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 (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticized the "cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats" in a deepening diplomatic row with Canada.
Both countries expelled each other's top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of (...)
At least 36 people have died and several have been injured after a bus fell into a gorge in India's northern state of Uttarakhand.
Officials said 44 people were on board when the driver lost control and the bus fell into a 50m-deep ditch in (...)
Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights and one of the most important events in the Hindu calendar.
The annual festival tends to fall between October and November, but the exact date varies each year as the Hindu calendar (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned Indians against an emerging online fraud known as "digital arrest".
Some people have reportedly been scammed out of millions of rupees by fraudsters, who contact their victims via video call posing as (...)
For years, Western critics have dismissed Brics as a relatively inconsequential entity.
But this past week, at its annual summit in Russia, the group triumphantly showcased just how far it has come.
Top leaders from 36 countries, as well as the UN (...)
Authorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in the eastern states of Odisha (formerly Orissa) and West Bengal.
Thousands of relief workers have been deployed to minimize damage from Cyclone (...)
The race between two of the world's richest men, Elon Musk and Mukesh Ambani, is intensifying as they prepare to face off in India's satellite broadband market.
After India's government announced last week that satellite spectrum for broadband would (...)
India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India's top diplomat has said.
Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on "disengagement and resolution of (...)
A dramatic and unprecedented surge in hoax bomb threats targeting Indian airlines is wreaking havoc on flight schedules, diverting planes and causing widespread disruptions.
A video posted on social media last week showed passengers draped in (...)
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Friday that the last remaining Indian diplomats in Canada have been put "on notice" that the country will not tolerate any further criminal activity on its territory.
This warning comes in the wake (...)
Dr. Hisham Aljadhey, Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), led Saudi Arabia's delegation at the 19th Annual Meeting of the International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) held in New Delhi, India, from (...)
The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer for allegedly directing a foiled plot to assassinate an American citizen who advocates for Khalistan - an independent Sikh state carved out of India.
The US Attorney's Office for the (...)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused India of making a "massive mistake" that Canada could not ignore if Delhi was behind the death of a Sikh separatist leader last year on Canadian soil.
Trudeau made the comments two days after Canadian (...)
A Bangladeshi court has ordered an arrest warrant for former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was ousted by mass protests.
Hasina is wanted by Bangladesh's International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) for her alleged (...)
On Monday, Canadian police made a sensational claim.
They alleged at a press conference that agents of the Indian government were using "organized crime groups like the Bishnoi group" to target leaders of the pro-Khalistan movement, which calls for (...)
At least 10 Indian flights have received hoax bomb threats over the past 48 hours, leading to long delays and diversions. On Tuesday, Singapore's Air Force sent two fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane away from populated areas (...)
