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 (...)
A man has been charged with the rape and murder of a resident doctor during a night shift in India's eastern city of Kolkata, a crime that ignited nationwide protests about the country's pervasive problem with gender violence.
In a charge sheet seen (...)
Last week, authorities in the Indian city of Kolkata announced plans to eliminate trams entirely, retaining only a small heritage loop. In response, a group of activists is fighting to ensure that trams remain a vital mode of transport rather than (...)
The Indian state of West Bengal has agreed to remove the police chief of its capital, Kolkata, following a meeting with doctors protesting the rape and murder of their colleague.
Two other senior officials - the director of medical education and the (...)
Junior doctors in Kolkata are defying a court order to continue protests against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in the city.
The discovery of the body of the 31-year-old woman on 9 August sparked nationwide outrage (...)
India's top court has said the recent rape and murder of a trainee doctor in West Bengal state has "shocked the conscience of the nation" and criticized authorities for their handling of the investigation.
The 31-year-old woman's body was found (...)
Hundreds of protesters have gathered at a railway station in the western state of Maharashtra to protest against the alleged sexual assault of two children.
The girls were allegedly abused last week when they went to use the toilet in their nursery (...)
Protests have intensified in India after a mob vandalized a hospital where a female trainee doctor was raped and murdered in West Bengal state.
The hospital was attacked on Wednesday during the massive Reclaim the Night march held in Kolkata city to (...)
Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal state marched through the streets on Wednesday night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week.
The Reclaim the Night march was the culmination (...)
Early on Friday morning, a 31-year-old female trainee doctor retired to sleep in a seminar hall after a grueling day at one of India's oldest hospitals.
It was the last time she was seen alive.
The next morning, her colleagues discovered her (...)
At least 36 people have died in India and Bangladesh after Tropical Cyclone Remal lashed the area with torrential rain and heavy winds, according to local officials.
At least seven were killed in cyclone-related incidents in the eastern Indian state (...)
Shah Rukh Khan's manager has said India's "King of Bollywood" is recovering well after reports he was hospitalized with heatstroke, as parts of the country swelter during a weeks-long general election.
The 58-year-old superstar was admitted for (...)
"For Indians, spices are like paints in a paint box", says Indian actor-turned-food writer Madhur Jaffrey. "We get different shades from the same spice by doing something to the spice."
In other words, you can roast the spices or grind them into (...)
Nine hours and 30 minutes ahead of New York. Five hours and 30 minutes ahead of London. Three hours and 30 minutes behind Tokyo.
For more than a century, India's clocks have officially fallen short of the full hour in calculating any time difference (...)
When Karan Shah, 32, goes to vote in the western state of Gujarat, he and his 59-year-old mother will be armed with water bottles and fruit to beat the heat. To escape long queues, they plan to reach the polling station early in the morning.
Shah (...)
The Indian Navy's rescue of a commercial ship from pirates off Somalia's coast last weekend shows how Delhi's military has developed special forces capabilities on par with some of the world's best, analysts say.
The navy rescued 17 crew members of (...)
Indian PM Narendra Modi is on his first visit to the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley since revoking the region's semi-autonomous status in 2019.
Modi will address a rally in Srinagar, just weeks before India's general election dates are (...)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to the Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya.
The temple replaces a 16th-century mosque razed by Hindu mobs in 1992. The demolition had sparked nationwide riots in which (...)
كل 11 عاماً تقريباً، تمر الشمس بما يعرف ب«الحد الأقصى للطاقة الشمسية»، عندما تظهر العديد من البقع الداكنة الغريبة على سطحها تسمى البقع الشمسية، وهذه البقع التي يمكن أن تتجمع معاً وتشكل ما يشبه الأرخبيل، ناتجة عن تغيرات هائلة في المجال المغناطيسي (...)
A thick layer of toxic foam has once again coated parts of a sacred river near New Delhi as the Indian capital battles an acrid and noxious smog that has settled across the city.
The white froth, a mixture of sewage and industrial waste, has formed (...)
The last time three-year-old Anirudh was captured on video, he lay listlessly on a hospital bed with wires attached to his hands.
His mother is seen desperately trying to feed him, talking about the games he can play once he recovers.
Three days (...)
RIYADH — As the AFC Champions League group stage draw unfolds, a spellbinding alliance has set hearts racing in both the football and culinary realms.
The renowned Al-Hilal, led by the Brazilian maestro Neymar, finds itself sharing a group with (...)
The working sessions of the second ministerial meeting on combating corruption in the G20 countries concluded here Saturday, emphasizing the need for cooperation to attain this goal.
The Kingdom participated with a delegation headed by President of (...)
A 44 foot-long Japanese style handscroll painted by a famous Indian blind artist nearly 100 years ago has resurfaced and gone on public display for the first time in the city of his birth, Kolkata.
Benodebehari Mukherjee, born in 1904, was blind in (...)
Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake.
"Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side," the 32-year-old (...)
