After two days of caste-related riots that left eight people dead in the Indian state of Gujarat, calm is slowly returning. However, a cur...

Sign the petition asking for Unilever to clean up the mercury poisoning in Kodaikanal: http://www.jhatkaa.org/unilever/. Written by Chenna...

North Sentinel Island , located in the Bay of Bengal, between Myanmar and Indonesia, is home to an isolated tribe that has never been coloni...

India has asked YouTube to remove all links to a controversial documentary about the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi after banning...

"Indian authorities ordered television stations Tuesday not to broadcast a documentary about a gang rape on a New Delhi bus in which o...

Relatives of the 12 women who died after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign in India went horribly wrong have told local media they wer...

Lawlessness continues to haunt Uttar Pradesh . Who you are seeing on your screen is not a thief or a juvenile criminal but a rape victim, a...

In 1994, three years before her death, journalist Christopher Hitchens made this documentary asking if Mother Teresa 's reputation wa...

Activist Irom Sharmila , a woman from India’s north-east who has been force-fed for the past 12 years, was flown to Delhi so that a judge co...

A study conducted by Canadian researchers has called Mother Teresa "anything but a saint", a creation of an orchestrated and effe...

Thousands of Indian women are having their wombs removed in operations that campaigners say are unnecessary and only performed to make money...

Indian women have made it to the tops of their professions in India. There’s been a female Indian president, women run multi-billion-dollar ...

Ravi Shankar 1920 – 2012

A village in Northern Indian has banned women from using mobile phones amid fears they encourage affairs and cause women to elope, local med...

When water started trickling down a statue of Jesus Christ at a Catholic church in Mumbai earlier this year, locals were quick to declare a ...

Workers making clothes that end up in the stores of the biggest names on the British high street have testified to a shocking regime of abus...

Irish health chiefs have launched investigations following the death of a woman in a Galway hospital after she was refused an abortion. Sav...

In an ashram perched high on a hill above the noisy city of Guwahati in north-east India is a small exhibit commemorating the life of Indi...

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of being behind twin attacks on Israeli targets in India and Georgia on Monda...

An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping...