India News

Members of a Hindu hard-line political party on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employees and smash furniture.

Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a passenger train in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police say.

Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who heads the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference, plans to visit Beijing after Eid on Nov 28 on an invitation from an NGO.

The protest, which was backed by opposition parties and unions, led the government yesterday to discuss a compromise with the protesters, a sign of how difficult it may prove to reform heavily-regulated sectors such as sugar and insurance.

Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.

It's the hottest ticket in town. Just don't ask the White House who got them. The White House is saying very little about next week's state dinner with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first for President Barack Obama.

An Indian card player was killed after an argument over winnings of just 6p. The 29-year-old rickshaw puller known only as Aslam was playing cards with his friends Dharambir, 26, and Ajay, 22, in the Sunder Nagri area of New Delhi when the fight which led to his death broke out.

The fortunes of India's richest citizens got a fresh boost from a resurgent stock market that gained two-thirds in the past year on the back of an economy growing at 6 per cent, the `Forbes' India Rich List' showed.

A look at major attacks in Pakistan since the beginning of October: - Nov. 19: A suicide bomber kills 19 people outside a courthouse in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.

It will soon be 25 years since the Bhopal gas disaster took place. The tragedy in India occurred on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984.

One of two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities in that country say.

Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do -- he got his first haircut.

Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.

New Delhi, Nov 18 : US ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer Wednesday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama will try to resolve the remaining issues, including a reprocessing pact, to complete the nuclear deal when they hold talks in Washington next week.

Agencies New Delhi, Nov 17: India is still perceived to be one of the most corrupt countries by the transparency international in its annual corruption perceptions.

According to Home Minister P Chidambaram, a case has been registered in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai attacks against US-based LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley, who was arrested by the FBI earlier this month.

The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered that a US-born child and his Indian mother be sent back to New York, from where she had brought the child following a legal row over his custody with her divorced husband.

Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar mining town to open his own bar.

Mumbai - An Indian woman successfully divorced her husband after he refused to allow her to watch television soap operas, a report said Tuesday.

The Delhi Police team today claimed that it had arrested a close accomplice of a suspected Pakistani agent.