After a lifetime spent reciting the eternal love story of the Taj Mahal, veteran tour guide Vishu Das says his faith is shattered.
"The story we have been telling all these years – what if it turns out to be a lie?" he asks, distraught as he looks (...)
India's travel chaos has worsened after the country's largest airline IndiGo cancelled hundreds of scheduled flights on Friday after three days of widespread disruption across its network.
The carrier, which has a 60% market share in India and flies (...)
India's biggest airline IndiGo faced a growing crisis, with more than 300 flights cancelled since Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded nationwide.
Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru - among India's busiest airports - were worst (...)
When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved "by the Christian gospel" the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and among the diaspora about religious freedom and, for (...)
Freebies are powering election victories in India, but can its states afford them?
Over the years, handouts have taken different forms in the hotly contested political landscape of the world's largest democracy. Voters have been lured with (...)
For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India's most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions.
In March, one of the late painter's monumental depictions of rural life, the 14-foot-long "Untitled (Gram Yatra)," (...)
At a bus stand in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, the anxious faces tell their own story.
Nepalis who once came to India in search of work are now hurrying back across the border, as the nation reels with its worst unrest in decades. "We are (...)
The nightmare began with a phone call that would cost Anjali (not her real name) 58.5m rupees ($663,390).
The caller claimed to be from a courier company, alleging that Mumbai customs had seized a drug parcel she was sending to Beijing.
Anjali, a (...)
India has cut taxes on hundreds of goods to boost consumption and mitigate the potential impact of steep US tariffs.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) panel had simplified the consumption tax (...)
Indian doctors have successfully removed "parasitic twins" or two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby.
Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 200 cases being reported worldwide until (...)
International Booker Prize winning-author Banu Mushtaq has found herself in the midst of a controversy after she was invited to inaugurate a prominent festival in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Last week, the state's Congress government (...)
Donald Trump's steep 50% tariffs on India have kicked in, weeks after the US president issued an executive order imposing an additional 25% penalty on India over its purchases of Russian oil and weapons.
This makes India — one of the US's strongest (...)
Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong has said that Beijing "firmly opposes" Washington's steep tariffs on Delhi and called for greater co-operation between India and China.
Xu likened the US to a "bully", saying that it had long benefitted from (...)
India's Supreme Court has modified its previous order asking authorities in Delhi and its suburbs to move all stray dogs into shelters amid widespread protests by animal welfare groups.
The three-judge bench said that strays should be released after (...)
Heavy rainfall in India's financial capital Mumbai has disrupted the lives of millions of people, submerging roads and leading to flight and train cancellations.
Many parts of the city remain inundated in waist-deep water, with videos showing (...)
A recent court ban on feeding pigeons in public spaces in the western Indian city of Mumbai has become a major flashpoint between civic bodies, public health activists and bird lovers.
This month, hundreds of people clashed with police twice while (...)
ALQASSIM — Al Kholood have officially ushered in a new era with the appointment of English manager Des Buckingham ahead of the 2025-26 Roshn Saudi League season.
The announcement, made Thursday, marks the latest strategic move by the Ar Rass-based (...)
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that Washington could increase secondary tariffs on India.
He said the decision would depend on the outcome of President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on (...)
A court in India has acquitted all seven accused in a deadly bombing that struck a Muslim-majority town in Maharashtra state nearly 17 years ago.
At least six people were killed and nearly a hundred injured in the blasts that hit Malegaon in (...)
Auction house Sotheby's has returned a set of sacred jewels believed to be linked to the Buddha's remains to India, after facing mounting pressure from the Indian government and global Buddhist leaders.
The Piprahwa Gems - described by (...)
India's showpiece software industry is facing a moment of reckoning.
The country's biggest private sector employer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), also its largest IT services company, has announced it will cut more than 12,000 jobs at middle and (...)
India's Supreme Court has stayed a recent court verdict which acquitted 12 men who had been convicted for the 2006 Mumbai train bombings.
The Bombay High Court had freed the men on Monday, overturning a 2015 special court verdict which gave death (...)
A court in India has acquitted 12 men who had been convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
Judges had in 2015 sentenced five of the accused to death and the remaining seven to life (...)
For weeks, a battle over language and identity has been raging in India's richest state, Maharashtra.
The row began in April after the Maharashtra government made it compulsory for state-run primary schools to teach Hindi as a third language, apart (...)
A state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for nearly three weeks now has sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern aircraft could get stranded for days in a foreign country.
The F-35B landed at (...)
