'Modi, only Modi, is reason for victories

A beaming Amit Shah called the BJP's big victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand "the victories of Narendra Modi's leadership."
11 March 2017

India test-fires BrahMos missile

India yesterday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a
11 March 2017

Maoist rebels kill 11 cops in Indian state

Maoist rebels yesterday ambushed a paramilitary patrol in India's eastern Chhattisgarh state, killing 11 policemen, regional police said.
11 March 2017

NASA finds India's lost lunar rover after 8 years

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.
11 March 2017

19 aborted female foetuses found in India

Indian police said yesterday they had found 19 aborted female foetuses dumped in a sewer in the western state of Maharashtra,
6 March 2017

Man who cycled from India to Europe for love

News bestseller tells how a poor artist of India married a Swedish tourist, then rode four months on the hippie trail to join her.
5 March 2017

India plans to clamp more curbs on cash

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.
4 March 2017

World's cheapest smartphone boss held

The former managing director of a little-known Indian company that claimed to be selling the world's cheapest smartphone has been
24 February 2017

ATM dispenses dummy 'children bank' currency

An ATM in Delhi spewed dummy 2,000-rupee notes issued by the 'Children Bank of India', prompting an investigation into the
23 February 2017

Football: Smog may force U-17 football World Cup out of Delhi

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.
22 February 2017

New miniature frog species found in India

Scientists have discovered four new species of miniature night frogs small enough to sit on a fingernail in a remote part of India,
21 February 2017

7 Maoist rebels killed in India gunfight

At least seven suspected Maoist rebels were killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in the remote forests of central India, an officer
21 February 2017

Tamil Nadu gets new chief minister

An ally of disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala was yesterday appointed the next leader of Tamil Nadu state, ending a weeks-long
16 February 2017

Indian court jails one, frees two

An Indian court sentenced one person to 10 years' imprisonment but acquitted two others yesterday over bomb blasts that ripped
16 February 2017

Big fat Indian weddings in crosshairs of thrifty MP

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.
16 February 2017

India in record space mission

India hopes to make history by launching a record 104 satellites from a single rocket today as its famously frugal space agency looks to
14 February 2017

Indian SC jails would be TN CM

India's Supreme Court jailed the anointed next leader of Tamil Nadu for four years for corruption yesterday, heightening the turmoil in a
14 February 2017

Four killed in Indian Kashmir gunbattle

Three soldiers and a suspected militant were killed in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after an army patrol came
14 February 2017

India court allows BNP leader Salahuddin to take treatment outside Shilong

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.
13 February 2017

Indian commandos go missing en masse

Dozens of trainee commandos from India's elite jungle warfare unit have gone missing on the eve of their first deployment to a restive
6 February 2017