Three people died and 14 were injured when two express trains collided in thick fog in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh Saturday, a senior railway official said. The accident happened near Tundla, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the Taj Mahal town of Agra, when the driver of one of the trains apparently did not react to a signal ...

GORAKHPUR, India (Reuters) - As global leaders and top scientists in Copenhagen debate how to deal with climate change, farmers in flood-prone areas of northern India are taking it into their own hands to adapt to shifts in the weather. For decades, people of Uttar Pradesh, whose population is more than half that of the United States, have been witnessing erratic ...

More than 40 people have died in a cold snap gripping northern India which prompted the authorities on Monday to shut thousands of schools and dole out firewood, officials said. India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh has recorded 30 cold-related deaths since Saturday, police spokesman Soren Srivastava said in the state capital Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh chief bureaucrat Arun Kumar ...

More than 30 people have died in cold weather-related incidents in northern India in the past 24 hours, including 10 people killed in train accidents caused by dense fog, police said Sunday. A cold snap left at least two dozen homeless people dead in ...