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Former UN climate panel chief Rajendra Pachauri will stand trial in a sexual assault and harassment case three years after an employee accused him of inappropriate conduct, a lawyer said Friday.
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Fifty people died when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern India on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents on the country's notorious roads in recent years.
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Forty-three people died in southern India on Tuesday when a bus taking pilgrims from a temple plunged into a valley, an official said, in the latest horrific crash on the country's roads.
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The way some irrigated rice paddies are managed worldwide, with cycles of flooding followed by dry periods, may lead to twice the planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution as previously thought, researchers said Monday.
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One of the last Indian activists facing action under an anti-gay colonial-era law killed off by a landmark Supreme Court ruling expressed hope Friday that he would escape punishment in a new age of liberalisation.
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Indian media on Friday -- including some conservative outlets -- hailed a Supreme Court ruling to decriminalise gay sex whilst highlighting a "deafening" silence from Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.
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It was like a scene from a Bollywood blockbuster as staff at one of New Delhi's most luxurious hotels performed an elaborate dance routine in the lobby to celebrate a historic Supreme Court ruling on gay rights.
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India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ban on gay sex sparking emotional and joyous celebrations among activists after a decades-long campaign against a colonial-era law used to clamp down on homosexual rights.
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US President Donald Trump's top two envoys met with their Indian counterparts in Delhi on Thursday to deepen a fast-growing partnership but also to tackle thorny issues ranging from an ongoing trade spat to India's purchase of Russian military gear.
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India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex at the centre of years of legal battles.
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US President Donald Trump's top two envoys were expected Thursday to press India not to buy Russian military equipment or Iranian oil, while seeking to bolster ties as China grows more assertive in the region.
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India's Supreme Court is likely on Thursday to deliver an eagerly awaited judgement on colonial-era legislation criminalising homosexuality, lawyers said.
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Two of President Donald Trump's top officials are finally heading for talks in India this week, after Washington twice pulled the plug on the summit.
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Guwahati -
Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a small child to India where he has lived as a refugee ever since.
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On August 15, during India's Independence Day celebrations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprising announcement: The country will send humans to space by 2022.
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Indian police have arrested a senior Buddhist monk accused of sexually abusing 15 boys at a meditation centre he ran in a holy city, officials said Saturday.
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Mumbai -
Bargain-basement fares, high oil prices and a tumbling rupee are causing turbulence in India's hyper-competitive aviation market, virtually wiping out airlines' profits and leaving them scrambling to cut costs to survive.
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More than 1,200 people have been killed across South Asia in monsoon storms so far this year, according to figures collected by AFP as India counts the rising toll from floods that have devastated southern Kerala state.
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Once-a-century rains that have pounded the Indian state of Kerala and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with the predictions of climate scientists, who warn that worse is to come if global warming continues unabated.
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Kollam -
They carried their boats onto trucks to get there and braved the filthy, swirling waters before most other rescuers arrived. Now hundreds of fishermen are being hailed as the heroes of India's Kerala floods crisis.
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Kochi -
Cristiano Ronaldo has not donated $11 million to the Kerala flood disaster fund and there are no cracks in a key dam, but India's fake news machine has been working overtime to fuel confusion and fear.
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More than one million people have swarmed relief camps in India's Kerala state to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than 410 people, officials said Tuesday as a huge international aid operation gathered pace.
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The overpowering stench that fills the air in the Kerala town of Aluva is an inescapable reminder that while the filthy floodwaters may subside, the full toll of the devastating monsoon deluge will take time to emerge.
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Floodwaters receded in Kerala on Monday, leaving Indian rescuers the grim task of retrieving bodies as the death toll from the worst monsoon rains in a century rose above 400.
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Receding flood waters left Indian troops and rescuers the grim task Monday of hunting for bodies left by the worst monsoon in a century in Kerala state as the death toll rose above 400.
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Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed at least 370 people and drove more than 700,000 from their homes.
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Rescuers waded into submerged villages in southern India on Sunday in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people.
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The death toll from the worst flooding to hit India's Kerala state in a century has jumped to 357, authorities said Sunday, with losses to infrastructure pegged at some $3 billion.
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A woman refused to leave her flooded house in India's Kerala state without her 25 dogs, a rescuer said Saturday, as the death toll continued to rise.
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Rescuers in helicopters and boats fought through renewed torrential rain Saturday to reach stranded villages in India's Kerala state as the toll from the worst monsoon floods in a century rose above 320 dead.
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Meself, Jaydip is interacting with a handicapped person at a fair in Tripura, India. The person came to fair to get the sanction letter from the local administration of a Government sponsored scheme meant for disabled persons.
Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB), and spread over 20 acres with nine interlinked nine-storey towers each, has been set up at a cost of Rs 11 billion (over USD 200 million). Bharat Diamond Bourse
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Pictures of the inaugural ceremony of the 2nd Global Bird Watchers' Conference 2012 in Gujarat, India.
Baglihar Dam across Chenab river in Doba district of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Gtsenthilnath
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Me is seen with an elderly tribal woman at a village of Tripura, India. Notice her coin-made jewelry.
Bhil girls. India's tribal people are exploited and victimized
An Indian patient at an intensive care unit was brought to a hospital after suffering complications from a sterilization procedure Sanjay Kanojia, Getty Images/AFP
A rural family of Tripura, India. Most of the rural people live in bamboo made huts. However, comparatively better off families, like the family in photo, live in mud wall rooms. The mud wall rooms are remain cool during scorching summer and a pleasant hot place during winter.
A tribal woman - Laxmi Molsom - of Tripura, India. In Tripura, 19 tribes live. Molsum community is one of the most backward ethnic groups living in the State.
Rainbow: Photo is taken from a rooftop of a sub division town of Tripura, India
Construction at the Sardar Sarovar dam. The World Commission on Dams (WCD) principles encompass basic values of human rights and sustainable development that are essential to minimising negative impacts of large dams on people and the environment. Certain WCD principles have also been incorporated into various international and national laws and policies. International Rivers
Ground crumbles underfoot as apocalyptic floods sweep India in 2013. Screen grab
Gay rights activists walk inside the premises of the Supreme Court in New Delhi December 11, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Danish Siddiqui
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