The Indian government has sought a detailed report from Tamil Nadu state following media reports that Apple supplier Foxconn was allegedly rejecting married women for iPhone assembly jobs.
A Reuters investigation alleged that Foxconn had excluded (...)
Nine hours and 30 minutes ahead of New York. Five hours and 30 minutes ahead of London. Three hours and 30 minutes behind Tokyo.
For more than a century, India's clocks have officially fallen short of the full hour in calculating any time difference (...)
Last month, Yale University issued a formal apology for the links its early leaders and benefactors had with slavery.
Since then, one name that has come under intense scrutiny in India is that of Elihu Yale, the man after whom the Ivy League (...)
Thousands of villagers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are fighting a proposal to expand a port owned by billionaire Gautam Adani, one of the world's richest men.
The villagers, most of whom make a living through fishing, say the port (...)
A cyclone which barrelled through India's southern coast earlier this week has left Chennai city flooded and struggling to return to normal.
Authorities are trying to clear rainwater from homes and streets in the city's suburbs.
Some residents say (...)
Heavy rains and strong winds are battering India's southern Andhra Pradesh state as a severe cyclonic storm makes landfall.
Nine people, including a child, have died in Andhra Pradesh and neighbouring Tamil Nadu state in rain-related (...)
Heavy rains and strong winds from a severe cyclonic storm have been battering India's southern coast with reports that several people have died.
Thousands of people living in low lying areas have been evacuated in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra (...)
Affan, seven, and Erhan, five, have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) — a rare genetic disorder that causes muscle deterioration and affects breathing. Physiotherapy appointments alone cost the family 40,000 rupees ($480; £395) a month, and their sons (...)
A Pakistani cricket commentator who abruptly left India earlier this week has denied that she was asked to leave the country.
Zainab Abbas, who was covering the Cricket World Cup, left on Monday after a backlash over her old social media posts that (...)
A Pakistani presenter covering the Cricket World Cup in India has left the country after a backlash over alleged "derogatory" posts on social media.
Zainab Abbas was part of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) digital team covering the (...)
The high court in India's Tamil Nadu state has upheld the convictions of hundreds of government officials for atrocities against tribals, including rapes of 18 women, three decades ago.
The convicts include policemen and officials from the forest (...)
أكد رئيس الوزراء الهندي ناريندرا مودي أن بلاده تسعى من خلال رئاستها لمجموعة العشرين هذا العام (2023)، إلى تحقيق النمو، والتحرك الجماعي نحو مستقبل مشترك، والتحول من النظرة التي تركز على الناتج المحلي الإجمالي للعالم إلى نظرة تتمحور حول الإنسان.
ونوّه (...)
Nurses and midwives are vital for India's healthcare system, but it faces challenges due to high demand and limited resources.
Kathija Bibi, a recently retired nurse who received a government award for overseeing more than 10,000 successful (...)
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 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 (...)
One of India's pre-eminent art and cultural institutions, Kalakshetra, has been embroiled in an ugly row over allegations of sexual harassment against a faculty member and three repertory artists who work as substitute teachers at the prestigious (...)
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 (...)
Celebrated Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam's new film Ponniyin Selvan:1, a Tamil-language epic period drama, has taken the box office by storm.
Ponniyin Selvan, based on one of India's greatest emperors, is widely considered by many to be the finest (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 getting fatter, according to a new government survey, and experts are warning about a health emergency unless the growing obesity problem is tackled on a war footing.
Once considered a problem of the affluent West, obesity has been (...)
