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More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according ...

The room is large and airy, the stone floors clean and cool - a welcome respite from the afternoon sun. Until your eyes take in the horror that it holds. Ten severely malnourished children - nine of them girls....

U.S. prosecutors charged four Pakistani men Monday in connection with the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed 166 people, including six Americans, although none of the defendants is in U.S. custody.

Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur's montage condensing the best moments in the history of Bollywood into 81 fast-moving minutes will be screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival....

A gene that can turn many types of bacteria into deadly superbugs was found in about a quarter of water samples taken from drinking supplies and puddles on the streets of New Delhi, according to a new study....

India overtakes China to become the world's largest importer of arms, a Sweden-based think tank says.

Ignighter.com, a site for organizing group dates, wasn’t bringing in much traffic in the U.S. But the founders noticed that it was adding thousands of users a day in India.

When the Tata Nano - known as the world's cheapest car - zipped out of factories in 2009, it was praised as an example of Indian innovation in cost-cutting. It quickly became a cult hit, with its own Facebook travelogue journal and fast-selling counterculture T-shirts.

India increased security in major cities across the country Tuesday after receiving information that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year's weekend....

Indian police issued an alert Thursday in Mumbai, saying four members of a militant group had entered the Indian city and were suspected of plotting violence on the Christmas and New Year's holidays.