India yesterday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a

Maoist rebels yesterday ambushed a paramilitary patrol in India's eastern Chhattisgarh state, killing 11 policemen, regional police said.

A beaming Amit Shah called the BJP's big victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand "the victories of Narendra Modi's leadership."

India's first lunar probe - Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost is still orbiting the moon, NASA scientists have discovered. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

Indian police said yesterday they had found 19 aborted female foetuses dumped in a sewer in the western state of Maharashtra,

News bestseller tells how a poor artist of India married a Swedish tourist, then rode four months on the hippie trail to join her.

The Central government is considering more steps to curb cash transactions even as a few banks have already started imposing charges after limited transactions. The government is now considering imposing a cap on cash holding limit as suggested by the SIT.

The former managing director of a little-known Indian company that claimed to be selling the world's cheapest smartphone has been

An ATM in Delhi spewed dummy 2,000-rupee notes issued by the 'Children Bank of India', prompting an investigation into the

FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.

Scientists have discovered four new species of miniature night frogs small enough to sit on a fingernail in a remote part of India,

At least seven suspected Maoist rebels were killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in the remote forests of central India, an officer

An ally of disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala was yesterday appointed the next leader of Tamil Nadu state, ending a weeks-long

An Indian court sentenced one person to 10 years' imprisonment but acquitted two others yesterday over bomb blasts that ripped

Extravagant Indian weddings in palaces featuring elephants, foreign dance troupes and seven-course meals could become a thing of the past if one politician fed up with the excess gets her way.

India hopes to make history by launching a record 104 satellites from a single rocket today as its famously frugal space agency looks to

India's Supreme Court jailed the anointed next leader of Tamil Nadu for four years for corruption yesterday, heightening the turmoil in a

Three soldiers and a suspected militant were killed in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after an army patrol came

A court in Shillong of India's Meghalaya allows BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed, who is suffering from kidney disease, to take better treatment outside the state.

Dozens of trainee commandos from India's elite jungle warfare unit have gone missing on the eve of their first deployment to a restive