Child victims of sex assaults in India often find themselves humiliated by the police and mistreated by doctors when they pluck up the courage to report abuse, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

India hopes to sign a US$12 billion deal to buy Rafale jets from France's Dassault Aviation by the middle of the year, the country's air force chief said Thursday.

Scores of demonstrators demanded Monday that the Indian government repeal a new sexual violence law the Cabinet hurriedly passed last week and replace it with a more comprehensive measure.

An Indian government scientist said Friday that air quality in New Delhi has worsened this week and is now “very poor,” although it should not be compared to China's capital, which has been reeling under serious air pollution.

A cross-border bus service between India and Pakistan, suspended along with trade after deadly army clashes earlier this month, resumed Monday in a sign of easing tension between the neighbors.

An Indian teenager accused of taking part in the Dec. 16 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi will be tried as a juvenile, facing a maximum of three years in prison if convicted, a special panel ruled on Monday.

India unveiled a new long-range nuclear missile that can hit anywhere in China and warned rival Pakistan not to take its friendship “for granted” as it celebrated its Republic Day with a big parade Saturday.

In the court of public opinion, the men being tried in the gang rape of an Indian university student should be hanged in a public square.

The trial of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus began in a closed courtroom Thursday with opening arguments by the prosecution lawyers in a special fast-track court set up just weeks ago to handle sexual assault cases.

A far-right political party is distributing thousands of knives to women in a western Indian state to help them protect themselves after a fatal gang rape last month alarmed the country.