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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.

Kolkata, April 17: A fire broke out in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's hotel room in Malda district Thursday evening but she was evacuated in time and is safe, party leaders said.

Indian gay rights activists hold placards and shout slogans in January against a recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes homosexuality in New Delhi, India.

An Indian court said Thursday it won't rule before July 1 on the case of a New York City police officer arrested in New Delhi on a weapons charge.

Nationwide voting began April 7 and runs through May 12, with results for the 543-seat lower house of Parliament to be announced four days later.

Indians cast ballots Thursday on the biggest day of voting in the country's weekslong general election, streaming into polling stations even in areas where rebels threatened violence over the plight of India's marginalized and poor.

The idea struck Rajiv Singh during a business trip to Germany, when a man arrived with a document from an office on the other side of town.

Chitradurga , Apr.16: Six passengers were burnt to death on Wednesday after a tourist bus they were travelling in caught fire in Chitradurga district of Karnataka.

Children walk past an Indian voter awareness mural in Mumbai on April 16, 2014. The sixth phase of India's national elections are scheduled for April 17, when residents of several Indian states will go to the polls.

It just happened again. Another prominent public figure, the former head of government of India's most populous state, downplayed the problem of rape.

The engine and nine of the train's 13 coaches jumped the track near the Jagiroad station, about 140 kilometers east of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, state-owned Indian Railways said in a statement.

Sonia Gandhi, leader of the governing Congress Party, holds her party's manifesto for the 2014 general elections.

Ghaziabad, April 15 : Actress-producer Shilpa Shetty along with business partner and cosmetologist Kiran Bawa has launched IOSIS Wellness here.