Ratan Tata, the philanthropist and former chairman of Tata Group who has died aged 86, played an instrumental role in globalizing and modernizing one of India's oldest business houses.
His ability to take bold, audacious business risks informed a (...)
The southern Indian state of Karnataka has paused a bill that mandated quotas for locals in private sector jobs after pushback from tech companies.
The state cabinet approved the bill on Monday, triggering protests from top industrialists and (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will welcome Vladimir Putin to China on Thursday for the Russian president's second visit in less than a year – the latest sign of their growing alignment amid hardening global fault lines as conflict devastates Gaza and (...)
In India's Bengaluru city (formerly Bangalore), thousands of people have been chasing tankers, taking fewer showers and sometimes missing work to store enough water to get through the day.
The southern metropolis -- once called a pensioners' (...)
Qatar Airways Group and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have signed a global partnership set to transform the fan experience at Asian football competitions in the coming years.
The partnership will run from 2023 to 2029 in time for the AFC (...)
Forty-one Canadian diplomats have recently left India amid a rift over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader on Canadian soil.
India asked Canada two weeks ago to withdraw dozens of its diplomatic staff and threatened to remove their immunity if (...)
Last week, India's government unveiled three new bills in parliament, stating that they would usher in a "significant transformation in our criminal justice system".
The bills are crafted to abolish and replace a trio of criminal laws. The Indian (...)
The leaders of 26 Indian opposition parties are meeting to firm up their strategy to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in the general election due next year.
Top opposition leaders including the Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Delhi chief (...)
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 (...)
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has fined two players, including star batsman Virat Kohli, and a team mentor for an altercation caught on camera.
Kohli and Lucknow Super Giants' mentor Gautam Gambhir were fined 100% of their fee for an IPL match (...)
An Indian actor who was arrested this week over a tweet criticizing Hindu nationalist ideology has often made headlines for his political views.
Chetan Kumar was arrested on Tuesday over a recent tweet where he said the Hindutva ideology promoted by (...)
During his current visit to the Republic of India, the Saudi Space Commission CEO Dr. Mohammed bin Saud Al-Tamimi held several bilateral meetings with government agencies, Indian companies, and leaders of the space sector to discuss ways to enhance (...)
Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan took part in the symposium which took place in the Indian city of Bangalore under the theme Public Digital Infrastructure leading to Innovative, Resilient, and Inclusive Growth and Effective (...)
Minister of Finance Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan has taken part in the symposium which took place in the Indian city of Bangalore under the theme Public Digital Infrastructure leading to Innovative, Resilient, and Inclusive Growth and Effective (...)
Plane maker Boeing plans to cut about 2,000 jobs in finance and human resources this year, as it focuses on engineering and manufacturing.
The move comes as the company puts more of its resources into "products, services and technology (...)
Balkrishna Doshi, one of the Indian subcontinent's most celebrated architects, has died at the age of 95.
Doshi passed away on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from the Pritzker Prize. He was India's first — and to date, only — winner of the (...)
The architectural reference to the Taj Mahal is immediately discernible as you enter the Microsoft office in Noida, northern India.
Bathed in ivory white and punctuated with beautiful arches and "jaali" – perforated lattice screens – the office is (...)
Police in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have arrested an influential Hindu religious leader for allegedly raping two minor schoolgirls.
Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru from the Lingayat community, a dominant Hindu sect in the state, is (...)
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 — (...)
India's Supreme Court has granted interim bail to Mohammed Zubair, a leading fact-checker and journalist who spotlighted the ruling party spokesperson Nupur Sharma's controversial comments against the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
The top court ordered (...)
When it comes to matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and adoption, India has different laws for different communities based on their religion, faith and beliefs.
But since Independence there's been talk of a Uniform Civil Code or UCC, a (...)
India's badminton team on Sunday stunned 14-time champions Indonesia at the men's finals for a historic win at the 2022 Thomas Cup. Sports journalist Susan Ninan reports on the significance of the title for a team that had never made it to the (...)
Two Indian states have issued a health warning over reported cases of hand, foot and mouth (HFMD) disease in a neighboring state.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have asked officials to be cautious after Kerala state reported 80 cases.
The affected (...)
Last week one of India's richest women tweeted an unusual appeal to ruling politicians.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, who heads Biocon, a leading biotechnology firm, urged the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Karnataka to "resolve the growing (...)
In the early hours of 24 March, Filippo Osella flew into India's southern city of Trivandrum from London on a routine research trip to India.
Professor Osella, an anthropologist at the University of Sussex, had been visiting India on work for more (...)
