Cyclone Thane struck India's southeastern coastline Friday, bringing high winds and rain.
Lashing winds and heavy rain pummeled India's southeastern coastline Friday as Cyclone Thane roared onshore killing at least 19 people.
High winds began smacking the southeastern coastline of India as a "very severe cyclonic storm" was expected to move ashore early Friday.
At least 13 people died and 11 were reported missing after a boat capsized Sunday in a southern India lake, authorities said.
A fierce political backlash against a decision to allow foreign retailers to enter the Indian market gained momentum on Sunday when the leader of Tamil Nadu adamantly opposed the liberalisation.
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.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation staged a series of raids at the homes and offices of people at the center of a national telecommunications scandal, a CBI official said.
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.
A government school in southern India has tested pupils' karate skills by running over their outstretched arms with a motorcycle.
At least 14 people are feared dead following a train derailment in eastern India Friday, officials said.
It pays to go in a small south Indian town.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
A natural bridge between India and Sri Lanka, which Hindu revivalists believe is a divine legacy, has become a hot political issue
Indian police arrested the physician parents of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly carried out a Caesarean section under their supervision in an attempt to set a world record, an official said Monday
A stampede at a flood relief center in southern India has killed at least 42 people and injured another 13, according to police.
A stampede at a flood relief center in the southern Indian city of Chennai has killed at least 40 people and injured another 30 people Sunday, according to police.
At least 75 people were killed and 53 injured when rising floodwaters reportedly swept two crowded buses away Friday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to Indian media and authorities.
At least 111 people died and 92 others were injured after an Indian passenger train derailed as it attempted to cross tracks washed away by a flood, officials say.
When Abraham George began looking for a farm in India, he shunned the normal attributes such as fertile land, ample rainfall and roads on which to transport his produce.
A water company that puts all of its profits into clean water projects in developing countries has created an environmentally friendly bottle out of biodegradable plastic.
A tsunami warning from Indian authorities appeared to be a false alarm, as thousands of panicked residents returned to coastal areas after officials said the warning was meant as advice to be careful, not orders to evacuate.
People across Asia are flocking to makeshift morgues seeking lost loved ones after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia, killing more than 26,000 people.
As dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal, countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years focused on relief and rescue efforts, and said the death toll from the giant waves -- already more than 13,000 -- is expected to rise further.
India's railway minister has accused rail operators of negligence and murder as the death toll grew to 38 in Tuesday's deadly head-on collision of two passenger trains in India's northern Punjab state.
India's most wanted criminal, who once boasted of cutting up his victims and feeding them to fish, has been shot dead in an hour-long gunbattle with police in a jungle in southern India.
At least 90 children have been killed in a massive fire at a school in southern India, officials said.
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