Crusaders against corruption in India have come up with a novel way of confronting bribe-takers -- a zero-value bill that resembles a normal 50-rupee banknote but carries an anti-graft message.
A male passenger and his wife were detained for questioning Sunday after a Dubai-bound flight from Mumbai, India was called back before take-off because of a security scare, the airline said.
In an event considered rare, one of India's low-caste communities has declared its own distinct religion.
At least nine people, including a child, drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying them capsized in southern India Saturday, officials said.
Indian researchers have announced plans to send their astronauts to space in 2016.
Power will belong to the people of India, Mahatma Gandhi envisioned for his country, then ruled by the British.
India apologized to its citizens for a government advertisement, aimed at promoting female children, that showed a former Pakistani air force chief.
India has stepped up anti-hijacking measures and ordered the deployment of air marshals as part of a security alert, officials said Friday.
India is launching a series of rockets to study the impact of Friday's solar eclipse, a rare occurrence that will briefly reduce the sun to a blazing ring.
India and Pakistan vowed cooperation on humanitarian issues, officials in New Delhi said, more than a year after a deadly terror attack in Mumbai derailed the fragile peace process between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Crusaders against corruption in India have come up with a novel way of confronting bribe-takers -- a zero-value bill that resembles a normal 50-rupee banknote but carries an anti-graft message.
A male passenger and his wife were detained for questioning Sunday after a Dubai-bound flight from Mumbai, India was called back before take-off because of a security scare, the airline said.
In an event considered rare, one of India's low-caste communities has declared its own distinct religion.
At least nine people, including a child, drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying them capsized in southern India Saturday, officials said.
Indian researchers have announced plans to send their astronauts to space in 2016.
Power will belong to the people of India, Mahatma Gandhi envisioned for his country, then ruled by the British.
India apologized to its citizens for a government advertisement, aimed at promoting female children, that showed a former Pakistani air force chief.
India has stepped up anti-hijacking measures and ordered the deployment of air marshals as part of a security alert, officials said Friday.
India is launching a series of rockets to study the impact of Friday's solar eclipse, a rare occurrence that will briefly reduce the sun to a blazing ring.
India and Pakistan vowed cooperation on humanitarian issues, officials in New Delhi said, more than a year after a deadly terror attack in Mumbai derailed the fragile peace process between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Seven pilgrims were trampled to death in eastern India Thursday when they tried to board a ferry for a sacred island site, authorities said.
The small print in Tuesday's full-page newspaper advertisements for a key Hindu event reflects one of India's biggest worries -- dirty water.
India's British past stands imposing in some of its most splendid buildings. But the country is erecting a tribute to its French connection to attract tourists.
The BBC previews the actress's visit to India to investigate trafficking of women and children
Four children died early Wednesday in slum fire in New Delhi, officials said.
Thousands of poor farmers in India have committed suicide over the past decade as changes in India's agricultural policy set off a widening spiral of debt and despair, one environmental activist said Tuesday.
A biting cold snap lingered across sections of northern India Monday, hitting the homeless hardest in some of the country's most impoverished regions.
Ten passengers died in a train collision blamed on fog and a power failure in northern India on Saturday, rail officials said.
Indian authorities hope discount train tickets on air-conditioned trains may help the country fight its unemployment problem.
Visiting sick children and other victims was "the most amazing time of my life," the actress says
G20 economies need to quadruple cuts in their carbon intensity levels in the next ten years or risk a dangerous rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new report.
Twenty-five years ago I read a newspaper article which said that one day, reused syringes would be one of the major causes of the spread of AIDS. I thought this was totally unacceptable and decided to do something about it.
Tables set in apple green, ruby and gold with arrangements of roses, hydrangeas and sweet peas awaited guests to Tuesday's White House state dinner.
Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track in eastern India, derailing a train packed with passengers less than a week ahead of regional elections opposed by the powerful rebels, authorities said.
Authorities are investigating the death of six newborns at a government hospital in southern India over allegations of equipment failure and staff negligence.
Dotting a crammed neighborhood in the Indian capital are homes that can be easily located without addresses.
Six passengers were killed and 20 injured when a train derailed in northwestern India early Saturday, officials said.
Indian election authorities Thursday granted what they called an independent identity to intersex and transsexuals in the country's voter lists.
At least 29 passengers were killed and 20 others injured as a bus fell into a gorge in northern India Friday, police said.
Gurdeep Kaur's wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members.
Three people were killed and six others were missing in a massive fire at an oil depot in north-western India, authorities said Friday.
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.
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
Professor Michael Wesch should be flattered.
The cattle slowly drag the old-fashioned plow as a bone-thin farmer walks behind, encouraging them to move faster with a series of yelps.
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.
A train collision in northern India killed at least 22 people early Wednesday.
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.
A raging blaze at a wholesale fireworks store killed at least 32 people in southern India, police said Saturday.
New Delhi will adopt "quiet diplomacy" to find a solution to the problem of Indian-administered Kashmir, India's home minister said.
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.
At least 17 police officers were killed in what Indian authorities say was a shootout with Maoists Thursday.
A blanket of water hides the devastation underneath it. Miles and miles of villages, small cities, and farmland are spoiled by standing flood water.
At least 300 people have been killed and more than 1 million displaced in the flooding triggered by torrential rains in India, officials said Tuesday.
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.
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.
India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans.
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.
A car bomb was found Friday parked outside the home of a state governor in India's troubled northeast, police said. It was later detonated.
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.
Cosmetic advertisements in Asia are targeting men with blunt campaigns aimed at skin color that one lawmaker labels racist.
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.
A newborn baby boy with a heart protruding from his chest is set to undergo a complex surgery in New Delhi, India doctors said Monday.
India has ended its unmanned moon mission after failed attempts to regain contact with the orbiter, an official said Monday.
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.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake shook India's remote northeastern region bordering Myanmar on Monday, authorities said.
Dressed in fancy clothes, she applies eye liner, dabs her nose with a powder puff and the director shouts, "Silence, rolling!"
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.
Doctors say an encephalitis outbreak has killed 130 people -- mostly children -- in northern India since January.
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.
At least 43 people are feared dead after a massive mudslide swept away three hamlets in northern India, authorities said Sunday.
At least 38 people are feared dead in landslides and heavy rains in two hilly hamlets of northern India, authorities said Saturday.
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.
Police in India summarily execute prisoners, torture and threaten suspects and arrest people without reason, a leading rights group said Tuesday.
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.
An air force plane crashed in southern India on Friday, killing both pilots, authorities said.
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.
A government school in southern India has tested pupils' karate skills by running over their outstretched arms with a motorcycle.
Six police officers were killed in a landmine explosion triggered by suspected Maoists in eastern India, authorities said Monday.
India's financial capital of Mumbai was put on a high-tide alert with officials expecting a water rise of up to 197 inches (5 meters).
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.
At least 441 people have died in floods in India from this season's monsoon rains, federal authorities said in their latest report.
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.
A bus carrying about 40 passengers sank in an overflowing canal in eastern India, killing seven of them, officials said Tuesday.
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.
A portion of a partially built bridge for New Delhi's metro rail network collapsed Sunday, killing five people and injuring 15, authorities said.
At least 13 women died and 18 were missing after two boats capsized in western India, police said Sunday.
A landmark ruling that legalized gay sex between consenting partners in India was challenged Thursday in the country's high court, lawyers said.
At least 10 people were killed and 49 injured in blasts at two explosives-making factories in central India, authorities said Monday.
Three people have been killed in religious rioting in southern India between Muslims and Hindus, police said Friday.
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.
Once, they were a prized catch.
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.
Anjali Thakur is living in fear in India. She is a mother afraid for her son. "We are all having sleepless nights," Thakur says.
India's lower house of parliament elected a woman as its speaker Wednesday, a first in the male-dominated chamber's history.
India has criticized the release from house arrest of the leader of a Pakistani group linked to the Mumbai terror attacks.
At least 87 people have been killed in a powerful cyclone that slammed Bangladesh and neighboring India, officials said Tuesday.
Around 1.2 million children are believed to be involved in prostitution in India, the country's federal police said Monday.
The fifth and final phase of India's marathon general election to choose a federal government ended Wednesday.
The death toll from stifling heat in eastern India has risen to 31, officials said Monday.
Between four and 10 security officers on a routine patrol were feared dead after a land mine blew up their cars in central India Monday, police said.
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