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Army divers joined police and paramilitary forces Sunday searching for victims who fell about 40 feet (12 meters) into a remote Indian river when a loaded foot bridge collapsed.
A leading separatist group in India's remote northeastern on Tuesday announced a unilateral cease-fire, moving closer to a peace dialogue to resolve a three-decade-old insurgency.
Mahendra Nath Das was convicted of a murder so gruesome India's courts gave him a rare death sentence and the president rejected his plea for clemency. Only one thing is keeping him from the gallows: There is no hangman.
India says the body of the chief minister of a northeastern state has been recovered from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed in a densely forested area in the Himalayan foothills.
Officials say a fire raged through a refugee camp in northeastern India, killing 21 people and injuring about 100.
A separatist leader released on bail Saturday said he was committed to peace talks with the Indian government to end his group's 30-year insurgency in the northeastern state of Assam.
In this humid, lush region where an important part of the world's breakfast is born, the evidence of climate change is — literally — a weak tea.
Indian police busted an elephant smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Assam, arresting five people and seizing three wild elephants, two of them calves, authorities said Monday.
India's environment minister has ordered a probe into a recent spate of wild elephant deaths, apparently as a result of accidental poisonings, near a remote northeastern wildlife refuge, officials said Thursday.
Separatist rebels triggered a land mine Friday that killed at least five paramilitary soldiers and wounded 41 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, where a deadly separatist insurgency has long raged.
The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.
Authorities in a Christian-majority state in India's remote northeast have confiscated all copies of a school textbook that carried a picture of Jesus Christ holding a can of beer and a cigarette, an official said Saturday.
Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India's restive northeast on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.
Rescue workers fanned out across eastern Bhutan on Tuesday, one day after an earthquake shook the tiny, isolated Himalayan nation and killed at least 12 people, officials and a state-run daily said.
Suspected militants used automatic weapons and machetes to kill a family of four migrant workers Tuesday in India's insurgency-hit northeast.
Wild elephants demolished two thatched-roof huts, killing five villagers in a pre-dawn attack Friday in India's remote northeast, an official said.
The "ghost chili," the world's spiciest chili, seems to suit her palate.
A wild elephant trampled to death a 60-year-old Dutch tourist who was on a safari at a national park in northeastern India on Tuesday.
Three explosive attacks struck India's restive northeastern state of Assam, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens Monday, a day before an election campaign visit by the prime minister.
An Indian paramilitary soldier shot and killed six of his colleagues with an assault rifle, then fled their military camp in a remote and dangerous outpost in northeastern India, the military said Thursday.
A herd of nearly 150 hungry elephants rampaged through a village in India's remote northeast, trampling to death a young family as they slept in their hut, a resident and a wildlife official said Saturday.
Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast has left at least 49 people dead in four days including 19 killed on Monday, officials said.
Several commanders of a leading separatist group in India's restive northeast announced a cease-fire Wednesday and called for an end to their 30-year rebellion, separatist leaders and government officials said.
Hundreds of children from a village in India's insurgency-wracked northeast have burned their toy guns in a symbolic protest against the violence that surrounds them, activists said Thursday.
Suspected rebels gunned down 11 people in two attacks in remote northeastern India on Thursday, officials said.
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