official said on Saturday, taking the nationwide death toll to at least 328 since the monsoon…

Early monsoon death toll hits 75 in India

The official death toll from lightning strikes and powerful storms rose to 76 on Friday as annual summer monsoon rains tore through India ahead of schedule, authorities said.…

India’s land of the living dead

Lal Bihari made countless rounds of police and government offices, but to no avail. Finally he decided to contest elections to draw attention to his problem: he had been declared…

Spurned suitor blows himself up at Indian wedding

A spurned Indian suitor blew himself up at the wedding of the woman who rejected him, killing himself and injuring the groom and four other people, police said on Saturday.…

More deaths as intense cold grips northern India

Dense fog blanketed northern India, disrupting rail and air traffic, as the death toll from a severe cold wave in India rose to 144 on Tuesday, officials said. In the worst-hit…

Encephalitis toll hits 1 058 in north India

The official death toll from Japanese encephalitis in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reached 1Â 058 on Monday after 12 more children died from the mosquito-borne…

Encephalitis outbreak claims more lives in India

The death toll from an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in northern India rose to 664 on Monday with 18 more deaths as doctors appealed for more ventilators to save the lives of…

Toll from Indian encephalitis outbreak reaches 460

The death toll from Japanese encephalitis rose to 460 in a northern Indian state after 28 more people died overnight from an outbreak of the mosquito-born disease, officials said…

Encephalitis death toll reaches 267 in India

Japanese encephalitis has killed 14 more people in northern India, taking the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 267, officials said on Tuesday. The new deaths were…

Heavy downpours kill 36 in India

Torrential rain killed at least 36 people and washed away houses and farms in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday. Thirty-five of the people,…