India's "suicide tree" is also a tool for murder
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An Indian tree with poisonous fruit is used by more people to commit suicide than any other plant in the world and has a barely-investigated role in murder, French and Indian scientists say.
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National elections on Sunday are shaped by one of the world's highest murder rates.
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expresses "pain" over the murder of a professor.
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Human Rights Watch urged the Indian government to launch a fresh probe into the mass killing of Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 20 years ago, and make a public commitment to prosecute those behind the violence.
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The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl after luring her to a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh nearly four years ago.
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DHARMAPURI: The &#39;Operation Cocoon&#39;, which ended in the killing of the notorious forest brigand Veerappan and three others in Tamil Nadu&#39;s Dharmapuri district on Monday night, was the result of an &#39;extra ordinary intelligence operation&#39;, K Vijaykumar
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GORKHA, Nepal : Trekking his way up one of the steep forested hills of central Nepal, schoolteacher Lumnath Lamichanne was pounced on by five men with knives and hammers who slashed his body and left him for dead.
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NEW DELHI - On one side is the dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for half a century. On the other is the family of India's most popular actor, a man so revered that his fans have been known to commit suicide out of loyalty to him...
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Police in Brazil are investigating the murder of one of the country's leading experts on indigenous Indians.
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NEW DELHI  - On one side is the dynasty that has dominated Indian politics for half a century. On the other is the family of India's most popular actor, a man so revered that his fans have been known to commit suicide out of loyalty to him.
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First, a jealous husband shot his wife while she slept and cut her body into pieces with a power saw. Then a suicidal snake dealer threatened to kill himself with his cobras and swung the serpents at police officers. Now Vienna police have arrested a man suspected of using two hand grenades to blow up a woman in the capital's fabled forest.
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Poisoning has been used throughout history as a political weapon, but by its very nature, it is a secretive method of killing that is designed to keep people guessing.
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Colombia's Indian tribes are confronting a sudden rise in the suicide rate of their young members.
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India's worst tsunami-hit state, Tamil Nadu, said it had started planting trees along the coastline to act as a barrier against future tidal waves.
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India's drive to adopt a western economic model is threatening those who make their living from the jungle.
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Parents of children believed to have been butchered in one of India's most macabre serial killings unearthed more bones overnight, sparking fresh protests.