India is home to 1.4 billion people but around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report estimates.
The country's consuming class, effectively the potential market for start-ups or business owners, is only (...)
"I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts — that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar.
Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was (...)
A 22-member Bangladeshi delegation of political leaders, civil society activists, academics and journalists has begun a 10-day visit to China.
They will be having talks with Chinese government officials and senior members of the ruling Communist (...)
Authorities in the southern Indian state of Telangana are racing against time to save eight construction workers trapped inside a tunnel for more than 72 hours.
Around 50 workers had been working inside the 43km (26.7-mile)-long tunnel, located in (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Attorney General Sheikh Saud Al-Muajab received Attorney General of India R. Venkataramani and his accompanying delegation at the Public Prosecution headquarters in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Al-Muajab emphasized the (...)
Rescuers have ended a 44-day search operation after they found the bodies of five men who were trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India's north-eastern state of Assam.
DNA tests will be conducted to identify the men as the bodies are in a (...)
Two years after ChatGPT took the world by storm, China's DeepSeek has sent ripples through the tech industry by collapsing the cost of developing generative artificial intelligence applications.
But as the global race for AI supremacy heats up, (...)
US President Donald Trump doubled down on his extraordinary push for more balanced trade, ordering on Thursday that agencies should investigate plans for new reciprocal tariffs that could boost America's revenue — but could also ignite a global (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed a "mega partnership" between the US and India, as he and US leader Donald Trump wrapped up a meeting in which they announced a deal for Delhi to import more US oil and gas in an effort to shrink the (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
India and France plan to work together on developing small modular nuclear reactors, India's foreign ministry said after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country.
Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized the importance of (...)
Lulu Retail, the leading hypermarket chain in the Middle East, is set to expand its presence in Saudi Arabia with the grand opening of its latest express store in Madinah. This strategic expansion aligns with Lulu's commitment to providing (...)
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington and meets President Donald Trump later this week, there will be some warm hugs and shared laughs. But that will not be all.
Trump and Modi have developed a strong personal rapport over the (...)
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to "crimes against humanity", the UN has said.
UN human rights investigators accused (...)
Neha Satpute and Akshay Pise felt ready to welcome their first child.
Having worked in the US for more than a decade, the Indian couple who are engineers on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, expected their son — due on 26 February — to be born (...)
Indian security forces have killed 31 suspected Maoist rebels in the forests of Chhattisgarh state.
Two Indian commandos were also killed in the battle, and two other security force members were wounded, police said.
Chhattisgarh has seen a (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced at the fourth edition of the LEAP 2025 Technology Conference that as many as 685 exceptional talents and researchers in the technology sector have obtained Premium (...)
British pop star Ed Sheeran was stopped from busking in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru on Sunday, with police saying he didn't have the necessary permissions.
A video showing a local police officer unplugging Sheeran's microphone on (...)
تقود آسيا التحول العالمي نحو المدفوعات الرقمية، وهو الأمر الذي يلاحظه المسافرون الدوليون بشكل متكرر، حيث تختفي النقود بسرعة في المعاملات الاستهلاكية في مختلف أنحاء القارة الآسيوية، لتحل محلها رموز الاستجابة السريعة وغيرها من التقنيات المالية القائمة (...)
Although the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí never visited India, his artworks are set to be displayed in the country for the first time.
Starting Friday, an exhibition in the capital Delhi will showcase an expansive collection of more than 200 of (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the US next week and meet President Donald Trump, the White House says.
Other reports say Modi will attend a dinner hosted by the US president on the two-day trip. The dates of the official working (...)
India's Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has told parliament the government is working with the US to ensure Indian citizens are not mistreated while being deported.
His statement came a day after a US military flight brought back 104 Indians accused (...)
Thousands of people have attended events in Waitangi in northern New Zealand, to celebrate the country's national day.
Waitangi Day marks the first signing of New Zealand's founding document: The Treaty of Waitangi or Te Tiriti o Waitangi in (...)
India's biggest news organizations are seeking to join a lawsuit against OpenAI, the US startup behind ChatGPT, for alleged unauthorised use of their content.
The news organizations include some of India's oldest publications like The Indian (...)
Protesters in Bangladesh have vandalized and set fire to the former family home of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as well as those of other members of her party.
The unrest was sparked by news that Hasina would address the country via social (...)
