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AHMEDABAD, He remains one of India's most prized voters. Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas is the lone voter in the midst of Gujarat's Gir forest, home to the Asiatic lion, for whom an entire election team sets up a polling booth every election - and will do so again on April 30. Darshandas, in his early 60s, is the lone occupant of a hamlet called Banej ... (more)

With a tight budget and a humble autorickshaw, a pioneering Indian transgender is campaigning in her southern hometown for a seat in parliament, just days after the country's highest court recognized "third gender" people.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 192, which was headed to Bangalore, India, has turned around and is returning to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the airline said Sunday.

Tobey and Todd Thurston hold a portrait of Mahesh Paratan, 10, a young boy from Hyderabad, India who they're trying to adopt on April 11, 2014 in Lynchburg, Va.

New Delhi, April 20: It is Sunday and in a park in south Delhi's Shahpur Jat urban village, a 17-year-old boy is talking about the environment, hygiene and sanitation to a discerning audience of children.

New Delhi, April 19: Union minister Shashi Tharoor Saturday said that Congress was set to put up a good show in Tamil Nadu in the ongoing general elections to Lok Sabha, saying that voters were "very enthusiastic" about it decision to shun alliances and go alone.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will campaign in Gujarat on April 24 while party vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be in the state on April 26. Admiral RK Dhowan has taken over as the 22nd Chief of Naval Staff of Independent India.

Agartala, April 19: A court in Tripura Saturday sent a Kolkata-based doctor to 14 days judicial custody on charges of cheating two Tripura residents by taking money and promising their sons admission in medical colleges in Bangalore.

Srinagar, April 19: Two guerrillas were arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town Saturday and an AK-47 assault rifle seized from them, police said Saturday.

Patna, April 19: Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari said Saturday that there is casteism in Bihar's DNA, but soon realised that he has made a controversial statement.

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians, under their initiative 'Education For All', have invited nine underprivileged children from various Mumbai-based NGOs to Dubai as part of the experiential tour and to watch today's Indian Premier League clash between Mumbai and Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Eight years after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that kirpans - the ceremonial daggers worn by those of the Sikh faith - could be safely brought into schools under certain conditions, they will now be allowed into all Canadian embassies and missions abroad.

Born a boy biologically and given the male name Abhijit, Aher grew up in a middle-class neighborhood of Mumbai, India.

An Indian woman has her finger inked by an elections worker before voting at a polling station on April 17, 2014 in the Jodhpur District in the desert state of Rajasthan, India.

New Delhi, April 18: Three students of Jawaharlal Nehru University were killed within the campus when their motorcycle hit a divider and a tree, police said Friday.

New Delhi, April 18: Model-actress Dipannita Sharma, who will be next seen in horror movie "Pizza 3D", says that the genre is evolving.

Voters display their voter identity cards as they wait for their turn to cast their ballot at a polling station in Uttar Pradesh.

Dowry troubl e: The burden of paying high dowries for brides is the main reason poor families prefer to have sons rather than daughters.

Chelsea Clinton, the 34-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, announced Thursday that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child this fall.

In the fields of wheat outside of Sikar, change is stirring. Young women, once rarely educated, now go to school, even college, and consider careers and lives shut-off to their mothers.