"People usually apologize after cracking jokes," Indian stand-up comic Munawar Faruqui says in an episode of Bigg Boss, a popular reality TV show.
"But in my case, it's best if I do it in advance."
His humor wasn't missed on the millions of Indians (...)
INDORE — Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor to exchange experiences and cooperation in different fields related (...)
Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Eng. Ahmed Al-Rajhi on Friday led the Kingdom's delegation to the G20 Labor and Employment Ministers' Meeting, held in Indore, India.
Besides the labor and employment ministers of the G20 member (...)
At least 22 people, including three children and 10 women, were killed and 31 others injured when a passenger bus fell off a bridge in Oon police station area of Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. The bus was heading towards Indore
The (...)
At least 35 people have been killed after falling into a well while offering prayers at a temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Fourteen others have been rescued and one person is still missing in the accident that took place in (...)
Balkrishna Doshi, one of the Indian subcontinent's most celebrated architects, has died at the age of 95.
Doshi passed away on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from the Pritzker Prize. He was India's first — and to date, only — winner of the (...)
Police in India say they will prosecute a man who allegedly created an app that put up photos of more than 80 Muslim women for "sale" online last year.
The announcement came after Delhi's Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena granted permission to try (...)
The people who would destroy his home came early in the morning, remembers 72-year-old Shaikh Mohammad Rafiq.
A soft-drink seller in India's Madhya Pradesh state, Rafiq and his sons had had a long night. "It's Ramadan, so our business usually picks (...)
Lata Mangeshkar, the "nightingale of India" who gave her voice to Indian movies for more than 70 years, died Sunday in Mumbai, according to her doctor. She was 92.
"Lata Di died at 8:12 a.m. due to multi-organ failure after over 28 days of COVID-19 (...)
Police in India have arrested a man suspected of creating an app that put up photos of more than 80 Muslim women for "sale" online last year, BBC reported.
The open source app - Sulli Deals - had been hosted on web platform GitHub in July 2021.
The (...)
Renowned Urdu poet Rahat Indori died at a hospital in Indore in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. He had tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday.
A doctor at Sri Aurobindo Hospital said Indori suffered two heart attacks on (...)
Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the largest global jewelry retailer, has opened two new showrooms in India as part of its global expansion plans. The new showrooms were opened at Kumbakonam in Tami Nadu and Chandigarh in Punjab. Malabar Group (...)
Indian authorities announced on Saturday that floods and subsequent landslides in the northeastern Indian state of Assam led to the death of at least 59 people and affecting about 1.3 million others across 20 districts.
The Press Trust of India (...)
Preparing to end India's two-month-long lockdown in its current form, the government's senior-most bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, on Thursday held a meeting with Municipal Commissioners of 13 cities worst-affected by the COVID-19 (...)
India batsman Prithvi Shaw has been handed a back-dated eight-month suspension for a doping violation after ingesting a prohibited substance Terbutaline, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.
The BCCI said Shaw, who made his Test debut (...)
Indian captain Virat Kohli said his team had a battery of world-class bowlers to counter a "fearless" England batting attack in a three-match one-day series starting in Pune Sunday.
India demolished England 4-0 in a preceding five-Test series at (...)
The death toll from India's worst train accident in years rose to 145 on Monday, as rescuers used cranes to lift the twisted metal wreckage to check for more bodies underneath, AP reported.
The passenger train was about midway through a 27-hour (...)
Indian rescuers on Monday called off a search of the mangled carriages of a derailed train after pulling more bodies from the wreckage, taking to at least 146 the number of passengers killed in the disaster.
Sunday's derailment in the northern state (...)
At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India on Sunday, with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police said.
Daljeet Chaudhary, a director (...)
At least 30 people are dead after an Indian passenger
train derailed Sunday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, dpa cited Indian media reports as saying.
The incident - which saw at least 14 carriages derail - took place around 3 am (2130 GMT (...)
At least 90 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an Indian express train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, with the toll set to rise amid a desperate scramble to locate survivors from the mangled wreck, Reuters (...)
NEW DELHI — At least 60 people were killed and 100 injured when several carriages of an Indian express train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, with the toll set to rise amid a desperate scramble to locate survivors from the mangled (...)
Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin claimed seven wickets to lead India's whitewash of New Zealand as the host romped to a 321-run victory on day four of the third and final Test Tuesday.
Ashwin with career-best match figures of 13-140 helped India skittle (...)
Wily off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin backed himself Monday to outfox any batsman in the world after his six wickets in the third and final Test against New Zealand put India in pole position to complete a whitewash.
Ashwin, who is the leading (...)
Skipper Virat Kohli recorded his second double-century in Tests as he and Ajinkya Rahane helped India post a crushing 557 for five declared against New Zealand here Sunday.
The visitors were 28 without loss at stumps on day two of the third and (...)
