The Mumbai special court has once again rejected a bail plea by the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan,18 days after he was arrested for allegedly doing recreational drugs at a party.
Aryan Khan, 23, was taken off a cruise ship that was on (...)
In his address to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, Narendra Modi reaffirmed India's commitment to democracy, highlighted its great strides in developing and manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines, and warned against "countries (...)
US President Joe Biden said bilateral ties between India and the US, the world's two largest democracies, is destined to be "stronger, closer and tighter, as he hosted India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House for the first bilateral (...)
Kuwait will resume direct commercial flights with India on Tuesday, the Gulf country's civil aviation authority said on Monday.
As per the quota by Directorate General of Civil Aviation a total of 768 daily arrivals from Indian destinations will be (...)
New Zealand on Tuesday reported its first case of COVID-19 in the community in six months after a person tested positive in its largest city of Auckland.
The link between the case and the border or managed isolation is yet to be established, the (...)
Bearing testimony to the growing defense ties between India and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, INS Kochi, the flagship destroyer of Indian Western Naval Fleet, arrived at Port Al-Jubail on Monday.
The arrival of the ship heralds a new chapter in the (...)
At least 136 people have died in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said Saturday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds of villages.
At least 38 people were killed in (...)
Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll from landslides and accidents caused by torrential monsoon rain rose to 125, Reuters reported.
Maharashtra state is (...)
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman sent a cable of condolences to Indian President Ram Nath Kovind over deadly landslides that hit the western state of Maharashtra, leaving dozens dead and scores injured.
In his cable, King (...)
Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit parts of western India, killing at least five people and leading to the overnight rescue of more than 1,000 other people trapped by floodwaters, AP cited an official on Friday.
The dead were killed in (...)
India reported on Friday 35,342 new COVID-19 cases and 483 deaths in last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said, according to Reuters.
The country's tally of infections now stands at 31.26 million and fatalities at 419,470, health ministry data (...)
India reported its highest death toll in a month on Wednesday - at nearly 4,000 - after its richest state reconciled its death count with 3,509 previously unreported fatalities, the health ministry said, according to Reuters.
Maharashtra, home to (...)
At least 31 people were killed when torrential rain swept through India's financial capital late on Sunday, triggering landslides that crushed cars and houses while leaving neighborhoods devastated.
Twenty-one people died in the Mumbai suburb of (...)
At least 15 people died after several houses in two Mumbai suburbs collapsed due to landslides caused by heavy rainfalls, local officials said on Sunday.
Rescuers were seen using hands to dig up the ground to retrieve bodies, local television (...)
At least 20 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the Indian city of Mumbai, officials said Sunday, according to the Associated Press.
India's National Disaster Response Force said 17 people were killed and two (...)
Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the violence faced by Rohingya refugees, has been killed in clashes near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Siddiqui was the news agency's chief photographer in India, based in (...)
Legendary Indian actor Dilip Kumar died Wednesday morning after prolonged illness, his family and doctors treating him said. He was 98.
Dilip Kumar, known to generations of filmgoers as 'tragedy king', had been admitted to the intensive care unit (...)
Thousands of people have fallen prey to an elaborate wide-ranging scam selling fake coronavirus vaccines in India, with doctors and medical workers among those arrested for their involvement, authorities say.
At least 12 fake vaccination drives were (...)
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and producer-director Kiran Rao have announced that they are separating after 15 years of marriage. In a statement, they said they would raise their son together and still work on joint projects.
"In these 15 beautiful (...)
India's financial capital of Mumbai will see no immediate relief from restrictions imposed to check the transmission of COVID-19. The western Indian state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, did away with two levels of liberal relaxation (...)
India reported 58,419 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours on Sunday, the lowest daily number in nearly three months, data from the health ministry showed.
The total number of cases of COVID-19 in India have risen to 29.9 million and so (...)
At least 11 people, including eight children, have been killed after a residential building collapsed in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
Rescue efforts are underway as more people are feared trapped in the debris, officials say.
An investigation (...)
With COVID-19 infections coming down to the lowest level country-wide in nearly two months to 120,529 new cases during the last 24 hours, India's major cities Sunday announced significant relaxations in lockdowns in New Delhi and Mumbai.
Government (...)
India on Sunday reported its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections in 46 days at 165,553 cases during the previous 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,460, according to Reuters.
The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 27.9 (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be increasing its aid to India by shipping another shipload of liquid oxygen, as the Asian country battles a second wave of COVID-19.
This new aid follows last month's shipment of 80 tons of liquid oxygen to India (...)
