India has the highest number in the world of babies who die within a day of their birth -- 309,000, or 29 percent of the world's total -- reports the charity Save the Children, which attributes the appalling death toll to poor nutrition and low bi...

A 4-year-old girl who was fighting for her life since she was raped over a week ago by two men in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has died after suffering a cardiac arrest. She was severely injured in the attack after one man lured her ...

The owner of the Bangladesh garment factory building which collapsed, killing at least 377 people, has been paraded before the media after being captured while trying to flee to India. Rescue efforts continued after a fire that erupted at the site...

Protesters took to the streets of New Delhi on Saturday, demanding justice for the brutal rape of a 5-year-old girl. Angry crowds demonstrated outside police headquarters, clashing with police in a show of frustration with a legal system many accu...

As India struggles to combat crimes against women, three engineering students have come up with a shocking "solution": GPS-equipped anti-rape underwear that delivers a debilitating electric shock to attackers and alerts police. The inventors say a...

While the world's attention is on the nuclear standoff in between North and South Korea, Pakistan test firea its new nuclear-capable Hatf IV Shaheen-1 ballistic missile which could strike the heart of India. Report by Matt Blake. 

As cases of sexual assaults against women continue to rise in India, the number of foreign tourists has significantly declined over the past few months. A new study claims tourism in India has plunged by 25 percent and the number of female tourist...

Anger is simmering against the real estate sector that has let illegal construction flourish in the suburbs of Mumbai, India. The collapse of an illegally-constructed four-story building has resulted in at least 72 dead. Many residents claim they ...

At least 35 people, including 11 children, are dead and many more are still missing after a building under construction collapsed in a Mumbai suburb. Police say workers, many of whom are among the dead, had been illegally adding four floors to the...

Sexual violence in India has resurfaced in the international spotlight as a police investigation has been launched into the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in India. Seven men were said to have been involved in the attack which took place after the S...