SRINAGAR — Poverty had pushed Shahzada Akhtar, a young woman from south Pulwama, to the brink of suicide. She was fighting depression of joblessness and pressure to pay off debts of her father.
Like many Kashmiri women, Akhtar is a breadwinner for (...)
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, a militant Hindu priest, has been arrested over a vitriolic speech he gave against Muslims last month.
the 58-year-old head of the powerful Dasna Devi temple in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) was one of (...)
In November Bhavini received screen recordings from her friends in a Clubhouse room with a title that mentioned her underwear.
The live-audio app allows users to start a virtual room or join one in which other people are speaking.
In these (...)
Several international airlines say they will cancel flights into the United States starting Wednesday amid uncertainty about interference between new 5G cell phone service and critical airplane technologies.
Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways (...)
The Indian government is pursuing its economic growth and reforms strategy with a human face. Although present government has been able to improve on many economic parameters including "Ease of Doing Business" and creating a favorable ecosystem for (...)
Tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) for a festival amid a massive surge in Covid-19 infections, BBC reported.
Devotees believe that bathing in the river Ganges during the (...)
An Indian court has cleared a bishop accused of raping a nun between 2014 and 2016 in a case that had shocked one of the country's oldest Christian communities, BBC reported.
Franco Mulakkal, 54, was arrested in the southern state of Kerala in 2018. (...)
S. Somnath, an eminent rocket scientist, has been appointed as the chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), a personnel ministry order issued on Wednesday said. K. Sivan, the outgoing chairperson, will be completing his extended (...)
After three years in prison, one of India's best-known activists is trying to set up home in a new city and find work.
Bail conditions prohibit Sudha Bharadwaj from leaving Mumbai until the end of a trial in which she is accused of a role in a 2018 (...)
India has begun giving booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to priority groups amid a surge in infections, BBC reported.
Health and frontline workers and people above 60 years with comorbidities are currently eligible to take the jab.
The drive (...)
Police in India have arrested a man suspected of creating an app that put up photos of more than 80 Muslim women for "sale" online last year, BBC reported.
The open source app - Sulli Deals - had been hosted on web platform GitHub in July 2021.
The (...)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday held separate telephonic talks with his counterparts from Egypt and Israel with a focus on further expansion of bilateral ties.
Following his talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, (...)
Last week, a law graduate in India applied for a job as a driver.
Jitendra Maurya was one of more than 10,000 jobless young people who turned up for interviews for 15 low-skilled government jobs in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
Many of them (...)
A total of 125 passengers who arrived in the northern Indian city of Amritsar on a chartered flight from Italy have tested positive for Covid-19, BBC reported.
They will be placed in isolation, health officials said.
They were among 179 passengers (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trapped on a flyover for 20 minutes by protesters in Punjab in what is being reported as a serious security lapse, BBC reported.
Modi was on his way to a memorial in the northern state when the route was (...)
India's health officials raised warning flags on Wednesday as the country reported a massive 55 percent daily spike in COVID-19 infections with 58,097 new cases, double what it reported just four days ago.
Health officials said the surge was largely (...)
A 74-year-old man who died in the western state of Rajasthan was India's first death with the Omicron variant, BBC quoted the country's health ministry as saying.
Officials said the man had been suffering from diabetes and other comorbid (...)
Indian police have arrested the alleged creator of an app that shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on "sale", BBC reported.
Neeraj Bishnoi, 20, is the fourth person to be held in connection with this case.
The app - "Bulli (...)
India is bracing for a third wave of coronavirus as its largest cities — the capital Delhi and financial hub Mumbai — see a surge in cases, BBX reported.
India reported 58,097 cases on Wednesday, a six-fold rise in a week that experts say is fuelled (...)
India reported 37,379 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, the most since early September as the Omicron coronavirus variant overtakes Delta in places such as the capital New Delhi, Reuters reported.
Deaths (...)
Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of India's capital Delhi, has tested positive for Covid-19 — one day after he spoke at a political gathering in the northern state of Uttarakhand with thousands in attendance, according to CNN.
"I have tested positive (...)
Indian police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with an app that shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on "sale", BBC reported.
He is an engineering student from the southern city of Bangalore whose identity has (...)
Police in two Indian states have registered cases after an app shared photos of more than 100 Muslim women saying they were on "sale", BBC reported.
The accused include developers of the app and Twitter handles that shared the images and (...)
Over the course of the last two years since the Indian government decision to abrogate the Article 370 and repeal the Article 35A, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed development in various arenas: social welfare, infrastructural (...)
Indian authorities said Saturday that at least 12 people were killed and 20 others were injured following a stampede at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Press Trust of India reported quoting government officials that the (...)
