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 (...)
Investigators have recovered flight recorder data from the Air India crash earlier this month, the civil aviation ministry has confirmed, marking a key step in the probe.
At least 270 people were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born. But it always comes back to one question: 'Can we afford it?' She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her (...)
India's Coast Guard is continuing efforts to douse a fire on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Arabian Sea near the coast of the southern state of Kerala.
MV Wan Hai 503, which was heading to India's Mumbai city from Sri Lanka's Colombo, (...)
