President Obama will welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an official state visit Tuesday.
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.
A police officer was killed and another wounded critically when militants fired at them while they were on duty in the capital, Srinagar, Sunday, authorities 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.
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the country's first locally built nuclear-powered submarine on Sunday.
Operations against Maoist rebels were to continue Friday during a week in which Maoist rebels killed more than 10 Indian government supporters and took over eastern Indian villages, a government official said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took the oath of office Friday for a second consecutive term after winning a mandate for his Congress party.
President Obama will welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an official state visit Tuesday.
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.
A police officer was killed and another wounded critically when militants fired at them while they were on duty in the capital, Srinagar, Sunday, authorities 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.
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the country's first locally built nuclear-powered submarine on Sunday.
Operations against Maoist rebels were to continue Friday during a week in which Maoist rebels killed more than 10 Indian government supporters and took over eastern Indian villages, a government official said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took the oath of office Friday for a second consecutive term after winning a mandate for his Congress party.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took the oath of office Friday for a second consecutive term after winning a mandate for his Congress party.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resigned Monday to make a fresh claim to power, after his Congress party won an election mandate over the weekend.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to reclaim a second term with a resounding mandate for his Congress party.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared set for a second term as his Congress party and its allies scored a decisive lead over their opponents on Saturday in a vote count after the country's monthlong general elections.
Indians are voting in their tens of millions in a monthlong general election that creates huge logistical issues in the world's largest democracy. The first round of polling was held on April 16. There are a further five voting phases before the final count is due on May 16.
India's prime minister, in a speech ahead of the G-20 economic summit, called for added funding to developing nations as a way to maintain demand in a troubled global economy.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was discharged from a hospital Sunday, a week after he underwent a heart bypass surgery.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is recovering more quickly than anticipated after having a coronary artery bypass Saturday in New Delhi, the Indian government announced.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "stable, comfortable and making rapid progress" after a successful heart surgery, his office said Sunday.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned a series of terrorist blasts in the troubled Assam state that police say killed at least five people Thursday.
India's top law enforcement official has admitted there were government "lapses" during last week's terror attack on Mumbai, amid outrage over security and intelligence failures.
World leaders have condemned the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in which more than 100 people died.
A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's coordinated and deadly attacks in southern Mumbai, India, but security analysts know next to nothing about the group, and some discount its claim.
Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first intra-Kashmir train Saturday, even as police and paramilitary enforced an undeclared curfew in parts of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
A Maoist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu leader, whose death sparked a wave of Hindu-Christian riots in southern India.
The leaders of the United States and India on Saturday hailed a decision by 45 nations that withdraws a worldwide ban on nuclear trade with India.
Extreme flooding has displaced millions of people on either side of the India-Nepal border after a river burst its banks, authorities said Thursday.
Having consolidated her power through opposition to a nuclear deal with the U.S., lower-caste politician Mayawati aims for the top job
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence this week, allowing his ruling party to keep in play a proposed nuclear partnership with the United States.
President George W. Bush called India's prime minister Thursday to push a proposed nuclear partnership that sparked an unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the Indian leader this week, a White House spokesman said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh easily won a vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament on Tuesday evening, more than two hours behind schedule but with a comfortable margin of victory
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence Tuesday, allowing his ruling party to keep in play a controversial, proposed nuclear partnership with the United States.
The vote of confidence in the Congress party-led government could decide the fate of a nuclear deal with the US
Analysis: Business is booming between the two Asian juggernauts, but decades of geopolitical hostility remain unresolved
Analysis: If the India-U.S. nuclear pact fails, it could bring down the government and impede India's economic reforms
A row over a nuclear deal with the U.S. threatens to destabilize India's coalition government -- and set back the country's plans for economic liberalization
The U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch has lambasted the Indian government for what it calls "its failure in checking rights violations by its security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir."
The sprawling, bustling city of Mumbai stood still as millions of its residents observed two minutes of silence to mourn the victims of last week's deadly train attack.
Pakistan has issued regrets over India's postponement of bilateral talks this week and denied claims that terror acts -- such as last week's Mumbai train bombings -- are being planned and launched by anti-Indian insurgents based in Pakistan.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- who traveled to a Mumbai hospital to visit injured victims of Tuesday's rush-hour railway terror attacks -- said Friday that Indian-Pakistan relations could be a casualty of the deadly attack as well.
Walk into the Big Bazaar store in Inderlok, a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Delhi, and you can see the business opportunity as clearly as you can see the merchandise. Electronic equipment is d...
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi killed 14 people, Indian authorities have told CNN.
Three explosions in the holy Indian city of Varanasi have killed 14 people and wounded dozens more, Indian authorities have told CNN.
It came down to the final minutes.
In her first major interview since turning down the Indian prime ministership in May 2004, Sonia Gandhi says she has no regrets over her decision not to take up the post.
A pharmaceutical sales executive who is believed to be the "financier, conspirator and spokesperson" behind last month's New Delhi bombings is in police custody, authorities said Sunday.
The main militant group suspected of being behind the deadly weekend bomb attacks in New Delhi has denied any responsibility, according to news reports.
India's prime minister has told Pakistan's president there are indications of foreign links to the New Delhi bombings and reminded him of his country's pledge to fight terrorism.
India's king of beer hunkers over the bar in the leather-trimmed lounge of his Boeing 727. Vijay Mallya's tie is askew, his eyes are rimmed with red, but he declares the past 23 hours "a great, great day." The 49-year-old liquor baron has been up since 3 A.M., flying from Mumbai to Calcutta to talk with investors and employees of Shaw Wallace, a rival acquired in March by his United Breweries Group. The $370 million purchase, ending a 20-year takeover struggle, has made UB second only to Diageo as the world's largest liquor company by volume. Earlier in the day Mallya had toured Shaw Wallace's headquarters like a conquering general, addressing shareholders and holding forth in a whirl of interviews with the local press. Now, jetting back to Mumbai at 2 A.M., it's Mallya time. The secret of his success, he muses, swirling a goblet of red wine, is that he understands the aspirations of the modern Indian consumer. "The old 'Be Indian, buy Indian' nonsense doesn't cut it these days," he scoffs. "Indians are o
Manmohan Singh, who helped start India down the road of economic reform as Finance Minister in the early 1990s, became Prime Minister in May 2004. FORTUNE's Rik Kirkland spoke with him during his v...
Stores in Indian marketplaces struck by deadly explosions reopened for business as New Delhi residents cautiously resumed their lives and prepare for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.
Three explosions ripped through New Delhi within minutes of each other Saturday evening, killing at least 55 people.
Ten people were confirmed dead early Thursday after a major fire tore through an offshore oil platform off the Bombay coast, India's Coast Guard said.
Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott is expected to meet with Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday, a move that some industry watchers say clearly underlines the retailer's growing commitment to enter the subcontinent sooner than later.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says it is time to convert the world's highest battlefield into a peace mountain.
The leaders of India and Pakistan have issued a joint statement declaring the peace process between their two nations "irreversible" after a weekend of successful talks.
Indian Premier Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf met for two-and-half hours in a bid to negotiate a solution to the conflict in the disputed region of Kashmir.
The first bus service across disputed Kashmir in nearly 60 years came under fire minutes after it started its journey, according to local media.
The chief minister of Indian Punjab was greeted by thousands of people waving Indian and Pakistani flags as he was driven along the 20-kilometer (12-mile) road from the border to Lahore Monday morning.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has visited the tsunami-ravaged Andaman and Nicobar islands, mingling with grief-stricken women and children, and promising to speed up the relief and rehabilitation.
India's former prime minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, died Thursday at a New Delhi hospital after a lengthy illness. He was 83.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his first visit to Kashmir since taking office, has poured cold water on a Pakistani plan to redraw the disputed territory's borders.
Indian soldiers traded gunfire with militants in the Kashmiri summer capital of Srinagar as New Delhi started withdrawing some troops from the highly militarized frontier with Pakistan.
The leaders of India and Pakistan have held their first meeting together which they hailed afterwards as a "historic day."
The leaders of nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have held their first meeting -- a one-hour session that produced a joint statement calling for more bilateral talks, the pursuit of peace in Kashmir, and an idea for a gas pipeline between the two countries.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for a sustained war on terrorism and reaffirmed his willingness to continue peace talks with nuclear neighbor Pakistan.
From the moment Manmohan Singh became prime minister in May, analysts in New Delhi began questioning the longevity of the United Progressive Alliance government.
At least 15 people have been killed in a bomb blast in India's northeastern Assam state, as people gathered to celebrate India's independence day, local police said.
India's newly appointed prime minister, Manmohan Singh, was sworn in Saturday evening, marking the first time a non-Hindu has led the country.
A career bureaucrat, professor, economist -- there are many things that distinguish Manmohan Singh but politics is not one of them.
In his first address to the Indian nation, prime minister-elect Manmohan Singh said the country needed reform but with a "human face."
Sonia Gandhi will meet with Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday morning to discuss the formation of a new government, a government official told reporters.
Coalition supporters of India's Congress Party have unanimously agreed to back Sonia Gandhi in her bid to become prime minister of a multi-party government, Congress Party leader Manmohan Singh told reporters.
The riots that followed December's destruction of a mosque by Hindu fanatics shook the foundations of the government's 18-month-old effort to liberalize the economy. Prolonged sectarian violence, w...
AFTER DECADES of standing stubbornly in the way of foreign investors, the Indian government is now rolling out its best Kashmiri carpets. Take General Electric's application to form a $40 million j...
AFTER DECADES of standing stubbornly in the way of foreign investors, the Indian government suddenly is rolling out its best Kashmiri carpets. Take General Electric's recent application to form a $...
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