India

In June, India's PTI News Service reported that a 70-year-old woman in the central east Indian state of Odisha was k!lled by an elephant. The same elephant reportedly returned to her funeral to pull her body from a pyre and trample her…

Forest officials in India are investigating four men who gang-r@ped, k!lled, cooked and ate a monitor lizard in one of India’s most protected forest reserves. It was the only monitor lizard in the park. The incident took place on March 29…

Sindhutai Sapkal was 10 years old when she got married to 30-year-old Shrihari Sapkal alias Harbaji, a cowherd from Navargaon village in Warda District. When she was 20, her husband later abandoned her when she was 9 months pregnant.…

The status of women in India has witnessed great changes over the years. It has changed from ancient status to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers. In modern India, women have held high offices including that of the…