Forty villagers riding on a truck were swept away by a flooded river and feared dead Sunday in southern India, where monsoon rains have claimed at least 59 lives in the past three days, officials said.

Monsoon rains crumpled homes and triggered flash floods in southern India, killing 18 people, an official said Saturday.

Police say at least 20 people have died after a train caught fire in southern India.

A fire has broken out at one of India’s largest chili markets, burning hundreds of thousands of pounds of chili peppers.Residents and officials say the burning chili smoke is stinging the eyes and throats of people in Guntur in the southern state of...

Worshippers at a Hindu temple in southern India stampeded Thursday as they tried to draw close to a goddess’ statue, trampling at least five people to death and injuring 15 others, a state official said.Nearly 100,000 devotees had gathered at the...

Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that those who touched his leg would be cured of...

India on Monday inaugurated a $32 million tsunami early warning center, which can alert people living along the coast within 13 minutes of getting data from seismic stations.”This is a technological achievement of enormous magnitude,” India’s Science...

Torrential rains and thunderstorms have killed at least 63 people in southern India, and flooded dozens of villages, officials said Thursday.Worst hit was the state of Andhra Pradesh where 48 people died in the last four days, said Dharmana Prasad Rao, a...