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The rape of a 6-year-old girl at a school in Bangalore has refocused attention on sexual abuse of children in India, Human Rights Watch said today.

Two items that are essential to most Indian households are a bucket and a pitcher.

The Lifetime TV network says it dropped a reality show about a Texas mortuary after eight decaying bodies were found at the facility and the co-owners were charged with corpse abuse.

London-based satellite broadcaster BSkyB has announced agreements to purchase Sky Italia and 57 percent of Sky Deutschland from 21st Century Fox.

NEW DELHI: India, on Friday, summoned Pakistan's deputy high commissioner and lodged a strong protest against the adjournment of the ongoing Mumbai terror attack case trial in Pakistan.

An Indian pharmacist swiftly pulls white boxes of powerful antibiotics from neatly stacked shelves behind him, and hands them over the counter without asking for a doctor's prescription.

WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS: The young girl's life was brutally cut short Wednesday after she was allegedly gang-raped and hung from a tree in West Bengal.

This post is one of a three-part Asia Unbound series following a recent CFR trip to India and China.

During the surgery 232 teeth had been removed from the boy's mouth. 17-year-old Indian teen Ashik Gavai has his teeth out during the surgery at a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 22, 2014.

Vladimir Putin has no soul, US Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker.

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A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll could rise further, officials said.

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A road accident in which a private passenger bus and a lorry collided on the National Highway 34 in the Malda district, about 340 kms north of Kolkata on March 27, 2014 At least 13 children have been killed and dozens injured after a school bus collided with a train in the southern India.

A passenger train has crashed into a school bus in southern India, killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll could rise further, officials say.

The two belonged to Kerala and arrangements were being made to bring back their bodies, the sources said.

If things go as planned, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Kathmandu on a two-day official visit to Nepal on August 3, a highly-placed source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Foreign secretary Sujatha Singh will travel to Islamabad for a meeting with her counterpart Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry on August 25 in a likely attempt to revive the dialogue process.

Cuisine: On a street of many Indian restaurants in an area known as Little India, this is one of the best, with large portions of curries, tandooris and more served in an upscale room.

Three weeks after the rape of a 6-year-old student in southern India, allegedly by her skating instructor, police arrested the chairman of her school Wednesday amid growing protests over lax security for children in schools.

Recent outbreaks of encephalitis in India have killed around 550 people this year and the toll is likely to rise with health experts saying 70 million children nationwide are at risk.