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At least 18 people have died in a scorching heat wave that has swept through more than a dozen Indian states, the weather department ...

The trial of the only surviving suspected gunman in the bloody Mumbai siege began Friday with the prosecutor calling the attacks "a criminal conspiracy hatched in Pakistan to attack India."

Although these cities eventually fell to war or natural disaster, their legacies live on in majestic temples preserved as World Heritage Sites or transformed into museums and galleries, sophisticated art pieces and modern day reliance on the knowledge and age-old techniques developed by the citizens of ancient cities.

Take a tumble through 72 miles of rarely traveled water in northeastern India.

China has bolstered its security forces along its border with India and Nepal, on the fiftieth anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet.