Australia remained top of the one-day international world rankings with a 24-run victory in the fourth match of their series against India in Mohali on Monday.
Most Indian mothers want their daughters to marry decent men who make a good living. Now, in parts of rural India, women have a new -- and rather unusual -- demand for matrimony: a toilet.
A bridge and a water pipeline collapsed on a train passing underneath in western India on Friday, killing at least one and injuring six others, police said.
Three U.N. ambassadors on the front lines of the fight against radical Islamist terrorism presented a united front Thursday against extremism in an unprecedented joint public appearance on a major television news program.
Australia remained top of the one-day international world rankings with a 24-run victory in the fourth match of their series against India in Mohali on Monday.
Most Indian mothers want their daughters to marry decent men who make a good living. Now, in parts of rural India, women have a new -- and rather unusual -- demand for matrimony: a toilet.
A bridge and a water pipeline collapsed on a train passing underneath in western India on Friday, killing at least one and injuring six others, police said.
Three U.N. ambassadors on the front lines of the fight against radical Islamist terrorism presented a united front Thursday against extremism in an unprecedented joint public appearance on a major television news program.
Thousands of workers were part of a strike in an important north Indian industrial hub Tuesday, underscoring touchy labor relations in Asia's third-largest economy.
The economic might of India may bring to mind technological savvy and overseas call centers. But to understand the Indian economy, a visit to a roadside dentist like Raj Kishore is more illuminating.
Suspected Maoists bombed a school and a railway track, and set several communication towers afire, Tuesday in eastern India in anticipation of a government crackdown, authorities said.
Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track, a bridge and fired at a bus Monday in eastern India ahead of a planned crackdown by paramilitaries and police.
The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday.
India's hopes of qualifying for the Champions Trophy semifinals hang by a thread after their game against Australia was abandoned due to heavy rain at Centurion on Monday.
Ford Motor Company unveiled a new small car at a press conference in Delhi, India on Wednesday. The subcompact, which is called the Figo, will be produced in India for the Indian market, as well as for export to other Asian countries and Africa.
Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto-parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday.
Seven suspects arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai, India, attacks of last year will be charged in their next court appearance September 26, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Saturday.
Israel has warned a terrorist group was planning attacks on Israeli and Western tourists in India, and advised its citizens against traveling to certain parts of that country.
The shooting death of a Muslim woman and three others five years ago has sparked a political row in India after a probe said the gun battle in which she was alleged to have been killed was staged.
Some 50 mothers-in-law have come together in a campaign seeking legal protection from what they allege is abuse of laws favoring daughters-in-law in the country.
South India's sun beats down on a long line of trucks wending to the Bay of Bengal. In the back of these trucks, giant, brightly painted statues of the Hindu god Ganesha are waiting to be dropped in the nearby ocean.
It's a sweltering day in May, the hottest time of year in the South Indian town of Sathanur. In the shade of a whitewashed storefront, a rugged, mustached man named Nagabhushana Achalu is filing his first application for a certificate that will help his children go to school. Within minutes the kiosk operator behind the counter has logged on to the state government's intranet and sent Nagabhushana's application to a server in the state capital, 40 miles away.
On World Population Day this year India's new health and welfare minister came out with an idea on how to tackle the population issue: Bring electricity to every Indian village so that people would watch television until late at night and therefore be too tired to make babies.
Indian investigators are investigating a North Korean vessel they say had ignored warnings and sailed close to an unusual location off its remote island chain in the Bay of Bengal.
Commodity prices are flashing a danger signal for the world economy. Generally, price spikes occur at the peak of economic cycles. This time however, a sharp rebound is coinciding with an economic trough.
Expanded testing across India in the past three years shows a 2,000 percent jump in the number of HIV cases among children, the country's health minister announced Wednesday.
Authorities are investigating reports that disabled children in India were buried up to their necks during this week's solar eclipse as a supposed remedy for their handicaps.
Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.
While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised India's efforts to reduce carbon emissions Sunday, but India's environment minister said the country won't agree to "legally binding" limits on greenhouse gases.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled Friday to Mumbai, India, the first stop on a weeklong visit to that country and Thailand, where she will attend meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Flashback to 1984: As a child, I am glued to my family's black-and-white television set for our daily dose of evening entertainment and news on India's national broadcaster.
At least three cranes collapsed at a New Delhi metro rail construction site Monday, a day after a subway bridge collapsed at the same location and killed at least five people.
Shweta Gupta knows exactly what kind of groom she wants: he should be educated, well settled and live in a good location --- one that must be in India.
Religious groups in India have warned they will oppose any move to legalize homosexuality as the federal government prepares to hold talks on a law that classifies same-sex acts as crimes.
Pista Devi struggles to keep her toes from poking out through the holes in her shoes, as she pushes and pulls a wicked-looking farm tool. She is a widow, struggling to feed herself and five children.
Holders India have surprisingly crashed out of the World Twenty20 tournament after losing by three runs to host nation England at Lord's -- their second successive Super Eights defeat.
Indian stocks Monday overshot their upper limit after the resounding victory of pro-reform prime minister Manmohan Singh's Congress party, forcing trading to close for the day.
More than half of the voters in the eight states participating Thursday in India's general elections cast ballots for a new federal government, election officials said.
It would be a groundbreaking deal if consummated: According to press reports, telephone operator Sprint is in serious discussions with Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson to outsource management of its wireless network to the Swedish equipment maker. If finalized, the arrangement would make Sprint the first major U.S. wireless operator to cede total maintenance of its network to a third party consultant.
At least eight villagers have died and about 45 more have been hospitalized after drinking illegally-brewed liquor in eastern India, officials said Tuesday.
The death-toll from sunstroke has risen to at least 22 in eastern India although the grueling heat wave sweeping across many parts of the country is abating, authorities said.
A land mine planted by suspected Maoists exploded as a police patrol made security sweeps during elections in eastern India, with at least one officer suffering shrapnel wounds, authorities said Thursday.
Suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India who held up a train carrying 300 passengers Wednesday ended their siege after a four-hour standoff, officials said.
New violence marred India's general elections Friday as suspected militants attacked Indian border guards as they escorted polling staff through a treacherous passage in troubled northeastern Assam state Friday, police said.
India begins voting Thursday to choose a new government in a mammoth exercise covering more than three million square kilometers of the planet in scattered polling until next month.
More than 200 heavily armed suspected Maoists ambushed a police patrol in central India, killing 10 officers and injuring 16, authorities said Saturday.
Hindu priest Pandjitee is not overweight, does not smoke or drink and follows a strict vegetarian diet. Yet three years ago he was suddenly struck by a heart attack.
India clinched their first series win in New Zealand since 1968 on Tuesday when the third Test ended in a draw after the final day in Wellington was hit by bad weather.
India continued to dominate on day three of the third and final Test at Wellington's Basin Reserve to close in on their first series win in New Zealand in over 40 years.
India are on course for a series-clinching victory in Wellington after skittling out New Zealand for 197 on the second day of the third and final Test.
Test record runs scorer Sachin Tendulkar led the way for India on the first day of the third and final Test in Wellington on Friday, but New Zealand kept alive their hopes of leveling the series.
India's Department of Atomic Energy is sending an investigative team to the northern state of Punjab after traces of uranium where found in the hair samples of children and adults with disabilities.
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