Parents of school students who were on the boat that capsized in a lake in India's Gujarat state have alleged that their children were "not given life jackets".
Twelve pupils, aged between seven and 12 years, and two teachers, drowned in the (...)
Ila Popat has been living in India for more than five decades.
She got married here, had children, obtained an Indian driving license and even a voter identity card.
But she still can't travel abroad as an Indian because she doesn't have a passport, (...)
"Only when I met her, did I realise that I had the gun but no bullets to fire it."
This is how Bhavna Narkar, a 28-year-old Dalit woman activist, described her mentor, Manjula Pradeep, 52, according to a BBC report.
Ms Narkar is one of dozens of (...)
In its fifth month of battling COVID-19, there have been more than 1.1 million cases and 27,503 deaths in India. The country ranks third globally in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Correspondingly, in the United states, which tops the list, (...)
The Heavy Engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro ensured dispatch of critical Reactors, Coke drums and Sub-assemblies of Nuclear Fusion reactor for their global clients during the lockdown period in India from beginning of last week of March.
During (...)
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi filed his papers on Thursday to run for parliament from a southern constituency, aiming to strengthen his Congress party's prospects in a region where the ruling Hindu nationalists have a limited (...)
A multimillion-dollar racket that used fake Indian call centers to trick US citizens into paying bogus tax bills may be the tip of the iceberg, with police warning similar scams could be operating across the country.
School leavers or college (...)
NEW DELHI — Beijing has been pushing India to accelerate work on a multi-billion dollar rail link from New Delhi to Chennai ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to China this week, as the Asian giants put economic ties before regional (...)
India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi greets supporters at the party headquarters in Gandhinagar, in the western state of Gujarat, Friday. Modi will be India's next prime minister, winning the most decisive election victory the (...)
Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, center, the prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), gestures to his supporters after casting his vote at a polling station during the seventh phase of India's general (...)
Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), waves to his supporters in Vadodara, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. — Reuters
NEW DELHI — Hindu nationalist Narendra (...)
Joyalukkas, Dubai-based, world's No. 1 jeweler, opened recently its first two showrooms in the state of Gujarat. The two new showrooms are located in the cities of Vadodara and Ahmedabad and mark Joyalukkas' entry into this dynamic state. Newly (...)
At least seven people died and about 20 were
still missing after two multi-storey buildings collapsed in the west Indian city of Vadodara early Wednesday, a local official and media said.
Fourteen people were rescued alive from the rubble, official (...)
MUMBAI — The High Court here Monday sentenced four people to life imprisonment while acquitting another five in the 2002 Best Bakery carnage in which 14 people were killed in Vadodara in Gujarat during communal frenzy.
A division bench of Justices (...)
Sabic Innovative Plastics has started up a line making multiwall polycarbonate sheet at its plant in Vadodara, India.
The new line is needed to meet rising consumer demand in the region for Lexan Thermoclear-brand multiwall PC sheet for use in (...)
In a raid by the special operations group (SOG) at a Vadodara residence, officials found an unexpected document amongst other fake papers. As the officials were raiding the house of one Premchandra Khandelwal after a tip-off, they came across a (...)
DUBAI: Come June 19, 2011, Zee Enterprises Entertainment Ltd. (ZEEL), India's leading media conglomerate, will unveil a new brand identity that will feature the network's new logo, packaging and positioning.
Through its strong presence worldwide, (...)
VADODARA, India: Gautam Gambhir hit a second successive century as India crushed New Zealand by nine wickets in the third One-Day International Saturday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.
The stand-in skipper hammered 16 fours in his (...)
in captain Gautam Gambhir cracked an unbeaten 138 off 116 balls to lift the hosts to an eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the second One-Day International Wednesday.
The left-hander's eighth one-day century enabled India to surpass New Zealand's (...)
NAGPUR, India: Gautam Gambhir will captain India against New Zealand in the first two One-Day Internationals in the absence of injured regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
“M.S. Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan (...)
India's key batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are injury doubts for the fourth one-day international against Australia here Monday.
Sehwag was struck on his left foot by a Peter Siddle yorker while Gambhir was hit below the ear by a pull (...)
World champion Australia said Thursday it was struggling to focus on the ongoing one-day series in India because the team had been decimated by a string of injuries to key players.
With the seven-match series tied at 1-1, the injury-plagued (...)
On the morning after their match against Trinidad and Tobago in the Champions League, Somerset's star batsman Marcus Trescothick packed up and left for home. The lingering hope that the winner of the Professional Cricketers Association Player of the (...)
