In Bihar, the death toll has reached 514, with people still living in makeshift huts days after the flooding started... READ MORE›
India is used to regular flooding during monsoon season from June to September, especially in Mumbai, where millions live in shantytowns with poor drainage... READ MORE›
Flooding and landslides resulting from monsoon rains have directly affected at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, the United Nations says... READ MORE›
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that 24 million people have been affected by the floods, with large areas of land submerged in water... READ MORE›
Ashish Ranjan, a resident of Araria district in the eastern part of the state, said the impact of the flood was massive... READ MORE›
More than 16 million people have been affected by monsoon flooding across the South Asian countries of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh... READ MORE›
That decade saw aggressive sterilisation campaigns which have stigmatised family planning ever since... READ MORE›
About 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on the pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said on Friday... READ MORE›
Manoj Sinha, a government railway official, said more than 400 yards of track had been damaged by the flooding... READ MORE›
The paper quoted a senior army official as saying candidates being asked to strip was an administrative lapse ... READ MORE›
Rat poison linked to india sterilisation deaths with death toll expected to rise... READ MORE›
Can India's gigantic prohibition experiment succeed, 80 years after America's failed?... READ MORE›
A coalition led by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party BJP won 58 of the 243 seats in the Bihar legislative assembly... READ MORE›
The summons was meant for the temple management and not the god, Hashim Khan, Rohtas deputy development commissioner, said... READ MORE›
More than 1,600 teachers in a north Indian state have resigned after a court told all educational staff with fraudulent qualifications to quit or face legal action... READ MORE›
The Kamayani Express was en route to Mumbai when it derailed around midnight on Tuesday night near the town of Harda in Madhya Pradesh state... READ MORE›
Street harassment and violence, sometimes called eve-teasing, is even more common, experienced by 79 percent of Indian women according to a recent survey... READ MORE›
Exams held by the Bihar School Examination Board BSEB are viewed as make-or-break tests that could transform the lives of millions growing up in poverty... READ MORE›
It happened as people were leaving the Dusshera festival at Patna, the capital of Bihar state in eastern India, on Friday evening... READ MORE›
There is no possibility of finding any person alive, said SS Guleria, deputy inspector general of India's national disaster response force... READ MORE›
The Indian Meteorological Department advised that heatwave conditions were prevailing at a few places over Bihar and Jharkhand... READ MORE›
Ten people were killed by lightning in neighbouring Jharkhand state, six in northern Uttar Pradesh state, and another in Maharashtra, police said... READ MORE›
According to the National Crime Record Bureau, at least 2000 deaths in India have been associated with lightning in every year since 2005... READ MORE›
By comparison, there were 15,937 forest fires recorded in 2015, 19,054 in 2014, and 18,451 in 2013... READ MORE›
A million people across three states have also been forced into relief camps... READ MORE›
A wild elephant went on a rampage in a village in India's eastern West Bengal state on Wednesday, damaging around 100 structures, villagers said... READ MORE›
Another 15 to 20 people have recieved injuries SN Pradhan additional director general of police in Jharkhand state where the accident occurred told AFP... READ MORE›
Floods are an annual occurrence in Assam, Bihar and many parts of India during the June-September monsoon season... READ MORE›
Thus, even if participants at the Amnesty meeting did raise anti-India slogans, this does not amount to sedition as they did not incite violence... READ MORE›
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