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 (...)
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 (...)
Since 1994, the United Nations (UN) has brought together representatives from nearly 200 countries to negotiate collective action on reducing global emissions. This annual convening, known as the Conference of the Parties or COP, inevitably attracts (...)
Beneath dramatic snow-capped mountains in Indian-administered Kashmir lies the town of Pampore.
As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron — a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold.
Derived from the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi club Al-Hilal aims to start their Asian campaign on a positive note when they face Uzbekistan's Navbahor as part of the first round of the 2023-2024 AFC Champions League.
The match is set to take place on Monday at the King Fahd (...)
At least 12 people died and nearly 25 were injured in a bus crash in India's southwestern state of Maharashtra on Saturday, Xinhua reported.
The road mishap occurred in the Raigad district of the state when the government-owned bus fell into a (...)
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 (...)
Over the years rock carvings of a previously unknown civilization have been found in India's western state of Maharashtra. Now, a cave in the same region is promising to shed more light on the creators of these prehistoric artworks and their (...)
An Indian teen weightlifter battled muscle cramps to break two records and win gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga's win gave India its fifth medal and second gold at the Birmingham Games.
"It seems I'm in a different world now (...)
On Wednesday, 90-year-old Reena Varma finally went back to the house in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city that she had dreamed about for 75 years.
Ms Varma, who had traveled to Pakistan from the western Indian city of Pune, was showered with rose petals as (...)
أنقذت فرقة الإطفاء في بوني قطة عالقة فوق برج هاتف محمول يبلغ ارتفاعه 30 قدما في منطقة بوني غربي الهند.
وفي فيديو تداولته مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في الهند يظهر رجل وهو يتسلق برجا للاتصالات، محاولا إنقاذ القطة العالقة في أعلى برج خاص بأجهزة الاتصالات (...)
A court in India has sentenced 38 people to death for their role in a series of bomb blasts in 2008 in the western state of Gujarat.
Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds injured in the bombings, which took place in Ahmedabad, the commercial (...)
Veteran industrialist Rahul Bajaj, synonymous with Bajaj Auto, died Saturday in Pune. He was 83. A statement from the Bajaj Group said that the industrialist died in the "presence of his closest family members".
Bajaj, who had pneumonia and also a (...)
Earlier this year, Raja and Priti Narasimhan kicked off a road trip across India armed with one message: stop spitting in public. The couple carried a loudspeaker and blared their message from inside a car covered in anti-spitting slogans.
If you (...)
It's a frantic time at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in the western city of Pune, India's oldest genome sequencing facility, reports BBC News.
As the country tries to contain the spread of the Omicron variant, laboratories like the NIV (...)
The world's largest vaccine maker will halve the production of its Covid-19 vaccine because it has no fresh orders, BBC reported quoting its top-ranking executive.
India's Serum Institute is sitting on a stockpile of half a billion doses of (...)
The contours of his face changed. With the eyebrows curled into wrinkles, he looked at me with squinted eyes. "Please don't repeat in front of anyone else what you just told me."
This was the reaction of one of my colleagues to my admission that I (...)
India's Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is returning back to the list of most desired tourist destinations in the country, especially for the domestic travel enthusiasts as a result of sincere efforts being made by the Indian federal government to bring in (...)
The eldest son of an Indian leader passed away after suffering from COVID-19 on Thursday morning.
Ashish, the 34-year-old eldest son of Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s general secretary Sitaram Yechury, was in an ICU in Gurgaon near Delhi for (...)
Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX program on Wednesday, a joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and WHO Ghana said.
The shipment, consisting of 600,000 doses of the (...)
في 16 يناير 2021، أطلق دولة رئيس وزراء الهند السيد ناريندرا مودي أكبر برنامج تطعيم ضد كوفيد -19 في البلاد الذي يهدف إلى تلقيح 300 مليون شخص بحلول شهر أغسطس، 2021. وسبق أن تلقى بالفعل أكثر من مليون شخص الجرعة الأولى في غضون أسبوع من إطلاقه.
وعلى مدى (...)
A fire that broke out at a facility of the world's biggest vaccine maker that killed five people would not affect vaccine production, the head of the company said on Thursday.
The blaze at the Serum Institute of India (SII) in the western city of (...)
India is emerging as the savior in the battle against coronavirus as it officially began supplying locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines to its neighboring and key partner countries.
On Wednesday, a consignment containing 100,000 doses of Covishield (...)
India reported a record daily rise of 95,735 coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking its total to 4.4 million cases, according to the country's health ministry figures.
The ministry also reported 1,172 deaths in the past 24 hours, accounting for (...)
