India: Rally Against Intolerance Ends In Clashes Outside Parliament

Protesters from India’s opposition Congress Party clashed with police near parliament on Monday as a rally against perceived intolerance ended in ugly scenes.There have been a number of protests including filmmakers, historians and scientists claiming religious and other bigotry is growing under Narendra Modi and his ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

More Than 20 Dead In India Double Train Derailment

More than 20 people died and dozens injured as two express trains  derailed into a river in central India. Officials say flood waters weakened the tracks.Divers pulled out trapped passengers and some of them were rushed to hospital in critical conditions.

Guests Kill Groom’s Father Because He Refused To Allow Band To Play Bollywood Songs

Police arrested three people after a deadly shooting at wedding at which the father of the groom ordered the band to stop playing Bollywood music.Police in Sakoti. India said that the incident unfolded on Friday night, when a group of drunk guests fatally shot the groom's father after he ordered the band to stop playing Bollywood songs.

India executes plotter of 1993 Mumbai attacks

Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing India's deadliest terrorist attack has been executed.It came after the Supreme Court threw out a final appeal for clemency . There was tight security at the prison in the state of Maharashtra where the sentence was carried out.

Witchcraft killings: Nine arrested for hacking to death of 6 family members

Nine people in eastern India have been arrested for hacking to death six members of a family who they accused of practising witchcraft and making village children sick, a senior police official in Odisha, India, said on Wednesday.

The couple and their six children were reportedly sleeping  in their mud home in a village in Odisha's Keonjhar district when a mob armed with axes broke in and attacked them early on Monday.

Poor And Homeless Met Police Violence When They fight for their rights in India's Mumbai

Residents of a settlement called Mandala on the outskirts of India’s financial capital, Mumbai were rendered homeless when police evicted them on June 30th, and when the residents of this slum protested calling for the right to affordable housing, they were met with violent police action.

The authorities then proceeded to break down their makeshift structures in Mankhurd on the premise that they needed to protect the mangroves that border the settlement. However, a day after the eviction it was reported that the land was being handed over to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority to build a Metro Rail yard.

Man on the run after arranging 6 year old girl marriage to a 35 year old man

Police in Rajasthan, India, are hunting for a man in connection with arranging child marriages  after his suspected links with the wedding of a 35-year-old man to a six-year-old child.
Marriage broker Jamuni Bai, 51, is known for arranging marriages with child brides for a fee of around $550.

India: Rapist politician and police officers charged with murder for burning a jounalist alive

An Indian journalist, Jagendra Singh who accused a high ranking Minister of corruption and rape, has been burnt alive by five police officers who were paid to carry out the hatchet job. 

According to  reports, the police have charged Minister Ram Murti Verma and the police officers with the murder of the journalist who was found burned to death just days after accusing the politician of rape on Facebook.

India bans Maggi noodles

The Indian food safety regulator said that tests have found Nestle India's Maggi instant noodle products are "unsafe and hazardous".

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India accused Nestle of failing to comply with food safety laws.
Nestle withdrew the Maggi brand from stores, after regulators found higher-than-allowed levels of lead in some packets.
But the company insists the noodles are safe.
Maggi is the market leader in India, where a packet costs 12 rupees.

India heatwave kill more than 1,000

 The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has passed 1,000, with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas.

Most deaths have taken place in the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where at least 1,118 people have died since last week.

Reports say at least 24 people have died from the heat in West Bengal and Orissa.

Facebookers angered over Zuckerberg's incorrect India map posted on his page

According to Forbes, Indian netizens are angry with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he posted a map of India sans Jammu & Kashmir.

Mr. Zuckerberg posted the image on his Facebook page following the launch earlier this week in Malawi of the Facebook-led Internet.org.

#2ndNepalquake: Death toll rises to 32, 1.006 injured, 3 dead in India

People are begining to be scared in Kathmandu after another powerfull earthquake in less than three weeks, Casualty statistics have started to arrive from the scene of the second quake and so far, no fewer than 32 people have been reported dead while 1,006 are said to be injured.

Also in neighbouring Indian state, Bihar, 3 people died after a wall collapsed from the effect of the earthquake.

India:18-yr-old girl gang raped by 3 men who recorded the act on video

The rape culture in India is growing in leaps and bounds and is causing a lot of concern for the government and human rights agencies.

A new incident has come to light after an 18-year-old girl was gang raped by three men who had the audacity to record the sordid act on video.

India: Gay husband's mental torture drives wife to suicide

A Delhi court on Monday remanded to 14-day judicial custody the dermatologist husband of a 31-year-old woman doctor who allegedly committed suicide due to "immense" mental torture supposedly caused by her husband's  sexual orientation.

India: Dad, brother and uncle arrested after repeated teen’s rape

The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested for allegedly raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police  in Kolkata said on Saturday.

India: OMG!!! Woman urinates in in-law’s tea as revenge for interfering in her marriage

A mother in-law in India  was horrified to learn that her daughter in-law contaminated her tea with urine.

Rekha Nagvanshi, 30,  was caught red-handed squatting over the kettle by her mother in-law, who walked into the kitchen and caught her doing it.

India: Thousands protest rape of elderly nun

Ten men have been detained for questioning in the search for six robbers who allegedly sexually assaulted a nun and fled with cash after they broke into a convent in the town of Ranaghat, eastern state of West Bengal, India on Saturday.

India: Groom dumped on wedding day for failing maths test

The police in Uttar Pradesh, says an Indian bride walked out of her wedding after her groom to be failed to solve a simple mathematical problem.The bride called off the marriage when she asked the groom a simple addition of 15 + 6, which he failed by giving his answer as 17.

Mahatma Gandhi statue unveiled in London

 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled the  statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday. He was accompanied on a specially erected stage, surrounded by British and Indian flags  by British Prime Minister David Cameron, Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi, British Culture Minister Sajid Javid, Amitabh Bachchan, and Lord and Lady Desai, founding trustees of the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust.

The nine foot bronze statue of Gandhi was created by Phillip Jackson, a renowned British sculptor, and will stand in the company of Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln, among others.

India:Actor Aamir Khan apologises if his last film ‘PK’ has hurt sentiments

Actor Aamir Khan 

Superstar actor Aamir Khan has apologised to those who may have been offended by his last film PK saying there was no intention by the makers to hurt religious sentiments of anyone.

The film, which received rave reviews and set the box office on fire, earned the ire of several groups, who claimed PK hurt the sentiments of the people. The film took a dig at godmen and religious practices.