The Indian Navy's rescue of a commercial ship from pirates off Somalia's coast last weekend shows how Delhi's military has developed special forces capabilities on par with some of the world's best, analysts say.
The navy rescued 17 crew members of (...)
Indian PM Narendra Modi is on his first visit to the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley since revoking the region's semi-autonomous status in 2019.
Modi will address a rally in Srinagar, just weeks before India's general election dates are (...)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to the Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya.
The temple replaces a 16th-century mosque razed by Hindu mobs in 1992. The demolition had sparked nationwide riots in which (...)
كل 11 عاماً تقريباً، تمر الشمس بما يعرف ب«الحد الأقصى للطاقة الشمسية»، عندما تظهر العديد من البقع الداكنة الغريبة على سطحها تسمى البقع الشمسية، وهذه البقع التي يمكن أن تتجمع معاً وتشكل ما يشبه الأرخبيل، ناتجة عن تغيرات هائلة في المجال المغناطيسي (...)
A thick layer of toxic foam has once again coated parts of a sacred river near New Delhi as the Indian capital battles an acrid and noxious smog that has settled across the city.
The white froth, a mixture of sewage and industrial waste, has formed (...)
The last time three-year-old Anirudh was captured on video, he lay listlessly on a hospital bed with wires attached to his hands.
His mother is seen desperately trying to feed him, talking about the games he can play once he recovers.
Three days (...)
RIYADH — As the AFC Champions League group stage draw unfolds, a spellbinding alliance has set hearts racing in both the football and culinary realms.
The renowned Al-Hilal, led by the Brazilian maestro Neymar, finds itself sharing a group with (...)
The working sessions of the second ministerial meeting on combating corruption in the G20 countries concluded here Saturday, emphasizing the need for cooperation to attain this goal.
The Kingdom participated with a delegation headed by President of (...)
A 44 foot-long Japanese style handscroll painted by a famous Indian blind artist nearly 100 years ago has resurfaced and gone on public display for the first time in the city of his birth, Kolkata.
Benodebehari Mukherjee, born in 1904, was blind in (...)
Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake.
"Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side," the 32-year-old (...)
India's railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a "change in electronic interlocking" the likely cause.
Ashwini Vaishnaw later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in (...)
People found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be "punished stringently", the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.
At least 288 people were killed and more than 800 injured in Friday's incident in Odisha state, (...)
The US embassy and its consulates in India have launched several new initiatives to cut wait time and increase visa processing across the country.
The current wait-time for Indian visitors is 500-600 days.
The US mission said its services in India (...)
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.
They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated (...)
India's financial capital Mumbai has been witnessing "very poor" air quality in recent days.
It's capital Delhi that usually makes headlines for having dangerous levels of air pollution during the winter months.
But Mumbai, which has a vast (...)
At the 1,000-bed not-for-profit Kasturba Hospital in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, doctors are grappling with a rash of antibiotic-resistant "superbug infections".
This happens when bacteria change over time and become resistant to drugs (...)
Police in India's Kolkata city have opened an investigation into allegations that independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was depicted as a demon at the ongoing Durga Puja festival.
A festival structure that showed Hindu goddess Durga aiming her trident (...)
An Indian woman who needed an emergency surgery was airlifted from the United States to her home country this week in one of the longest aeromedical evacuations in recent years here.
The flight lasted 26 hours and stopped three times on the way — (...)
Indians are paying their tributes to popular singer KK, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday night, hours after performing at a concert.
The 53-year-old, whose real name was Krishnakumar Kunnath, sang hundreds of songs over his career, which began in (...)
India's aviation minister has said he is investigating a domestic airline after it allegedly refused to let a disabled teenager board its flight.
The airline's staff told the teenager's parents that he was a risk to other passengers.
The incident (...)
Last March, four gardeners working in a condominium in Gurgaon, a suburb near the Indian capital, Delhi, took shelter under a tree during a downpour.
Within minutes, an orange flash raced down the trunk followed by pealing thunder. Lightning usually (...)
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 sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in India over the past week has sparked fears that a third wave, driven by Omicron, is around the corner, BBC reported.
The country reported 16,764 new infections and 220 deaths on Friday for the last 24 hours.
This is (...)
India's government has refused to renew the foreign-funding license for a charity founded by Mother Teresa, according to BBC.
The Missionaries of Charity has thousands of nuns supervising projects like homes for abandoned children, schools, clinics (...)
Earlier this year, Raja and Priti Narasimhan kicked off a road trip across India armed with one message: stop spitting in public. The couple carried a loudspeaker and blared their message from inside a car covered in anti-spitting slogans.
If you (...)