When the preliminary report into the crash of Air India Flight 171, which killed 260 people in June, was released, many hoped it would bring some measure of closure.
Instead, the 15-page report added fuel to a firestorm of speculation. For, despite (...)
The sudden resignation of India's Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday night has sparked speculation about what prompted the move.
Dhankar, also the chairman of the upper house of the parliament, announced his resignation on the first day of (...)
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 (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that at least five fighter jets were shot down during the latest round of hostilities between India and Pakistan in May, and insisted that it was the United States that "stopped the war" between the two (...)
Police in India are trying to piece together the story of a Russian woman who was found living in a cave in the southern state of Karnataka with her two young daughters.
Nina Kutina was rescued on 9 July by policemen who were on a routine patrol (...)
Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say.
Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death for killing a local man, was set to be (...)
Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114.
Police say Singh was crossing a road in the village where he was born in Punjab when an unidentified (...)
A preliminary report released Saturday by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has revealed that the engine fuel control switches aboard the Air India flight that crashed last month in Gujarat were moved to the "cut-off" position (...)
Survivors of a bridge collapse in India's Gujarat state on Wednesday that killed at least 15 people have said that they initially thought it was an explosion or earthquake.
The cause of the collapse is still to be ascertained, and investigations are (...)
A week after three Indians were kidnapped in Mali, their families say they still have no information about their whereabouts and are concerned about their safety.
India's foreign ministry said the men, who worked in a cement factory in Mali, were (...)
The Pakistan army on Friday said it had killed at least 30 suspected militants during an attempted cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan into the tribal district of North Waziristan.
In an official statement, the military said the group was (...)
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 (...)
A car bomb attack in Pakistan has killed at least 13 soldiers and injured civilians.
Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a military convoy in the north-western tribal region of North Waziristan, near (...)
India has refused to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in China as it did not reflect the country's concerns on terrorism, India's foreign ministry has said.
Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Thursday (...)
Fifty years after it first exploded on Indian screens, Sholay (Embers) — arguably the most iconic Hindi film ever made — is making a spectacular return.
In a landmark event for film lovers, the fully restored, uncut version of Ramesh Sippy's 1975 (...)
At midnight on 25 June 1975, India — a young democracy and the world's largest — froze.
Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended, opposition leaders jailed, the press gagged, and the (...)
Indian investigators say all three militants involved in April's deadly attack on tourists near Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam town were Pakistani nationals from the UN-proscribed militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Police had earlier (...)
Days after the devastating Air India-171 crash killed at least 270 people, investigators from across the world are putting their heads together to find out what exactly went wrong. So far, there is no indication of where the fault lies, and it could (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told US President Donald Trump that Delhi will never accept third-party mediation with Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir, a senior diplomat said.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that Modi "strongly" (...)
Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the crashed Air India flight, a key step in uncovering what caused last week's deadly accident.
The London-bound Air India aircraft, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed soon after (...)
The Indian Coast Guard is trying to tow a burning Singapore-flagged cargo ship away from the coast of Kerala in the Arabian Sea, to prevent "a potential ecological disaster".
The Indian defense ministry on Wednesday said that the situation remains (...)
India is "hopeful" of reaching a trade agreement with the US before the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends on 9 July, the country's foreign minister has said.
In an interview with French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday, S Jaishankar, who is on a (...)
When 26-year-old Umar Sofi received his acceptance letter from Columbia University's School of Journalism, he thought the hardest part of his journey was over.
After trying for three years, Mr Sofi had finally been admitted to his dream university (...)
Authorities have imposed a curfew and shut down the internet in parts of the troubled north-eastern Indian state of Manipur after protests erupted over the arrest of leaders from an ethnic group.
On Sunday, police arrested five leaders of Arambai (...)
In the mid-1970s, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's imposition of the state of emergency, India entered a period where civil liberties were suspended and much of the political opposition was jailed.
Behind this authoritarian curtain, her Congress (...)
