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Dozens Feared Dead As Train Plows Through Crowd Of Revelers In India

4:40pm October 19, 2018

by Amy Held

One official said the local response was on par with a "war footing" as emergency workers tended to the dead and injured among crowds celebrating a Hindu festival.

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#MeToo Movement Gathers Force In India

6:32pm October 16, 2018

A year after sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein catapulted #MeToo into a national movement in the U.S., women in India are using Facebook and Twitter to tell their stories.

Susheela Kumari, an attendant at a cow shelter, collects urine to be processed in Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Cow Dung Soap Is Cleaning Up In India

12:43pm October 03, 2018

by Sushmita Pathak

Some Indians say that cow dung and urine have healing properties. Science says otherwise. Nonetheless, there's a growing enthusiasm for dung- and urine-based products.

Ashok Kumar distributes government food rations to customer Leela Devi at his shop near Ramgarh, in India's Jharkhand state.

India's Biometric ID System Has Led To Starvation For Some Poor, Advocates Say

8:45pm October 01, 2018

The world's biggest biometric system, with iris scans of 1.2 billion people, was designed to help the poor. But it has sparked concerns about privacy and in some cases has exacerbated starvation.

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The hands of a mehendi (henna)-decorated bride is pictured in Mumbai in 2014. India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that makes adultery a crime.

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Women Are Not 'Chattel,' Says India's Supreme Court In Striking Down Adultery Law

12:32pm September 27, 2018

The five justices said the law is unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master." The ruling comes barely two weeks after the high court decriminalized gay sex.

Nandita Venkatesan, a TB survivor, spoke at the U.N.'s first high-level meeting on tuberculosis. "It's humbling," she says. "Not long ago I was just a girl lying in bed with a hopeless future."

Life After TB: She Is Deaf, She Still Dances, She Addressed The U.N. Today

1:55pm September 26, 2018

by Rachel D. Cohen

Nandita Venkatesan of Mumbai, India, has survived two rounds of tuberculosis though one treatment caused her to go deaf. She now advocates for other TB patients and survivors.

Relatives mourn before the funeral for family members who reportedly died by suicide at their home in Burari, India, this summer.

Health & Safety

Suicide By Women Is A Major Public Health Concern In India

4:08pm September 25, 2018

by Kamala Thiagarajan

A newly published study on suicide offers startling revelations about the rates for women and men.

India's Abhilash Tomy gestures on his boat Thuriya as he sets off from Les Sables d'Olonne Harbour on July 1 at the start of the solo around-the-world "Golden Globe Race" ocean race in which sailors compete without high technology aides such as GPS or com

Sailor Rescued At Sea After Dismasting During Round-The-World Race

9:13am September 24, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Abhilash Tomy, an Indian navy commander participating in the arduous non-stop, unassisted race, called for help on Friday after his boat was rolled in an Indian Ocean storm.

Revelers in Mumbai hoist up a statue of the elephant-headed god Ganesh and parade it toward the Arabian Sea.

Indians Are Partying And Praying For Elephant-Headed God Ganesh

5:30am September 22, 2018

by Lauren Frayer

For 10 days, they sing, dance, chant and pray at the feet of Ganesh statues, then submerge them in water. The festival was once used to circumvent British rule.

Sampath, 63, planted these oil palm trees on his farm in Tamil Nadu, India, 12 years ago, but has yet to turn a profit.

Amid Palm Oil Boycott, India Wants To Produce More Of It

4:43pm September 21, 2018

by Lauren Frayer

India is the world's biggest consumer of palm oil, a crop which threatens the country's water supply and is linked to deforestation. But the government faces little opposition to expand plantations.