Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.
They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated (...)
India has accelerated efforts to evacuate more than a million people along its northeast coastline as a cyclone intensifies ahead of landfall on Friday, with thousand of villagers piling household possessions on to trucks before fleeing their (...)
Awwal 29, 1432 H/March 4, 2011, SPA -- Indian police detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory, an official said Friday.
According to AP, after learning they were laid off, about a (...)
India on Wednesday successfully tested a short-range, nuclear-capable missile with a range of 220 miles (350 kilometers), an official said.
The army twice fired the surface-to-surface missile Prithvi II from a range in Chandipur in the eastern (...)
Suspected Maoist rebels blew up a bus carrying police officers, killing seven of them in eastern India on Sunday as the country's home minister repeated his offer to hold peace talks with the group, the Associated Press reported.
Another 13 (...)
More than 12 people are feared dead and over 200 injured after a tornado hit the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials say.
They say the tornado lasted about one hour and hit 11 villages in the Rajkanika area of the state with winds of about (...)
Indian police fatally shot two
people in eastern India as they tried to disperse a mob
attacking churches, bringing the death toll in recent
violent Hindu-Christian clashes to at least 19, police said
Sunday.
The clash occurred late Saturday in (...)
Protesters opposing the construction of a South Korean steel plant in eastern India
briefly abducted three South Koreans and an Indian who
worked for the company, police said Saturday.
South Korean steel major POSCO is setting up a US$12
billion (...)
A scorching heat wave has
killed at least 113 people in eastern and southern India,
with monsoon rains delayed across most of the country,
officials and news reports said Saturday.
Temperatures touched 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit)
in (...)
India on Sunday tested a nuclear-capable ship-launched missile off its eastern coast, an official said.
The "Dhanush" missile, capable of carrying both conventional
and nuclear warheads, was launched from an Indian navy ship
in the Bay of Bengal, (...)