India's Election Commission has given eunuchs an independent identity by letting them choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms.

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Hundreds of poor Hindu villagers in eastern India have refused to hand over a rare turtle to authorities, saying it is an incarnation of God, officials said on Tuesday.

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A nanny in India's IT hub of Bangalore was fired after she regularly drugged a seven-month-old baby in her care and rented him out for $2 a day to be used by street beggars, a newspaper reported.

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A luckless Indian romeo is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.

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Floods in Andhra Pradesh have left its wrath on the traditional handloom weaving industry Rajouli village in Mehboobnagar. The place is specifically recognized for weaving beautiful Gadwal saris.

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A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later.

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India plans to bring back the cheetah, nearly half a century after it became extinct in the country. The BBC's Soutik Biswas considers whether it is a good idea.

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At least five girls have been killed in a stampede at a state-run school in a crowded area of the Indian capital, Delhi, police and doctors say.

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A female student and three others were killed by police in a "staged" encounter in the Indian state of Gujarat, a judicial probe has found.

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A United Arab Emirates transport plane has been detained at an Indian airport after customs officials found arms and explosives on board.

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An outbreak of diarrhoea in the eastern Indian state of Orissa has claimed 26 lives, a state minister has said.

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India's government is set to accept a landmark court ruling that decriminalises gay sex between consenting adults, a report said Wednesday.

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Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations

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INDIAN villagers have gone on the rampage after police tried to enforce a ban on an annual stone-pelting ritual that often leaves people dead or injured.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called on the country's judiciary to address the massive backlog of pending legal cases, some of which stretch back to 1950.

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A retired schoolteacher from France has been trampled to death by wild elephants in southern India, forest officials say.

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Walk around Kodinji village in rural India and you'd be forgiven for thinking you have double vision as this community is known as "twin village."

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A Sydney flying school that was accused of using unqualified trainers to teach Indian students how to fly, has been deregistered by the New South Wales Government.

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An New Delhi court issued a warrant today for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people in Bhopal 25 years ago.

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On a farm in India, Mani the monkey uses her own mysterious methods to tend dozens of goats without any supervision or training, according to the Associated Press.

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Another storm of controversy has broken out in India over revelations that Indian students are being ripped off by unscrupulous operators in Australia.

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Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in the lush Western Ghats mountain range in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plough parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.

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India's parliament has been in uproar after it emerged that former president APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked before boarding a flight to the US.

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Police in Kashmir have arrested four fellow officers for allegedly destroying evidence in the rape and murder of two women that sparked huge anti-India protests.

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