As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India has accused China of “militarisation of the Taiwan Strait”, in an escalating war of words triggered by a Chinese military ship docking in Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port.

As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter - and the accompanying season of acrid smog - the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80 percent of pollutants.

India likely recorded strong double-digit economic growth in the last quarter but economists polled by Reuters expected the pace to more than halve this quarter and slow further toward the end of the year as interest rates rise.

Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris on Sunday near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country in less than 10 seconds.

Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in yesterday as India’s Chief Justice for the Supreme Court, though he is only set to hold the post for 74 days before his retirement falls due in November.

India's foreign exchange reserves to plummeted to the lowest in over two years, marking the third straight week of decline as the Reserve Bank of India, true to its word, intervened to prevent the rupee from falling past 80 to the dollar during a week when the dollar surged to over two-decade highs, NDTV reports.

A veteran leader of India’s main opposition Congress party quit yesterday, issuing a scathing resignation letter in which he blamed the scion of the influential Gandhi family for the decline of the party that dominated Indian politics for decades.

India’s Adani Group yesterday contested claims by New Delhi Television NDTV.NS that regulatory curbs restricted its founders from selling their stake, prolonging the battle for control of a news network seen as bastion of independent media.

For years Indian television company NDTV (NDTV.NS) pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has raised fears that one of the country's last bastions of free media is under threat.

Three suspected militants were killed in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday near the unofficial border between India and Pakistan, Indian police said, in the fourth such incident along the frontier in five days.

In its first reaction to the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, India today (August 25, 2022) condemned the "horrific attack" on the celebrated novelist and wished him a speedy recovery.

India today decided to impose restrictions on the export of wheat flour to curb rising prices of the commodity in domestic market.

An Indian billionaire close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to buy a broadcaster seen as the last major critical voice on television, stoking fears about media freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate yesterday said it seeks to control a majority stake in the popular New Delhi Television (NDTV.NS) (NDTV), a move the TV news group said was executed without its consent.

India’s Supreme Court will hold a hearing on a petition challenging the release last week of 11 men convicted of gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat.

Indian police arrested a BJP lawmaker yesterday for allegedly making derogatory comments against the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), weeks after similar remarks from a top official embroiled the country in a diplomatic storm.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate will buy a majority stake in New Delhi Television (NDTV.NS) (NDTV), marking its most high-profile media bet and setting the stage for a face-off in the sector with fellow tycoon Mukesh Ambani.

A legislator of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern state of Telangana was arrested and suspended today (August 23, 2022) from the party for reportedly making objectionable remark against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

India’s Supreme Court today (August 23, 2022) agreed to hear a public interest litigation (PIL) – challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in a case relating to the gang-rape of Bilkis Bano and murder of 13 people, including her three-year-old child, during the riots in Gujarat state over two decades ago.