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Police overpowered a young Tibetan exile who set himself on fire outside the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital Friday in solidarity with Tibetans who self-immolated in China recently.
India's central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate to 7.50 percent from 7.25 percent, its 10th hike in just over a year, saying inflation persists at uncomfortable levels and the global environment has changed for the worse.
Somali pirates hijacked an Indonesian-flagged ship off the coast of East Africa then used it to launch a second failed attack, the European Union's anti-piracy task force said Thursday.
India's prime minister caved in to opposition demands Tuesday and agreed to allow a parliamentary investigation into a telecommunications scandal that has reportedly cost the country billions of dollars.
Ninety-one Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh have landed on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands claiming they had been turned back into the sea by the Thai navy, a police officer said Friday.
An Indian court refused bail Thursday for a human rights activist who was sentenced to life in prison on charges of aiding communist rebels, despite an appeal for his freedom from 40 Nobel laureates.
Federal investigators have arrested a Mumbai-based executive for his alleged part in an Indian telecoms industry scandal that has cost the government billions of dollars in lost license fees.
Indian authorities on Friday cleared Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader in a probe into $1.35 million in cash discovered last month at his headquarters in northern India, a news report said.
India's environment ministry has given clearance to South Korean conglomerate Posco to build a $12 billion steel plant in eastern India — but with numerous conditions attached.
A new row has erupted between India and China following Beijing's refusal to stamp visas in passports of residents from the disputed eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
The Indian military Monday cleared for production a fighter jet that will be the first plane flown by its national air force that was designed and built at home.
An Indian court has convicted a human rights activist of aiding communist rebels in eastern India and sentenced him to life in prison, his attorney said Saturday.
Hundreds of survivors of the 1984 toxic gas leak in Bhopal called Monday for visiting President Barack Obama to help extradite the former head of the American company blamed in the world's worst industrial disaster and pursue liability claims on behalf of the victims.
India's main opposition party demanded a parliamentary investigation on Tuesday into the country's Commonwealth Games, which were marred by allegations of corruption, construction delays and cost overruns that deeply embarrassed the rising superpower.
Interpol notified its members on Thursday that India has issued arrest warrants for five Pakistani citizens, including two army officers, for alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an official said.
The Indian government said Saturday it will ask authorities to release hundreds of students and youths detained during months of civil unrest that has left at least 107 people dead in Kashmir and review the massive deployment of security forces there.
Efforts to improve the strained ties between India and Pakistan will fail if Islamabad does not act against terror emanating from its territory, India's external affairs minister warned Friday.
An official says the Indian and U.S. national security advisers have met to discuss counterterrorism, defense cooperation and regional security.
Transportation ground to a halt and businesses were closed in many parts of India on Monday as the main opposition parties led a strike to protest a government-imposed hike in fuel prices.
Investigators recovered the digital flight data recorder Tuesday of the Air India flight that crashed and killed 158 people in southern India over the weekend, police said.
As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India Express plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a tricky hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain. At least eight survived.
As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a precarious hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain.
As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday as it overshot a hilltop runway in southern India while trying to land in the rain.
The prime ministers of India and Pakistan agreed Thursday to resume peace talks between their top diplomats and work toward rebuilding trust shattered by the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militants.
India's upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a historic bill that would reserve one-third of legislative seats for women, despite a boycott by socialist lawmakers.
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