Geography of India

Watching a person twist and bend their body in all possible ways imaginable is something that always attracts the attention of everyday folk. The feats contortionists can sometimes achieve are truly mind-boggling. It is not a rarity to see Hindu gurus sitting hours upon hours in unnatural positions that seem unattainable. Not surprisingly, the young man who has stunned locals comes from India.

Within days of India announcing plans to assert its right within the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan, China has blocked a tributary of the Brahmaputra River as part of a major hydro-electric project.

China has strongly condemned the recent Pentagon report (submitted to the Congress) in which the US Department of Defence mentioned that Beijing enhanced its military capabilities along the border with India in order to ramp up its geopolitical ambitions in the region, saying that it was Washington's deliberate attempt to "severely" damage the mutual trust between the two Asian neighbours.

An Indian court sentenced Jan. 11 a total of 35 sailors, including several from Britain, Estonia and Ukraine, for illegally entering Indian waters carrying weapons aboard a U.S.-operated anti-piracy boat in 2013.

A judge in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu ordered all 35 crew present in the court to serve five years in jail, the prosecutor in the case, S Chandrasekar told AFP.

Twenty-seven people were killed and 40 injured on July 14 in a stampede in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police said, as crowds surged to bathe in the Godavari River on the first day of a religious festival held once every 144 years. 

An oil spill from a crashed tanker in Bangladesh is threatening endangered dolphins in the vast Sundarbans delta, officials warned Dec. 11, calling it an ecological "catastrophe."