A mother who lost her daughter in the Air India plane that crashed at Ahmedabad has said she is aware that her daughter will ...

Women in an Indian village were sexually assaulted for years. Now they are fighting back. Women accuse Shahjahan Sheikh, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman, of oppressing people in the village.

When the young woman limped toward shopkeeper Ravindra Prakash, pleading for help on a dark and foggy morning in the northern Indian village, her body was so charred that he thought she was a witch.

This is the story of one woman who, with no formal education or experience, pulled an entire Indian village from poverty by empowering the women around her.

A 20-year-old woman is lying in critical condition in hospital in the Indian state of West Bengal after she was allegedly gang-raped by at least a dozen men on the orders of a “salishi sabha ...

Men’s attitudes about women were changing in one Indian village thanks to a gender sensitivity class. But then a dowry dispute turned deadly. Photos by Poulomi Basu ...

Police have arrested 13 men in India's West Bengal state in connection with the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman. The rape was allegedly ordered by village elders who form a council known locally ...

In the remote village of Mawlynnong in northeast India, the Khasi tribe follows a rare tradition of women running the show. ... Women hold power in this remote Indian village. April 17, 2015.

A new $500 million women’s cricket league is offering the kind of opportunities that never existed before in India. The girls of one Punjab village are ready.

She needed 20 women, contributing 10 rupees each, to start the group. With most in the village living in poverty, it wasn’t an easy ask. It took Shantha two years of persuasion and creativity to ...