A loud noise shook Ajay Ghosh awake at his home in the southern Indian state of Kerala in the early hours of Tuesday.
At first, the salesman, who lives in Wayanad district's Mundakkai village, did not quite understand what caused the sound.
But when (...)
At least 40 Indians are among 49 people killed in a fire at a residential building in the Kuwaiti city of Mangaf, India's foreign ministry has said.
The fire broke out on Wednesday in a building where dozens of workers stayed.
Video shared on social (...)
Thousands of videos allegedly showing an Indian MP sexually abusing women have circulated in the southern state of Karnataka, sparking outrage.
Police are investigating allegations against Prajwal Revanna who is accused of assaulting several (...)
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' (...)
In July 2022, Twitter took the Indian government to court over its orders to block certain accounts and tweets. Several free speech experts hailed it as a significant lawsuit.
It was the first instance of a social media company suing the government (...)
Leaders of India's main political parties have been campaigning extensively in the southern state of Karnataka which goes to the polls on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led an intense campaign, addressing 17 public rallies and five (...)
Finance ministers of the world's largest economies have failed to agree on a closing statement following a summit in India, after China refused to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Beijing declined to accept parts of a G20 statement that (...)
Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan has participated in the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable, which was held in Bengaluru, India, to discuss the issue of international sovereign debts as part of the first meeting of finance ministers (...)
Two US F-35 fighter jets took part in a demonstration at the Aero India air show in Bengaluru on Monday, marking the first time the latest American fighters have landed on Indian soil. In a symbolic showdown between superpowers, Russia's latest (...)
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 (...)
The hijab, according to a landmark Indian court ruling on Tuesday, has "something to do with culture but certainly not with religion".
A three-judge bench in the southern state of Karnataka upheld a government ban on the headscarf in schools and (...)
A high court in India's Karnataka state has ruled that the hijab is not "essential" to Islam in a landmark case that could have implications across the country.
The court also upheld a state government order that had banned headscarves in (...)
Is it selfish to bring your pet along when you are being evacuated from a war zone?
Arya Aldrin, a 20-year-old medical student who just fled Ukraine with her Siberian husky in tow, doesn't think so: "It would have been more selfish to leave my dog (...)
An Indian actor has been arrested for tweeting against one of the judges hearing pleas against a ban on Muslim girls wearing hijabs in schools.
Chetan Kumar was arrested in the southern state of Karnataka after he criticized Justice Krishna (...)
How do you sit in a classroom with people who shouted slogans against your right to wear a hijab?
That's the question troubling Saima, whose name has been changed on request. Last week, the 20-year-old was one of several hijab-clad Muslim women who (...)
Muskaan Khan has inadvertently become the face of resistance for young Indian Muslim women amid an escalating row over hijabs or headscarves.
In a video that has gone viral, the 19-year-old student can be seen entering her college as a mob of men (...)
An Indian state has shut high schools and colleges for three days after a row over the hijab that has gained international attention after Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai weighed in.
The government of Karnataka state in southern India took the (...)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has spoken out in support of six Indian students fighting for their right to wear the hijab in class.
The teens have been protesting in Karnataka state for weeks, drawing attention to a college's ban on (...)
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the Alaska Peninsula region on Monday, Reuters quoted the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre as saying.
The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said there was no tsunami warning after the quake. The quake, (...)
India reported 29,689 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday, for the lowest daily rise since March 17, according to a Reuters tally.
India's total of 31.44 million infections now ranks second only to the (...)
India reported on Thursday 41,383 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, while daily deaths rose by 507, health ministry data showed, according to Reuters.
The country's tally of infections now stands at 31.26 million, with the death toll (...)
India on Wednesday reported 43,733 new cases in the last 24 hours, data from health ministry showed, with active cases at 459,920, Reuters reported.
The South Asian nation's total infections now stand at 30,663,665, while death toll rise by 930 to (...)
India reported on Wednesday 45,951 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed, Reuters reported.
India's coronavirus-related deaths rose by 817 overnight.
The South Asian country's total COVID-19 case load (...)
India reported 37,566 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Tuesday, taking the South Asian nation's tally to 30.31 million, with a death toll of 397,637, Reuters reported.
Coronavirus-related deaths rose by (...)
India reported on Monday 46,148 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed, according to Reuters.
India's coronavirus-related deaths rose by 979 overnight. The South Asian country's total COVID-19 case load (...)