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Crime
Student mob in India heckles visiting S. Korean women mistaken for Christian missionaries
A group of South Korean women was allegedly harassed by a mob of Indian students and accused of being Christian missionaries. The incident r...
Bryan Ke
Knife-wielding roosters kill 2 men in cockfighting events in India
Two men have reportedly been killed by knife-wielding roosters in separate cockfights in India. To mark the three-day celebration of the Hin...
Michelle De Pacina
Business
Asia’s richest man regrets not completing college: ‘My abilities may have been faster’
Before you read: Indian college dropout becomes world’s third richest man While sitting on Forbes’ list as Asia’s richest man, Indian entrep...
Carl Samson
Art
Man in India spends 6 months, $3,000 to create silicone replica of late wife
Tapas Sandilya, a 65-year-old retired government employee, spent 250,000 rupees (approximately $3,000) on a silicone statue resembling his l...
Ines Shin
Hit-and-run death of woman dragged for nearly an hour on NYE continues to roil India
A 20-year-old woman from Delhi, India, died on New Year’s Eve after getting dragged for almost an hour in a hit-and-run incident that has sh...
India
Heartwarming video of young girl caring for her blind parents goes viral
A video of a young Indian girl in Mumbai assisting her visually impaired parents has gone viral on Instagram. Posted by Mith Indulkar (@mith...
Chandler Treon
Culture
Los Angeles bride surprises family with breathtaking Indian wedding dress in viral video
An American woman who wore a traditional Indian dress for her wedding has gone viral. Hannah Rogers, a 31-year-old immigration attorney from...
South Korean Twitch streamer ‘scared to go live’ after harassers freed on bail
Before you read: S. Korean Twitch streamer calls for action after being harassed while livestreaming in India Livestreamer who filmed Mumba...
Livestreamer who filmed Mumbai harassment calls out negative generalizations about India
A South Korean streamer is recounting her experience after the two men who harassed her on the streets of Khar in Mumbai, India, were arres...
Khier Casino
Asia’s richest man to develop India’s largest slum, the site of hit film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest person, has won the rights to redevelop Mumbai’s Dharavi neighborhood after a 50-billion rupee (approximately ...
Rats blamed for eating through 1.3 million joints’ worth of marijuana in India
Police in India have blamed rats for stealing nearly 200 kilograms (approximately 441 pounds) of marijuana — enough to roll approximately 1...
More than 200 burn ‘witch’ alive in India; 14 arrests made
Rita Devi, 45, was allegedly burned alive in her home in the Indian state of Bihar by more than 200 villagers who believed she was a witch....
Neeraj Chopra says Europeans ask him if Indians refund their parents
Indian Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra recently revealed how he responds when Europeans ask him about a specific facet of his Indian upb...
Ryan General
Teen kills herself after video of her stealing chocolate goes viral
An Indian teen allegedly died by suicide after a video of her stealing chocolate at a shopping mall went viral locally. According to her f...
9 suspects arrested for Indian bridge collapse that killed 134 people
Indian police have arrested nine people in connection with a catastrophic bridge collapse that killed 134 people on Sunday, including staff...
Group of men in India filmed recording 12-year-old assault victim while ignoring her cries for help
In a viral video, a group of Indian men can be seen surrounding an assaulted 12-year-old girl and filming her with their mobile phones in U...
Advocates laud India’s Supreme Court decision to uphold a single woman’s right to late term abortion
Advocates have hailed India’s Supreme Court Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s decision to uphold a woman’s right to an abortion up to 24 weeks int...
Indian student allegedly beaten to death by upper caste teacher over misspelled word
A 15-year-old Dalit student was allegedly brutally beaten to death by an upper caste teacher after the boy made a spelling mistake on a tes...
China
Asia’s richest man: China will be ‘increasingly isolated’ from world; India will be poverty-free by 2050
Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest person and the world’s second-richest billionaire, believes that China, which he said was the “foremost champi...
Canada
New Delhi warns Indians in Canada to ‘remain vigilant’ amid increase in hate crimes, sectarian violence
New Delhi recently issued an advisory to Indian nationals in Canada, urging them to “remain vigilant” in the wake of the country’s sudden s...
William Yuk
Viral video of 15-year-old girl walking home naked after alleged sexual assault in India sparks outrage
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by five men who took her to a forest in Moradabad, India, on Sept. 1. The girl w...
Viral video of pet dog biting a boy in India as its owner does nothing sparks outrage
A video of a pet dog biting a young boy as its owner appears to do nothing in a residential building’s elevator in India has gone viral and...
Indian man invents shoes that shoot blank rounds for women’s safety kit
An Indian man has created an innovative safety kit to help women feel safer while walking around the streets in India. Shyam Chaurasia fro...
Campaign lets Indian men experience pain of menstrual cramps for the first time
Congress party lawmaker Hibi Eden and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) recently launched the “Cup of Life” campaign, which lets Indian ...
India’s Supreme Court widens definition of ‘family’ to include unmarried and queer couples
India's Supreme Court has ruled that familial relationships may take the form of domestic, unmarried partnerships or queer relationshi...
Indian teen dies days after being set on fire by man she rejected
Ankita Kumari, a 19-year-old high school student, was set ablaze on Aug. 23 in Jharkhand, India, by Shahrukh Hussain, who drenched her in g...
Indian women protest release of Hindu men who sexually assaulted pregnant Muslim woman
Dozens of women protested in New Delhi, India, on Thursday after a court ordered the release of 11 Hindu men who gang-raped a pregnant Musl...
Indian mother chops off boyfriend’s penis after catching him trying to sexually assault her daughter
A 36-year-old mother from Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district in India allegedly chopped off her boyfriend’s penis after she caught hi...
India frees 11 Hindu men who sexually assaulted pregnant Muslim woman, killed 7 of her family members in 2002
The 11 Hindu men who gang-raped a pregnant Muslim woman in 2002 and killed seven of her family members were freed on remission on Monday fr...
Teacher in India apologizes after video of him threatening to beat student over her BTS fandom goes viral
A video of a teacher in India has gone viral for showing his aggressive verbal tirade toward a BTS fan. Siddhartha Mishra, a teacher from...
Daniel Anderson
Indian man wins 22-year legal battle over 25-cent overcharge
Indian lawyer Tungnath Chaturvedi recently won a 22-year court battle involving railway tickets he was overcharged by a quarter for. Chatu...
CCTV captures man making sure to pray to goddess before stealing temple’s donation box in India
A shirtless man in India was captured on surveillance camera praying to a Hindu goddess before stealing the temple’s donation box in Jabalp...
Asia
India confirms Asia’s first recorded monkeypox death
A 22-year-old man from Kerala, India, has reportedly died of monkeypox, making this the first fatality of the current outbreak in the count...
Environmental
Wild cheetahs to be reintroduced to India 70 years after their extinction in the country
Cheetahs were nearly driven to extinction in India when a maharaja — or Hindu prince — hunted down the last one in the country in 1952, nea...
Jane Nam
Indian woman proudly shows off her mustache to promote body positivity and confidence
A woman in India who sports a mustache says she is unfazed by the negativity and haters as she has “never felt that I’m not beautiful.” Th...
Rebecca Moon
Man in India decapitates wife over infidelity suspicions, then walks miles with her severed head
Nakaphodi Majhi, 55, allegedly decapitated his wife and walked over seven miles to the police station with her severed head in Odisha, Indi...