New Delhi (dpa) – A girl who was forced to beg by her father as a punishment for getting poor grades in school was rescued in India's southern city of Mysore, media reports said Wednesday.
The 12-year-old's father, a wealthy coffee planter, was (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – A Norwegian telecommunications company told the Indian government Tuesday it plans to seek damages after subsidiaries in India lost frequency licenses after officials in India were ordered to redo a scandal-plagued (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – A Tibetan exile set fire to himself in New Delhi during a protest Monday against Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit, officials said.
Jampa Yeshi, 27, doused himself with inflammable liquid before immolating himself (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – India's army chief alleged he was offered a bribe of 27 million dollars by a defense equipment lobbyist, charges which sparked an uproar in Parliament Monday.
General VK Singh told the Hindu newspaper that the lobbyist had (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – India's army chief alleged he was offered a bribe of 2.7 million dollars by a defense equipment lobbyist, sparking an uproar in Parliament Monday.
General VK Singh told daily newspaper The Hindu that the lobbyist had offered the (...)
NEW DELHI (dpa): At least 12 deaths have been reported in a swine flu outbreak across four Indian states, health ministry officials said Friday.
The outbreak has affected a total of 129 people since the beginning of March and many of the patients (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Indian rebels have offered to release one of two abducted Italians if authorities accept some of their demands, media reports and officials said Wednesday.
Rebel leader Sabyasachi Panda demanded officials of the Orissa state (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – India's cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines Ltd said Wednesday it was suspending international flights, as credit restrictions make it increasingly difficult to operate.
Banks have refused to lend more to the debt-ridden carrier, (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Each morning the household of 50-year-old shopkeeper Rajinder Singh in New Delhi's Najafgarh district begins a patient wait for water to trickle out of the tap.
As soon as the first drop hits the bucket, the family begins its (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a criminal case against Microsoft India in which it was accused of hosting what was deemed objectionable content on its website, media reported.
Microsoft was one of 21 websites – (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – British author Salman Rushdie lashed out at Pakistani cricket captain-turned-politician Imran Khan, describing him as a “dictator in waiting,” media reports said Sunday.
Rushdie was speaking at a conference in New Delhi from (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Indian police on Saturday identified three Iranian suspects in last month's bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat's wife in New Delhi, officials said Saturday.
Arrest warrants were issued for the suspects who were allegedly helped (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people do not have toilets at home, but more people have telephones, officials said Wednesday citing the latest census data.
The report shed light on contradictions within a country that is (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – More than one-third of the candidates elected in India's recent state elections are currently facing criminal charges, an independent watchdog said Monday.
A total of 242 of the 690 politicians who made it to state assemblies, (...)
NEW DELHI (dpa) – A teenager died and 235 people, mostly children, were hospitalized in Mumbai with an allergic reaction to colored powder during a Hindu festival, news reports said Friday.
The victims, mostly children from the town's slums, (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – India's benchmark Sensex index rose 2.09 percent on Friday, tracking positive cues from other Asian markets on Greece's debt-restructuring plan.
The benchmark 30-share index closed at 17,503.21, 357.72 points higher than its (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of an Indian journalist in connection with last month's bomb attack on an Israeli's diplomat wife in New Delhi.
Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said the suspect was arrested Tuesday night (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – A 2-year-old girl, who police suspect was almost battered to death by a teenage girl, is no longer in the intensive care unit of an Indian hospital following 45 days of emergency treatment, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Tibetan exiles Thursday staged a protest outside the venue of the ministerial talks between India and China in New Delhi.
Draped in Tibetan flags and holding anti-China placards, a dozen protesters gathered in front of Hyderabad (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – A call for a nationwide strike by trade unions in India Tuesday evoked a mixed response, with banking and transport services disrupted across the country.
Millions of workers belonging to 11 major trade unions joined the (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – Indian stocks fell 2.7 per cent on Monday on concerns that surging crude oil prices could lead to higher inflation and a weaker global economy.
The benchmark 30-share index of the Bombay Stock Exchange or Sensex fell 477.82 points (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – The 10th anniversary of deadly religious riots in India's western Gujarat state was marked Monday with a number of events including peace rallies and prayers as campaigners demanded justice for the victims.
The 2002 riots were (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – At least 11 Indian soldiers were killed and another eight were trapped after two avalanches hit India-administered Kashmir, news reports said Thursday.
Eight soldiers were killed when an avalanche hit a workshop of the army (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – India's Supreme Court on Thursday said both police and a protest organizer were to blame for clashes at a New Delhi rally in June in which one person died, news reports said.
It ordered the police and the fund of yoga guru Baba (...)
New Delhi (dpa) – Abu Dhabi-based telecoms firm Etisalat Co said Thursday it was closing its India operations following a recent court order cancelling its licenses.
The Supreme Court this month scrapped 122 licenses issued under allegedly (...)