Forty years ago, an Indian city became the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
On the night of 2 December, 1984, a poisonous gas leaked from Union Carbide India's pesticide plant in Bhopal, enveloping the central Indian city in a (...)
At least 35 people have been killed after falling into a well while offering prayers at a temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Fourteen others have been rescued and one person is still missing in the accident that took place in (...)
A health official is being investigated for vaccinating 30 students with a single syringe in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
The incident took place in a school in Sagar district where children were being given Covid-19 vaccines.
India's (...)
The people who would destroy his home came early in the morning, remembers 72-year-old Shaikh Mohammad Rafiq.
A soft-drink seller in India's Madhya Pradesh state, Rafiq and his sons had had a long night. "It's Ramadan, so our business usually picks (...)
Famous Urdu fictional writer Naeem Kausar has been chosen to get the prestigious Muzaffar Hanfi Aalami Urdu Award for 2022, it was announced recently.
The award will be given to the winner at an event planned on March 31 in the writer's home town of (...)
Police in India have arrested a man suspected of creating an app that put up photos of more than 80 Muslim women for "sale" online last year, BBC reported.
The open source app - Sulli Deals - had been hosted on web platform GitHub in July 2021.
The (...)
At least four infants died when a fire broke out in the neonatal ward of a hospital in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Monday night, prompting the government to order a high-level probe into the incident.
Firefighters were able to save 36 (...)
A Hindu ascetic accused of plotting a bomb attack on Muslims in India defeated an opposition strongman by a big margin on Thursday as her ruling Hindu nationalist party won a massive victory in the country's general election.
Pragya Thakur, (...)
Imrat Namdev and her younger sister Pushpa Namdev were neighbours in Chhatarpur district, in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand. Both relied on the same well for water and, according to police, frequently quarreled over how much the other (...)
A court on Monday found the Indian unit of U.S. chemicals firm Union Carbide and seven Indian employees guilty of negligence over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands of people in 1984.
Union Carbide plant in the (...)
Even before the dust could settle on the storm created by expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh's praise of Pakistan founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, former chief of RSS K. S. Sudarshan raised another on Tuesday when he said in Indore that Jinnah was “a (...)
A scattered strike over the transfer of forest land to a Hindu shrine turned violent in central India Thursday, with two people killed and dozens injured in religious clashes, police said.
Strike supporters shut down transport and businesses in (...)
Lightning killed 11 people and injured eight in the past 24 hours in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, hit by unseasonal rain and hailstorms, officials said on Friday.
The latest deaths, including a 10-year-old girl, brought the death (...)
A truck crowded with religious followers skidded off a road and overturned as it rounded a bend in central India on Saturday, killing at least 22 people, police said.
"So far 22 bodies have been recovered and the injured have been taken to (...)
