A court in India has sent to prison a man who was found guilty of posing as the son of a wealthy landlord for 41 years. The BBC's Soutik Biswas pieces together a gripping tale of deceit and delay in justice.
In February 1977, a teenage boy (...)
A man in India got jabbed with a Covid-19 vaccine at least eight times last year, a health official said.
Brahmdeo Mandal, 65, has claimed that he received 11 doses of the vaccine in Bihar state.
The retired postman said the jabs had helped him to (...)
Police in eastern India say a speeding jeep plowed through a group of schoolchildren crossing a road, killing nine and injuring 10 of them, AP reported.
Police officer Vivek Kumar says the jeep first hit and injured two adult female pedestrians on (...)
At least six workers have been killed in a coal mine accident in eastern India, and police said Friday that 17 others could remain trapped in the mine.
S.K. Singh, the general manager of the Rajmahal Open Cast Mines in the eastern Indian state of (...)
At least six workers have been killed in a coal mine accident in eastern India, and police said Friday that 17 others could remain trapped in the mine.
S.K. Singh, the general manager of the Rajmahal Open Cast Mines in the eastern Indian state of (...)
At least eight Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed in an attack by Maoist rebels in a forest area in eastern India, police said early Tuesday, according to AP.
Police officer P.K Sahu said three insurgents also were killed in an exchange of (...)
Lightning has killed 74 people, mostly farm laborers working in fields, across eastern and northern India over the past 24 hours, AP cited officials as saying Wednesday.
A majority of the deaths occurred in the eastern state of Bihar, where 57 (...)
A passenger bus fell into a dry river bed after crashing through the railing of a bridge in central India, killing 16 people, AP cited police as saying.
Police say the crash occurred Wednesday night when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle as (...)
With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more (...)
With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people, (...)
Police say Maoist rebels have killed at least seven paramilitary soldiers by blowing up their armored vehicle in central India, AP Reported.
Top police officer R.K. Sahu says the rebels detonated a roadside land mine on Wednesday near Malewara, a (...)
In 2004, Khitish Kumar Pandey took 10,000 rupees ($150) out of his pension and put it into a savings plan run by India's embattled Sahara conglomerate. The Sahara agent told him his money would triple in 10 years.
Sahara India Pariwar (family) had (...)
Two train accidents in eastern and north India have claimed at least 14 lives, police and railroad officials said Tuesday, AP reported.
A speeding train rammed into an SUV at an unmanned railroad crossing in eastern India killing all 13 people in (...)
Narendra Modi conceded defeat Sunday in a key election in Bihar, one of India's poorest and largest states, in a major blow for the prime minister who fronted a no-holds barred campaign.
Modi's Hindu nationalist party was leading in only 58 seats in (...)
Indian police killed 12 Maoist insurgents on Tuesday in a shootout with a group suspected of planning to extort money from mining contractors in the east of the country, a spokesman said, according to Reuters.
Police, acting on a tip-off, tightened (...)
A van collided with a small three-wheeled vehicle packed with 11 teenage students in eastern India on Monday, killing five students and injuring six others, AP quoted police as saying.
Police originally said the students, aged 15-16, were traveling (...)
Police say a group of Maoist rebels have ambushed policemen on patrol in a central Indian forest and killed seven, AP reported.
R.K. Vij, a top police official in Chhattisgarh state, says the police were part of a special task force who were (...)
A bus driver lost control of his vehicle on a sharp curve on a mountain road in eastern India and plunged into a gorge, killing at least 11 people, police said Monday.
Twenty-six passengers were injured, some critically, in the accident in Garhwa (...)
An official says at least six villagers were killed when an overcrowded rowboat capsized while crossing a dam's waters in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
Jamui district magistrate Sashikant Tiwary says authorities are searching for another nine (...)
Two trains derailed in eastern India on Wednesday, killing at least four people, AP quoted officials as saying.
Eleven coaches of the Rajdhani Express passenger train went off the tracks near Chhapra town in Bihar state, killing four passengers and (...)
A train ran over a group of people crossing railroad tracks in eastern India early Monday, killing at least 35 people. An angry mob beat the driver severely and set fire to coaches in retaliation, officials said, according to AP.
The people were (...)
The principal of a primary school in eastern India where 23 children died last week after eating lunch prepared with contaminated oil was arrested Wednesday, nine days after she went into hiding, police said.
Meena Kumari fled as soon as the (...)
Post-mortem reports on 22 children who died this week after eating a school lunch in eastern India confirmed that insecticide was either in the food or cooking oil, a doctor said Thursday.
Patna Medical College hospital superintendent Amarkant Jha (...)
At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in a school in (...)
Investigators have detained one man and prepared sketches of two others as they investigate a series of blasts at some of Buddhism's holiest sites in eastern India.
Two people were wounded in the eight blasts that went off Sunday in Bodhgaya, (...)
