Cafe run by acid attack survivors aims to remove stigma and also offers opportunity for financial independence.
![<p>Staff members take a moment before starting their day at the cafe. According to an ACID Survivors Foundation India [ASFI] report, there have been 518 recorded cases of acid attacks from January 2010 to July 2014.</p>](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/201411277740934605_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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Armed Bangladeshi gangs are kidnapping Indian fishermen for ransom, wreaking havoc, and threatening livelihoods.
A deep-seated cultural preference for boys is skewing India’s sex ratio and making slaves of women.
Nearly 2,500 children, including girls, have been taken by communist rebels with a new recruitment drive under way.
Rural cancer patients cram train for city medical treatment of illnesses many link to the use of pesticides in farming.
![Sixty percent of seats on the 'Cancer Train' are usually occupied by people bound for the hospital [Sujanya Das]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/201514122930657580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
More than 100 workers have died of starvation since West Bengal’s tea estates have begun shutting down.
![Tea estates, like this one, started shutting down in 2002 [Chinmaya N Singh/ Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/201494123317758734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Radioactive waste generated in three government owned mines spurs health fears in eastern Jharkhand state.
![Agnu Murmu spoke to Al Jazeera about the crisis days before he died of cancer [Sanjay Pandey/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014810123314318734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
About 700,000 people in eastern Jharkhand state live amid fires triggered by mining of coal from the surface.
![Some 67 fires - big and small - are currently raging in Jharia [Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/201432865823732734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Poor and unable to find grooms for their daughters, many still seize men at gunpoint in what is known as pakadwa shaadi.
![Manoj Shah, right, fell in love with his wife after he was forced into marriage 20 years ago [ Picture by Chinmaya Nand Singh]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014218105758471580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Baseball and football, together with dedicated individuals, are changing lives of many young girls in India.
