Voters in India's most populous and politically important state went to the polls Wednesday, in the first of seven ballots to select members for the 403-seat assembly.
For foreign executives, doing business for the first time in India can be a bewildering experience. There's the new -- different business customs, bureaucracy and the dizzying scale of the population -- but also the familiar.
India's supreme court Thursday ordered the cancellation of 122 cellular permits that have been at the center of a multibillion-dollar scandal involving the country's booming telecommunication sector, attorneys said.
As India's top court scraps telecom licenses amid a scandal, CNN's Sara Sidner explains the background to the case.
France's Dassault has been awarded frontrunner status in the hotly contested $20bn race to supply 126 fighter jets to India, providing a much-needed boost for French economic and industrial prestige.
It has long come as a mystery to soccer fans: how can India, with a population of 1.2 billion and a burgeoning passion for football, be languishing at 162nd in the world rankings below Madagascar and Nepal?
CNN World Sport interviews former India football coach and Olympian on a new Indian Football League.
The world economy may be bracing for another grim year, but political donors in the United States are breaking out their checkbooks to finance what is expected to be the most expensive presidential election in American history.
Entrepreneurship and business are rarely accorded a serious place in discussions around drivers of economic development. A cursory look at the numbers makes this seem very surprising. China has pulled approximately 600 million people out of absolute poverty since Deng Xiaoping unleashed market reforms in the late 1970s. Never in human history have so many people been pulled out of grinding poverty is such a short span of time.
On a visit to Jaipur, India, Oprah Winfrey called the country "the greatest show on Earth" in an interview with CNN sister network CNN-IBN.
In India, milk is used in holy ceremonies, it is offered to the gods, poured over deities and generally considered the healthiest of drinks.
In India, milk used in holy ceremonies is considered the healthiest drink, but a study finds much of it is tainted.
Contaminated bootleg liquor kills more than 100 people in India and sends dozens to the hospital. Ram Ramgopal reports.
Seventeen people died after drinking a toxic, illegal home-brewed liquor over the New Years weekend in southern India, authorities said Monday.
India's president expressed her condolences Sunday for those killed by a devastating cyclone that has forced thousands to seek refuge in emergency shelters.
Cyclone Thane struck India's southeastern coastline Friday, bringing high winds and rain.
India will have to wait some more for a corruption watchdog agency.
India's parliament is debating a bill that would stop rampant government wrongdoing. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
India's beleaguered government huddled with various political parties Wednesday, trying to come up with a way forward on an anti-corruption bill as ailing, elderly campaigner Anna Hazare continued his fast for a second day to protest legislation he slammed as too weak to deal with endemic graft.
Drama unfolded on two fronts of India's battle against corruption Tuesday night.
Australia lost three late wickets as they ended the opening day of the first Test against India in Melbourne on 277-6.
At least 13 people died and 11 were reported missing after a boat capsized Sunday in a southern India lake, authorities said.
Thousands of doctors from public hospitals are striking for better pay in India.
Police have arrested 10 suspects in the sale of toxic, illegally brewed liquor that has left at least 168 people dead in the Indian state of West Bengal, an official said Friday.
Six hospital managers arrested on negligence charges are in custody for questioning after a hospital blaze killed 91 people in eastern India, authorities said Sunday.
Dozens of people were killed when a fire engulfed a hospital in India.
One Oklahoma man uses an annual Christmas light tradition to propose.
Your grown-up kids aren't coming home for Christmas. They're all married, and it's the in-laws' turn to host dinner in another state. Or your divorce is finally final, and your ex has the kids this year. Yes, you can celebrate a few days later, but what do you do on Christmas?
A Maoist strike in eastern India over the recent killing of a top rebel leader received mixed response on the first of the two-day shutdown, authorities said Sunday.
India's economy grew at the slowest rate for more than two years in the second quarter, confirming the country's shift to lower growth rates of about 7 per cent.
Mallika Kapur reports on the move to allow big retailers like Wal-Mart to open stores in India.
When India's aviation sector began liberalizing in 2003, a regional powerhouse was unleashed.
The West Indies escaped with an unlikely last-ball draw in the third Test against India as Sachin Tendulkar's wait for a historic 100th international century continued on Saturday.
India is to throw open its $450bn retail sector to foreign supermarkets, granting access for the first time to giants such as Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco that have long sought to enter an underserved market of 1.2bn people.
Officials say at least 13 people at a transgender gathering in New Delhi were killed Sunday in a massive fire.
At least 13 people at a transgender gathering in New Delhi were killed Sunday in a massive fire, officials said.
Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar created yet another piece of cricket history on Tuesday, becoming the first player to score 15,000 Test match runs.
A stampede at a religious festival in northern India killed at least 16 people Monday, officials said.
The Pentagon is portraying India as a major customer for U.S. military equipment, worth an estimated $6 billion in the past decade, even as U.S. companies are shut out of a multibillion dollar bid for fighter jets that India is starting this week.
A bridge collapse in India's tea-producing region of Darjeeling has left at least 34 people dead, officials said.
India and Pakistan are preparing for the biggest liberalisation in bilateral trade since partition more than six decades ago, reviving commercial ties that have been strangled ever since the end of British rule in 1947.
At least 435 patients, mostly children, have died this year from encephalitis in one of India's most impoverished regions, health officials said.
CNN's Sara Sidner has a sneak peek at India's new bargain tablet that's designed with students in mind.
India's Ministry of Education on Wednesday revealed what it calls the least expensive computer tablet in the world: a device that costs 2,276 rupees, or less than $50.
India will help train Afghan security forces under a deal signed by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, according to a copy of the agreement released by India.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh faces a growing political storm over how to measure poverty in India amid fears that new benchmarks proposed by a powerful policymaking body could see many of the country's poor lose their welfare benefits.
A three-story building caved in Wednesday in southern India after a cooking-gas canister exploded, authorities said.
Authorities ordered immediate culling of poultry in eastern India after samples tested positive for bird flu.
The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake -- and its aftershocks -- along the border of India and Nepal climbed to 21 Monday, officials said.
A bomb exploded Saturday at a private hospital in the tourist city of Agra, India, injuring three people.
Draped in a white shroud, the body of a man is engulfed in flames atop a massive pile of wood, the insatiable fire churning out ashes for hours.
At least 26 people have died in flooding in eastern India over the past week, but waters are now receding, authorities say.
Officials say emergency crews have rescued all trapped survivors after a passenger train rammed into a waiting train. E
A passenger train rammed into a waiting train in southern India, killing nine people and leaving dozens injured, officials said Wednesday.
Terrorist bomb inside a briefcase goes off outside the New Delhi High Court. CNN's Sumnima Udas reports.
India's anti-corruption movement may be basking in the warm afterglow of success after getting the undivided attention of the country -- and its parliamentarians -- on the question of an independent watchdog body to deal with dishonest politicians and government employees.
India's economy registered a slight slowdown in its growth in the first quarter (April to June) this fiscal year. GDP figures came in at 7.7% -- roughly in line with expectations, but lower than the 7.8% growth last quarter.
A Gulf Air plane skidded off a wet runway Monday in southern India, an airport spokesman said. One passenger suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized.
India's parliament on Saturday debated demands by a 74-year-old anti-corruption activist in what an opposition leader called a "historic occasion" for lawmakers to come together in the fight against graft.
While China has been able to use its considerable economic clout to forge strong ties with Africa, experts say India is hoping that a mix of soft power and business expertise can win it friends and customers on the continent.
Sachin Tendulkar fell agonizingly short of his 100th international century as England confirmed their status as cricket's number one team with a 4-0 series whitewash over India.
He wears only khadi, a simple garb of homespun cotton, and lives in a small room off a temple in a remote, drought-prone western Indian village. A veteran of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, he retired from the Indian army and took vows of chastity and public service.
An anti-corruption activist and more than 1,200 supporters are arrested, sparking protests. CNN's Isha Sesay reports.
Forty-six-years after he shot down a civilian plane, a Pakistani fighter pilot apologizes to the pilot's daughter.
England have become the top-ranked nation in Test cricket after crushing India by an innings and 242 runs in the third Test match at Edgbaston on Saturday.
England opener Alastair Cook just missed out on reaching a remarkable triple- hundred as the hosts continued to turn the screw in the third cricket Test against India at Edgbaston on Friday.
Mercy petitions of three condemned prisoners jailed in connection with the 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi have been turned down by India's President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, her spokeswoman told CNN Thursday.
China and India, Asia's two emerging powerhouses, have made no secret of their desire to engage with resource-rich Africa as they seek new economic partnerships to fuel their booming economies.
Activists fighting what they see as rampant corruption in India burnt copies of a new anti-graft bill they reject as lame-duck legislation.
India have suffered a double injury blow in their attempts to retain their status as the world number one nation in Test cricket, with the news that both Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh have been ruled out of the remaining series again England.
England beat India by a crushing 319 run margin with a day to spare in the second test at Trent Bridge to take a 2-0 lead in the four-test series.
There is no reason to believe a little girl spotted in India is Madeleine McCann, the British girl who has been missing for more than four years, a family spokesman said Thursday.
India and Pakistan are set to open a new round of talks this week in the latest attempt by the Asian rivals to build mutual trust.
England took nine second-innings wickets on the final day's play against India at Lord's Monday to take a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series. Stuart Broad took the final wicket of tailender Ishant Sharma to end a remarkable match that saw the fortunes of both teams veer dramatically over the course of 2,000th Test in cricket history.
The 2,000 Test match got off to a rain-disrupted start at Lord's Thursday with England battling to 127 for two wickets by the close after being put into bat by India.
For $700, you could buy 200 gallons of gas, a souped-up iPad or, in India, a house.
Dozens of people were killed when a train jumped its tracks and derailed in northern India.
At least 64 people were killed after a train carrying them jumped tracks in northern India on Sunday, a local official said.
At least 33 people died and 17 were injured when a train collided Thursday with a bus in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, authorities said.
India's health minister said Tuesday he was misquoted by the media in comments made at an AIDS conference that homosexuality is "unnatural" and a "disease" that was brought into India.
Jet-setting spiritual gurus. Gilded temples. Sprawling ashrams. Tons of offerings.
I'm a boy and I'm 14 years old. I'm also exactly 5 feet tall. What is wrong with me?
Residents of a remote village in northern India have few connections to the outside world. They live in mud dwellings with thatched roofs. Electricity is available just two hours a day. And a computer -- well, what's that?
In an attempt to curb runaway inflation, India's central bank raised its benchmark interest rates for the tenth time in sixteen months on Thursday, despite a slowdown in economic growth.
India's inflation climbed to 9.06% in May from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday, fueling expectations of a further increase in interest rates.
The artist known as the Picasso if India, Maqbool Fida Husain, died Thursday in a London hospital on Thursday. He was 95.
Increase of tiger population and human sprawl has created human-tiger conflict. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
At 4.30 a.m., an hour before the sun rises over Bandhavgarh Nature Park in central India, a dozen elephants are prepared for the day ahead.
Riot police broke up an anti-corruption hunger strike led by India's most famous guru in an overnight night raid in New Delhi, giving fresh impetus to the nation's Hindu nationalist opposition to target the federal government for its handling of graft.
India has ramped up its economic push into Africa, announcing Wednesday a slew of investment and trading agreements with countries across the continent.
Suspected Maoist insurgents killed nine policemen during an ambush in eastern India, authorities said Tuesday. A 10th officer is missing.
Soot covers the ceiling, fixtures dangle out of the walls and fan blades, a wrecked bike and broken furniture are strewn across the floor of her dark small home.
Indian farmers say they are being shortchanged in land deals. CNN's Pauline Chiou reports.
An Indian court Friday sent a woman lawmaker to jail to await trial in connection with what is seen as the nation's biggest corruption scandal.
Election results in four major Indian states Friday marked a momentous comeback for the country's ruling Congress-led coalition, although it was undercut in one state by backlash against a graft-tainted coalition member.
The roar of the crowd was deafening on April 9, as 30,000 Indians cheered on their teams at one of Kolkata's most hotly anticipated sporting events -- except this crowd was not supporting record-breaking batsman Sachin Tendulkar or marveling at Harbhajan Singh's fast spin bowl.
The top elected official of a remote state in India's mountainous northeast was declared dead Thursday in a helicopter crash, six days after the copter carrying him dropped off the radar.
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