US Attorney Preet Bharara took to the internet today to clarify a few things about Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who got arrested and strip searched last week for lying about paying her nanny only $3.31 an hour.

An Indian diplomat who championed women's rights is being criminally charged in New York for paying her female nanny $3.31 an hour and lying about it on the woman's visa application.

Police in India just filed rape and assault charges against the editor of a liberal magazine, Tehelka — a publication known for its anti-corruption, pro-transparency angle, that recently called for Indians to address the country's problems with sexual violence.

At least 115 people were killed in India during a stampede on Sunday. The victims, mostly women and children, died after a rumor spread that the bridge they were crossing was about to collapse, triggering a panic.

A woman who attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a speeding metro train escaped without a scratch after the train somehow passed harmlessly over her head.

A 3-month-old Indian baby has burst into flames at least four times without any obvious external cause, leading doctors to investigate the possibility that the infant suffers from spontaneous human combustion.

A veteran TV reporter has been fired from his job after he filed a report from the scene of a major flood while sitting on the shoulders of a victim in an apparent bid to avoid getting his clothes wet.

The Internet is going nuts today for some lost-and-found footage from a very-little-known South Indian softcore porn film.

A daredevil best known for setting the world record for longest distance traveled on a zip wire by hair died yesterday while attempting to recreate the stunt over the River Teesta in the east Indian state of West Bengal.

An illegally-constructed, half-completed building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane collapsed on Thursday evening, killing at least 45 people, including several children. Over 50 people were injured, and more than 20 are still missing; rescue workers, wielding construction equipment and driving bulldozers, are still at the scene, attempting to dig out possible survivors. Police, meanwhile, were trying to track down Jamil Qureshi and Salim Shaikh, the two builders who had illegally constructed the seven-story building and used substandard materials to do so. Of the dead, seven were construction workers from West Bengal, staying in the building as they added an eighth story—making it fully twice as high as zoning regulations are said to have allowed. "The entire incident reeks of corruption at many levels and in many departments," Anant Rangaswami writes at First Post. "From the local civil authorities who allowed the building to come up, to the electricity department which made connections available, to the water department which provided connections, to the local police station which failed to see something wrong, to the local politicians who seem not even to have noticed the illegal building coming up, to buyers of space in the building, which, if unauthorized, would not have registered the purchases." Prithviraj Chavan, the chief minister of the state of Maharashtra, visited the site of the accident on Friday. [NDTV | Guardian | First Post]

A British tourist in India was badly injured this morning after she reportedly jumped out of the window of her hotel room to escape the aggressive sexual advances of the hotel's owner.

Just one month after a similar attack ended in tragedy, police in India arrested six men after they allegedly gang-raped a woman aboard a bus in India. The attack occurred Friday night as the 29-year-old victim was traveling to her home village in the Gurdaspur district in Punjab.

A Indian businessman has decided to invest his sizable fortune in something truly worthwhile: Bling.

In mid-November in India, an unnamed 17-year-old girl was gang-raped in the Patiala region in the Punjab. She had reportedly spent much of December begging and badgering the police to take the case seriously and investigate and eventually arrest her attackers. Sadly, those things never happened — or they were happening very, very slowly as the police worked to convince her to give up. Well, on Wednesday night she did. She swallowed poison, committing suicide.

Samir Jain, India's version of Rupert Murdoch, is just as mercurial, powerful, and feared as Murdoch himself.

Disillusioned young Westerners go to India, meet holy men, go slightly insane. There's a name for that.

Though this EXTREMELY LOUD video is entitled 'how they watch movies in India,' sweeping generalizations are rarely accurate.

McDonald's, the world-wide leader in burger-based foods, announced today plans to open its first all-vegetarian restaurant in the northern Indian city of Amritsar.

For nearly a month now, the residents of Sadiya, a small Indian town in the North-eastern state of Assam, have been living in fear of an unknown species of spider that has descended on the area without notice.

India has taken inspiration from Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game," in an effort to aid in population control.