Monkey's at Hindu Temple Attack Children
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GAUHATI, India - Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have attacked up to 300 children over three weeks, temple officials said Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI -- Eight-year-old Tejas Vohra is used to spending most of his after-school hours watching "Power Rangers," "Transformers" and "Looney Tunes." But these days, one of his favorite superheroes is a cool cartoon version of Hanuman, the monkey-headed Hindu god.
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A court in Calcutta bans touts from the famous Kalighat temple following charges of harassment.
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Bangalore municipal workers started rounding up thousands of street dogs Sunday in India's high-tech hub after a young child was savaged to death by a pack of neighbourhood strays last week.
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Six more children have died of encephalitis in northern India, pushing the toll from an outbreak that erupted in late June to 151.
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At the Sri Siva Vishnu temple in Lanham, 11 Hindu priests recite mantras before intricately chiseled altars to deities carved by expert temple stonemasons. They offer the idols lentils and rice prepared in a small kitchen by Haridas Padithaya, 38, who looks like a line cook in his stained T-shirt...
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During a recent visit to Jaipur I was informed that in the last two years the clinics and nursing homes of over 30 doctors had been attacked by attendants and friends of patients and the public.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 -- Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday.
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A Thai Buddhist temple has been reprimanded by religious authorities for selling amulets containing the ashes of cremated infants to raise money for a plot of land and a crematorium, an official said on Tuesday.
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Five adults and an 8-year-old boy were trampled to death and at least 12 people injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in southern India on Thursday, a state government official said.
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Six people were hurt Friday in blasts in two mosques in western India. Unidentified men on motorcycles hurled crude bombs at the mosques in Jalna town and Parbhani district
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A Buddhist monk walks past Thai soldiers on their vehicles at a temple in Pattani provine, southern Thailand. The three Muslim-majority southern provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand have been hit by a wave of violence.
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A lion mauled a man who jumped into its cage Wednesday at a zoo in Taiwan&#39;s capital, yelling religious slogans. Cable TV stations captured the attack in which the man apparently escaped without being seriously injured.
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More than 300 Hindu pilgrims were trampled to death and 200 injured in a stampede at a religious festival in western India.
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A 5-year-old boy and his 7-year-old brother were killed this weekend in Bangladesh after a herd of wild elephants rampaged through the village of Panihata.
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Survivors in tsunami-hit Aceh crowded battered mosques to pray during an Islamic festival on Friday as aid workers found many toddlers in Indonesia were likely among the 225,000 killed by the Indian Ocean wave.
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At least three children are reported to have died by accident  while acting out the recent hanging of a Calcutta man convicted of rape and murder.