Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an "Aladdin's lamp" for $93,000 -- and even conjured up a fake genie -- have been arrested in India, an official said Sunday.

Twenty-four migrant workers were killed and at least 15 injured in a road accident on Saturday in northern India, police said.

Doctors on Wednesday hailed as a "miracle" the survival of a newborn girl found several days after being buried alive

At least 14 people were injured early Saturday when a passenger train derailed in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said.

More than 100 people died in two Indian states after drinking bootleg alcohol, police and media said on Monday, in the worst such case in years.

The death toll from a batch of illegally brewed alcohol in northern India doubled on Saturday, as authorities launched a crackdown, and police and officials were suspended.

A top official at a Indian state-run university urged his students to "murder" fellow students if confronted instead of complaining to him, amid a wave of violence being reported from across the state where the school is based.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the killing of a police officer during mob violence over alleged cow slaughter in northern India, officials said Tuesday.

A senior policeman and another man were killed on Monday in violent protests over a dead cow, an animal sacred in Hindu culture, in India's Uttar Pradesh state, police said.

At India's first hospital for elephants, opened last week in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 49-year old Asha placed her left foreleg on a stool for a doctor to attend to an injury while visitors filmed it all on their mobile phones.

An explosion at a firecracker factory in northern India Friday killed seven people just days before the big Hindu festival of Diwali, police said.

Six persons were killed on Wednesday after nine coaches and the engine of an express train heading to New Delhi from Malda town in West Bengal derailed in Rae Bareli, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.