Today, Friday, September 23, 2022, Saudi Arabia celebrating its 92nd National Day. On this day in the year 1932, King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud made the historic announcement when he unified the country under the banner of Islam and named (...)
The video begins with the chugging sound of a train in motion.
A yellow board with Rameswaram written in black lets you know you're departing the island town in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Then you see bucolic landscapes, and then the sea, (...)
Popular Indian comedian Raju Srivastava has died aged 58, his family has confirmed.
Srivastava was being treated at a hospital in the capital, Delhi, following a heart attack on 10 August.
The comedian had been taken to hospital and put on (...)
In the clearest hint of a succession roadmap, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani carved out definite roles for each of his three children at the annual general meeting of his $220bn (£193bn) retail-to-refining conglomerate in August.
Ambani's older (...)
In 2017, India's Supreme Court outlawed the Islamic practice of "triple talaq" which allowed a Muslim man to divorce his wife in minutes just by saying "talaq" (divorce) three times. While the court's decision was celebrated by women's rights (...)
India and France on Wednesday agreed to set up an Indo-Pacific trilateral framework to roll out development projects, decided to expand strategic cooperation and vowed to work closely to deal with pressing global challenges such as food crisis (...)
India's prime minister has described the death of the billionaire former chairman of Tata, the country's largest conglomerate, as a "big loss" for the business world.
Cyrus Mistry died on Sunday in a road accident while traveling to Mumbai.
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Indian multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani has announced a $25bn (£21.3bn) plan to launch 5G mobile internet services in the country within two months.
Ambani, who heads the telecoms-to-retail group Reliance Industries, says the high-speed network will (...)
"It's been over a month of living with nothing," Neelakka Modem, a tribal woman from the western Indian state of Maharashtra, says gloomily as rain trickles down her rickety plastic tent.
She and her family, along with 700 others, were forced to (...)
Asia's richest man Gautam Adani is seeking to take over Indian news broadcaster New Delhi Television, which is widely known as NDTV.
It comes as the multi-billionaire moved to take a majority stake in the firm.
NDTV says this "was executed without (...)
Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and saw 14 members of her family being murdered by a hardline Hindu mob during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat, is back in the headlines.
On Monday, 11 convicts who were serving life (...)
Emirates has announced that its flagship A380 service will be introduced for the first time to Bengaluru in India from 30th October to serve its customers on the busy route, according to Emirates News Acency (WAM).
Emirates became the first airline (...)
In 1929, a young volunteer of the Indian National Congress party had a moment of epiphany.
Nanik Motwane was watching the venerated national hero Mahatma Gandhi struggling to get himself heard at huge pro-Independence public meetings. The leader (...)
Standing in front of the historic Red Fort in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pledged to transform India into a developed country in the next 25 years.
"The way the world is seeing India is changing. There is hope from India and the (...)
Bollywood star Aamir Khan waited for a decade to secure the rights of the 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump.
It was only in 2018 that he began work on Laal Singh Chaddha, a formal adaptation of the Tom Hanks classic, which opens in theatres on (...)
After devastating floods hit India's northeastern state of Assam, claims that members of the local Muslim community were to blame for the disaster began circulating online. But was there any truth to these allegations? One of the accused told the (...)
India's largest auction for 5G airwaves has ended after seven days, potentially setting the stage for a battle of supremacy over India's digital future between two of Asia's richest men — Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani.
A total of 72 gigahertz of (...)
Ila Popat has been living in India for more than five decades.
She got married here, had children, obtained an Indian driving license and even a voter identity card.
But she still can't travel abroad as an Indian because she doesn't have a passport, (...)
Sonia Gandhi, the president of India's opposition Congress party, is being questioned by a government agency in connection with a corruption case.
She and her son Rahul Gandhi have been accused of misusing party funds to acquire valuable real estate (...)
A filmmaker has been arrested for tweeting a photo that showed India's home minister with an official accused of corruption.
Avinash Das had shared the photo of Amit Shah with Pooja Singhal, who has been arrested in a corruption case.
Singhal was (...)
One of India's most-loved beauty queens has been in the eye of a social media storm recently.
Sushmita Sen, the first Indian to win the Miss Universe title in 1994, has made a career as a successful Bollywood actress.
The 46-year-old, who has (...)
Authorities have terminated the services of an official who was in charge of the Indian government's bullet train project over charges of corruption, officials said Friday.
According to an order issued by the National High Speed Rail Corporation (...)
It's that time of the year again when heavy rains in the Indian city of Mumbai and nearby areas have disrupted the lives of millions of people in the country's financial capital.
Many parts of the city remain inundated in waist-deep water as (...)
The Delhi police have registered a case against documentary film Kaali and its director Leena Manimekalai for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with its poster, officials said on Tuesday.
A poster of the film, described as a "performance (...)
A political rift in India's richest state Maharashtra has put the fate of its government in jeopardy.
Eknath Shinde, a senior minister in the state government, says he has the support of 40 of the 56 lawmakers from the ruling Shiv Sena party.
His (...)
