An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday.
Two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma, an Indian toddler born with four arms and four legs, made her first public appearance Tuesday, a week after surgeons in India successfully removed her additional limbs.
Surgeons in India said a mammoth 40-hour operation on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was going according to plan.
Vimlendu Jha is a natural leader. Just watch him in action.
The United Nations is warning of a massive "health crisis" in southern Asia, where 30 million people have been overwhelmed by the monsoonal rains and flash flooding sweeping across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Monsoon rains in South Asia have driven millions from their homes and caused what the United Nations says is the worst flooding in living memory.
"Progress will be when I can afford to buy good shoes," a poor farmer says.
Police in Mumbai have arrested three people in connection with last week's deadly train attacks that killed at least 182 people and injured hundreds more.
India has launched a manhunt for as many as 400 Indian Maoist guerrillas and hundreds of other prisoners who escaped from a jail in Bihar after an attack by the rebels.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in an explosion aboard a crowded passenger train Thursday in the central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadavsaid.
An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday.
Two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma, an Indian toddler born with four arms and four legs, made her first public appearance Tuesday, a week after surgeons in India successfully removed her additional limbs.
Surgeons in India said a mammoth 40-hour operation on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was going according to plan.
Vimlendu Jha is a natural leader. Just watch him in action.
The United Nations is warning of a massive "health crisis" in southern Asia, where 30 million people have been overwhelmed by the monsoonal rains and flash flooding sweeping across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
Monsoon rains in South Asia have driven millions from their homes and caused what the United Nations says is the worst flooding in living memory.
"Progress will be when I can afford to buy good shoes," a poor farmer says.
Police in Mumbai have arrested three people in connection with last week's deadly train attacks that killed at least 182 people and injured hundreds more.
India has launched a manhunt for as many as 400 Indian Maoist guerrillas and hundreds of other prisoners who escaped from a jail in Bihar after an attack by the rebels.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in an explosion aboard a crowded passenger train Thursday in the central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadavsaid.
After the best monsoon in a decade lifted rural incomes last year, India's vast agricultural sector is grappling with rainfall this year that has been late and erratic.
A massive health crisis is looming in Bangladesh as sewage mixes with floodwaters swirling through Dhaka, the capital of the South Asian country.
More than two weeks after a heavy bout of monsoon rains caused flash floods in several parts of South Asia, officials are still grappling with rescuing people and airlifting aid to millions cut off by the floods.
The death toll from South Asian floods has jumped to at least 374, officials said, as rising waters and overflowing rivers hit towns and villages from Nepal to Bangladesh.
The death toll from South Asian floods has jumped to at least 326 with rising waters and overflowing rivers hitting towns and villages from Nepal to Bangladesh.
A bus carrying wedding guests veered out of control and crashed into a rain-swollen river in eastern India, hours after a boat toppled into the same waterway, and some 65 people were feared killed in the two accidents, police said.
The third phase of India's national elections got under way Wednesday in seven states, mostly in the country's north.
Threats of vioence and calls for a boycott didn't stop millions of Indians from casting their votes in the first stages of a parliamentary election.
A list of some of the major train disasters since 1900:
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