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AP PHOTOS: A look at India's Kumbh Mela festival
Once every 12 years, tens of millions of Indians gather for one of Hinduism's holiest celebrations at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the ...
India's budget to push growth, rein in inflation
India's finance minister Thursday unveiled a national budget with a promise to put Asia's third largest economy back on a path of high growth and to ...
Defense questions FBI agent in NY cannibal plot
A defense attorney for a police officer accused in a cannibalism plot pressed an FBI agent to explain where fantasy ends and reality begins Wednesday ...
Fire at illegal market In India kills at least 19
A fire broke out at an illegal six-story plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata early Wednesday, killing at least 19 people, police said.
India orders probe into Finmeccanica copter deal
India's top investigative agency is looking into the role a former air force chief played in a $750 million helicopter contract marred by reports of ...
India's secret executions raise concerns
For 11 years the family of a convicted terrorist waited and wondered about his fate as he sat on death row. Two weeks ago they found out — from ...
Adolf Hitler stumping for votes in Indian election
Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein. The tiny northeast Indian state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for ...
Indian police search for evidence in bomb attack
Indian police are investigating whether a shadowy Islamic militant group was responsible for a dual bomb attack that killed 16 people outside a movie ...
Rape and killing of 3 young sisters shocks India
Police were searching villages in western India on Friday for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters, as Indians still angry over the ...
Twin bombings kill 14, wound more in south India
A day after two bicycle bombs killed 14 people and wounded more than 100, investigators into India's worst bombing in more than a year searched Friday ...
British premier lays wreath at India massacre site
Britain's prime minister laid a mourning wreath Wednesday at the site of a notorious 1919 massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces, ...
Baubles to bars: India gold culture defies curbs
India's steep new tax on gold imports doesn't deter Mousumi Rao as she holds up a glittering $5,000 filigree necklace that could adorn her daughter ...
India puts $750M Italian helicopter deal on hold
India's Defense Ministry said Friday that it has put a $750 million contract to purchase helicopters from Italian company Finmeccanica on hold amid ...
Indian troops kill Pakistani soldier in Kashmir
Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the makeshift border separating Indian and Pakistani held Kashmir, officials said ...
India inflation drops to 3-year low of 6.6 percent
India's stubbornly high inflation eased to a three-year low of 6.6 percent in January, a glimmer of good economic news that adds to expectations the ...
World gold sales slip for first time in 3 years
Global gold sales slipped in 2012 for the first time in three years as the biggest central bank purchases in half a century weren't able to offset a ...
Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Nepal
A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline, set himself ablaze and chanted anti-China slogans as he ran down a street in Nepal's capital ...
3 dead in Indian Kashmir protests after man hanged
Three young people have died in violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a curfew that continued for a third day Monday following the execution ...
37 dead in stampede at Hindu festival in India
Anxious relatives searched for missing family members in northern India on Monday during one of the world's largest religious gatherings, unsure if ...
36 dead in stampede at Hindu festival in India
Anxious relatives were searching for missing family members Monday in a northern India city that is home to one of the world's largest religious ...
1 dead in Indian Kashmir protests after man hanged
One person was killed as protests broke out in at least two parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday despite a strict curfew to prevent violence ...
India hangs man for 2001 attack on Parliament
A Kashmiri man convicted in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that left 14 people dead was hanged Saturday after a final mercy plea was rejected, ...
South Africans called to action on raped teenager
The chime sounds every four minutes on the radio station, reminding listeners that statistically yet another child or woman in South Africa is being ...
Eye-catching rickshaws promote peace in Pakistan
Pakistani youth leader Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi has a plan to counter the relentless message of violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups in his ...