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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.

A CII CEO's delegation led by Ajay Shriram, President CII & Chairman and Senior Managing Director, DCM Shriram Ltd is in the US from July 23-25, 2014, as part of CII's ongoing commitment to bolster the US-India economic partnership.

Police in India have arrested the chairman of a school where a six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by staff.

The much awaited Honda Mobilio, is all set to launch for Indian buyers at a grand event organized in New Delhi.

The Devi Jagadambi Temple in Khajuraho, a world heritage site, is pictured. A sculpture that fits in with the other sculptures of Khajuraho, apparently was stolen and has ended up in Canada.

ISLAMABAD: Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Tuesday said that Pakistan and India had to honour bilateral agreements.

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"You campaign in poetry, but govern in prose" goes a well-known saying by Mario Cumo, the New York politician.

We list the reasons why Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Once known by prestigious tags like IT Capital, Knowledge Hub and Garden City, Bengaluru is in serious contention to become the rape capital of India.

An Indian soldier was killed on Tuesday when Pakistani troops fired at Indian positions on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the military said.

A total 60 people have died of encephalitis in North Bengal Medical College and Hospital here and the situation in the seven north Bengal districts was 'alarming', West Bengal Health Services director Biswaranjan Satpathy said on Monday.

In 2005, Pusanidevi Manjhi was branded a witch and tortured for four days by a powerful landowning family in the village Palani, in the Jharkhand state of India.

New Delhi, July 21 : The government Monday rejected calls for a parliament resolution on the Gaza violence and said the need of the hour was to support the Egyptian-backed ceasefire proposal.

A local sexual abuse case took on national political overtones on Monday as students from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party accused a state government run by the country's main opposition of inaction.

Islamabad, July 21 : Pakistan has decided to release 57 fishing boats of 150 Indian fishermen who had been freed in May this year as a goodwill gesture, the foreign ministry said Monday.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, arrested for his alleged involvement in various terror strikes across India, on Monday claimed before a court here that he is being treated "worse than an animal" in Tihar Jail and not provided proper food in the holy month of Ramzan.

Many were marbled mausoleums; some were undistinguished - a place to put a toothbrush for the night; then there were those both unique and unforgettable.

Indian children from a slum eat on the banks of the polluted river Yamuna in New Delhi, India Saturday, Aug. 31, 2002.

Indian democracy is dishonoured from time to time by brutal massacres of the country's historically oppressed communities - mostly Dalits and Muslims.