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The man whose legal battle led to the recent discovery of treasure worth up to $20bn (12bn) at an Indian temple dies at the age of 70.

Officials in Mumbai, India, have corrected the death toll from Wednesday's blasts, saying that 18 people were killed.

Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from the mangled wreckage of a passenger train that derailed in northern India, as the death toll climbed to 67.

A train hit a bus at a railway crossing in northern India early Thursday, killing at least 35 people returning from a wedding party, an official said.

Government officials are opening up two more vaults at a Hindu temple in southern India where billions of dollars in gold coins, precious stones and jewels already has been discovered.

Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off neighborhood dogs....

Nearly 10 percent of the world’s adults have diabetes, and the prevalence of the disease is rising rapidly. As in the United States and other wealthy nations, increased obesity and inactivity are the primary cause in such developing countries as India and in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

India's oldest inmate, jailed for a multiple murder when he was 84, is released from prison at the age of 108.

Hundreds of police officers swooped down Sunday on the venue of a hunger strike by a charismatic Indian yoga guru and forcibly removed him and thousands of his supporters. Officers detained Baba Ramdev for security reasons, but later released him, said Rajan Bhagat, a police spokesman in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

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