The recent train collision in India, involving three trains, has resulted in a devastating loss of lives and injuries. With at least 288 confirmed dead and around 900 hospitalized, it stands as one of the deadliest rail accidents in the country’s history. The collision occurred when two passenger trains derailed and crashed into a stationary freight train on an adjacent track, near Kolkata.... 

A new study carried out by the researchers in England has released the name of 20 cities which are at the highest risk of damaging floods. Scientists at the University of Southampton listed the cities that face the worst damage from floods and giant storms. The report illustrates that nearly all of them are in Asia and North America, five of them are in the United States, according to Live Science. The... 

An Indian woman walks past graffiti against rape written on a wall in New Delhi on April 22, 2013. An American female tourist has been gang-raped by a group of truckers in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, police say. The 30-year-old woman was picked up by three men in a truck late on Monday while hitchhiking to her hotel in Manali town, a tourist resort in the foothills of the Himalayas. The... 

A Kolkata slum dweller talks on a mobile in India, where the phones have become more affordable. Council of elders feared women would use phones to arrange forbidden marriages. An Indian village has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death, a local official said today. The Lank village council decided unmarried boys...