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Seven coaches of one of India's most prestigious passenger trains derailed Tuesday after Maoists rebels bombed the railway line, police said.

A stampede broke out at a Hindu temple in northern India on Thursday as thousands of people jostled one another to get free clothes and food, leaving at least 63 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said.

An Indian navy plane performing aerobatics at an air show crashed into a building in southern India, killing the pilot and injuring four people on the ground, police said.

The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile's dining habits and evolution, scientists said Tuesday....

A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft detects large deposits of water ice near the Moon's north pole.

Police say a bus crowded with people returning home from a wedding party fell into a river in northern India, killing at least 22.

A top official says the blast on a bakery near a meditation center in western India was apparently caused by a bomb....

A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least 17 soldiers and critically wounding 17 others.

Pakistan has not responded yet to an invitation by India for the first high-level talks since the Mumbai attack.

A businessman from Chicago pleads not guilty to charges relating to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.