An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home — 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video. Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years "as a living corpse", trapped (...)
Pollution has once again soared to hazardous levels in Delhi, with a top expert warning that India's toxic air will have a bigger impact on public health than the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Wednesday, the air quality was 35 times over the safe limit set (...)
Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates.
With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think the country would be quiet about having more children. But guess what? The chatter has (...)
India's top court is hearing a number of petitions challenging a decades-old law that preserves the character and identity of religious places as they existed at the time of the country's independence in 1947.
The law, introduced in 1991, prohibits (...)
A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbors who said they would not allow them to live there because of their religion.
Hindu residents of the posh TDI City – an upscale residential bloc in (...)
The northeastern Indian state of Assam has banned the consumption of beef in public places including restaurants and events.
This is an expansion to an earlier rule that restricted the sale of beef near certain religious places like temples, Chief (...)
A war of words between Bangladesh and neighbor India is threatening to spiral out of control following protests and counter-protests over the alleged ill-treatment of Hindu minorities in the country.
Diplomatic relations between the neighbors and (...)
An Indian taxi aggregator service has apologized after a customer said she was robbed at gunpoint by one of its drivers near the capital, Delhi.
The 30-year-old woman said she was traveling in a BluSmart taxi with her six-year-old son on Saturday (...)
Police in India say they have reached out for information to Elon Musk's Starlink after they allegedly found drug smugglers using its satellite internet device to navigate Indian waters and reach the country's shore.
Starlink claims to provide (...)
More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail and ordered "immediate release" of Mohammed Zubair from prison, the leading Indian fact-checker and journalist is once again back in court.
On Tuesday, the Allahabad high court briefly heard (...)
India's airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country's deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament.
This was nearly 10 times more than the threats received in 2023, Murlidhar Mohol said.
More (...)
Saurabh Bhasin loved Delhi, the city where he was born.
Growing up, he longed for the winter months which offered a brief escape from the Indian capital's long and harsh summers.
But over the years, his yearning for winters turned into fear. Air (...)
A proposal to amend a decades-old law that governs properties worth millions of dollars donated as endowments by Indian Muslims over centuries has triggered protests in the country.
The endowment properties, or waqf, which include mosques, (...)
The arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh has triggered a fresh war of words with neighbor India over the condition of minorities in the country.
Chinmoy Krishna Das, a spokesperson of a Bangladesh-based Hindu organization, was arrested on sedition (...)
Two days after deadly violence in Sambhal left four people dead and many others injured, the city in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh remains gripped by tension.
The violence broke out on Sunday during a court-ordered survey of the (...)
In October, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) sent a chartered flight carrying Indian nationals back home, marking a growing trend in deportations to India.
This was no ordinary flight – it was one of muliple large-scale "removal flights" (...)
Winter has come to Delhi and with it, a familiar sense of gloom. The sky here is grey and there is a thick, visible blanket of smog.
If you stay outdoors for more than a few minutes, you can almost taste ash. You will feel breathless within minutes (...)
For a harrowing week in August, Ruchika Tandon, a 44-year-old neurologist at one of India's top hospitals, was ensnared in what felt like a high-stakes federal crime investigation.
Yet, it was an elaborate scam — a web of deceit spun by scammers who (...)
A tragic fire at a hospital in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state has claimed the lives of at least 10 infants.
The fire broke out late Friday in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Jhansi Medical College, located in the city of (...)
All primary schools in Delhi will close due to worsening air pollution, officials have announced.
In a post on X, the Indian capital's chief minister, Atishi Marlena Singh, said classes will move online until further notice due to a thick smog that (...)
A knife attack on a doctor in the southern Indian city of Chennai has raised fresh concerns about the safety of medical professionals in the country.
Police say that Balaji Jaganathan, an oncologist at a government hospital, was stabbed several (...)
NEW DELHI — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Indian counterpart Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar co-chaired the second meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Political, Security, Social, and Cultural Cooperation in New (...)
People in India's capital Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog as the air quality deteriorated to severe levels in the city.
Delhi and its neighboring cities are experiencing pollution levels that are at least 30-35 times the safe limit (...)
Record-breaking levels of thick, toxic smog that have shrouded eastern Pakistan and northern India since last month can be seen in striking satellite imagery.
A huge cloud of gray smog blankets Pakistan's Punjab province and stretches out east into (...)
High in the mist-shrouded Himalayas, a winding mountain road opens to a clearing in the pine forested valley, revealing rows of uniform Tibetan-style houses, each topped with a Chinese flag.
Construction is booming in this remote place. Piles of (...)
