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'One of World's Oldest Bans' on Gay Sex Is No More

Colonial-era law banning homosexuality has been overturned by India's Supreme Court

(Newser) - Calling sexual orientation "one of the many natural phenomena," the chief justice of India's Supreme Court made a big announcement Thursday about one of the nation's colonial-era laws. The Guardian reports India's highest court has struck down a 160-year-old law banning consensual gay sex, with...

Court Dismisses Case Against Actress Whose Wink Went Viral

India's Supreme Court dismisses case against Priya Prakash Varrier

(Newser) - An Indian actress winked as part of a movie scene—and found herself accused of blasphemy. But India's Supreme Court has now dismissed the case against Priya Prakash Varrier, the BBC reports. Varrier, 18, was dubbed India's "national crush" after a song from her upcoming film , Oru ...

Deadly Floods Trap Thousands
Deadly Floods Trap Thousands
Aug 18, 2018 11:00 AM CDT

Deadly Floods Trap Thousands

Over 190 people have died in the Indian state of Kerala

(Newser) - Thousands of stranded people were waiting for rescue Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon floods battered the south Indian state of Kerala, where more than 190 have died in a little over a week and much of the state is partially submerged, the AP reports. Heavy...

10 Found Hanging in Family's Home Had Cotton in Ears

Writings found suggest 'definite spiritual and mystical practices,' say Delhi police

(Newser) - Police say it's "still too early" to know how 10 family members ended up dead and hanging from the ceiling in Delhi, India, but some early details from their investigation into the deaths are dribbling out. The bodies of the 10, as well as that of an elderly...

Mysterious, Grisly Find in Family's Home: 11 Bodies, 10 Hanging

Police in New Delhi 'can't rule out anything'

(Newser) - Police in India's capital found 11 bodies in a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, reports the AP , including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging. The victims were all from the same family and most lived in the home where they were found in the northern part of New...

US One of 10 Most Dangerous Countries for Women

India is No. 1

(Newser) - A new Thompson Reuters Foundation survey names the 10 countries deemed to be the least safe for women, and the Washington Post focuses on the nation that claims the title of most dangerous. "India has shown utter disregard and disrespect for women … rape, marital rapes, sexual assault and...

Female Street Performers Gang-Raped at Gunpoint

Police in India are still investigating

(Newser) - Five female activists were performing a street play in remote India this week when men kidnapped them at gunpoint and gang-raped them in a forest, CBS News reports. Police say the activists were working with an NGO backed by local Christian missionaries—and were accompanied by two nuns and four...

Forest Ranger Foolishly Decides to Pose With Python

India ranger Sanjoy Dutta nearly got strangled

(Newser) - India has racked up the most "deaths by selfie," researchers say, and one forest ranger almost joined that statistic. Gulf News and the Tribune report on a recent close call in the West Bengal city of Jalpaiguri, where ranger Sanjoy Dutta showed off to a crowd the 18-foot...

Crisis in India: Father, Son Lost Their Lives Over Water

A new report suggests the worst is yet to come

(Newser) - An 18-year-old accused of cutting in line got into a scuffle over it. He ended up dead, as did his 60-year-old father, who suffered a heart attack after trying to calm the situation. The New York Times shares the tragedy as an example of India's rising tensions over a...

US Pacific Command Has a New Name
US Pacific Command
Has a New Name
May 31, 2018 3:33 AM CDT

US Pacific Command Has a New Name

Name change is 'symbolic nod' to ally

(Newser) - The US military's largest unified combatant command has a new name that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says honors the "increasing connectivity of the Indian and Pacific Oceans." Mattis announced Wednesday that US Pacific Command will now be known as US Indo-Pacific Command, CNN reports. "It is...

Deadly Virus in India Could Cause Global Epidemic

The outbreak started with a fruit bat

(Newser) - The Nipah virus has now killed at least a dozen people in southern India and health workers fear it could become a global epidemic if it isn't tightly monitored. More than 40 other people have been infected with the virus, which has a mortality rate of around 75%, Fox...

Nurse in Outbreak of Rare Virus Pens Letter With Dying Request

South Indian state of Kerala dealing with outbreak of Nipah virus

(Newser) - The nurse, with two young children at home and a husband working overseas, scrawled the words in blue pen as she lay dying in an Indian hospital isolation ward, sick with a rare and deadly virus. "I think I am almost on my way. I may not be able...

Former UN Diplomat Charged With Instigating Wife's Suicide

Sunanda Pushkar died in 2014 after bizarre Twitter feud

(Newser) - Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a five-star Delhi hotel in 2014 after a bizarre Twitter feud involving a Pakistani journalist who, the Indian woman claimed on the social media site, was having an affair with Pushkar's husband. It was first treated as suicide, but now her husband has...

In India, Yet Another Teen Is Raped Then Burned Alive

Said to be third such incident in last week

(Newser) - A horrifying incident is becoming somewhat of a trend in India, where a third teenager has reportedly been raped and then burned alive, with all the incidents happening in the span of one week. The BBC reports the 16-year-old was allegedly killed after informing her attacker, a man police have...

Gang Rape, a 100 Sit-up Punishment—Then Murder

Dhanu Singh Bhuiyan accused of setting victim on fire

(Newser) - Indian police arrested 15 people Saturday in the horrific case of a teenage girl who was allegedly gang-raped and set on fire, the New York Times reports. Authorities say several men attacked the girl Thursday, but things only got worse the next day when village leaders gathered to punish alleged...

Woman on 'Healing' Vacation Is Found Raped and Headless

Liga Skromane was visiting India to combat depression

(Newser) - A woman visiting India to undergo treatment for depression was apparently lured away by two men who drugged, raped, and murdered her—and then tried to make her death look like suicide, CBS News reports. Indian police have made two arrests in the death of Liga Skromane, 32, who went...

Fed-Up Judge Wants Taj Mahal Cleaned—Quickly

'You all appear to be helpless,' he tells government officials

(Newser) - The Taj Mahal, that shining white monument to love, is turning a little ... green. And yellow. And black. And India's Supreme Court is not pleased. "You all appear to be helpless," a Supreme Court judge told government officials earlier this week, after an environmental lawyer argued that...

US Spends More on War Than Next 7 Nations Combined

China is a distant 2nd

(Newser) - A "near-constant state of war" is just one of the reasons the US spends more than any other country in the world on its military—by a long shot. If the next seven major military spenders combined their funds, they still wouldn't measure up, according to a list...

India Seeks Help as Taj Mahal Changes Color

'Privatization' of monument alarms critics

(Newser) - India's most famous monument is slowly turning from white to yellow, brown, and green—and the country's Supreme Court is accusing the government of not caring. At a hearing Tuesday, India's top court ordered the government to seek advice from overseas and spend whatever it takes to...

Billionaire Guru Gets Life in Prison for Teen's Rape

Asaram Bapu expected to appeal amid fears of violence

(Newser) - An Indian city is bracing for violence after a spiritual guru with millions of followers was sentenced to life in prison for rape on Wednesday. Asaram Bapu, who claims to teach meditation and yoga at 400 ashrams in 19 countries, was sentenced in Jodhpur, Rajasthan state, for the 2013 rape...

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