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India's retail inflation is likely to breach the mandated inflation target band of 2-6% for three straight quarters but is showing indications of peaking, Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Michael Patra said on Friday.

Sri Lanka will call China, India and Japan to a donor conference to drum up more foreign assistance to find a way out of its worsening economic crisis, the prime minister said on Wednesday, amid ongoing talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Mahatma Gandhi's grandson bows out of Indian presidential race

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain.

Authorities in India cancelled more than 500 trains services on Monday because of calls for protests by young men angry with a military recruitment plan that they say will rob them of the opportunity of a career in the armed forces.

A distressing video from the Indian state of Nagaland shows three men brutally torturing a Great Indian Hornbill.

In a bizarre and shocking incident reported from the Indian state of Odisha, an elephant killed a 70-year-old woman.

India's surprise decision to ban wheat exports has raised concerns about potential curbs on rice exports as well, prompting rice traders to step up purchases and place atypical orders for longer-dated deliveries.

In a heart-wrenching video from the Indian state of Bihar, an elderly couple could be seen begging for money.

Food prices: how countries are using the global crisis to gain geopolitical power

Terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has threatened suicide bombings all over India to avenge purported remarks made against Prophet.

A 26-year-old man from the Indian state of West Bengal, allegedly chopped off his wife's right hand.

A British woman on a vacation to India has accused a local masseuse of raping her in front of her partner near a famous beach in Goa.

Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence

A near doubling in benchmark cotton futures to 11-year highs, hard on the heels of a spike in freight and fuel prices, is clobbering Asian apparel makers while their global retail customers are reluctant to soak up the extra costs.

Two senior Indian bureaucrats posted in the national capital, Delhi, have been transferred to different corners of the country.

Mastercard suspended operations in Russia - a market that accounted for roughly 4% its net revenue in 2021 - in March, over its invasion of Ukraine.

India's Supreme Court directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting sex workers.

India has developed close ties with Washington in recent years and is a vital part of the Quad grouping aimed at pushing back against China.

A Muslim school teacher in the Indian state of Assam was arrested for allegedly carrying beef to school in her lunch box.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency companies have a large presence at this year's Davos meeting, which coincides with a period of crypto prices plummeting around the world.

On the second leg of his first Asia trip as president, Biden is to meet with leaders of Japan, India and Australia

The floods have been wreaking havoc in the Indian state of Assam with at least eleven people having lost their lives in various flood-related incidents so far.

A study published in The Lancet has revealed that pollution caused more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest number reported from any country.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who spent 31 years in jail in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The UN meeting -- to be chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- will include Vellamvelly Muraleedharan, India's minister of state for external affairs.

Reliance is in final stages of negotiations with around 30 popular niche local consumer brands to fully acquire them or form joint venture partnerships for sales

An Indian court failed to reach a decision on the question of criminalising rape within marriage, leaving the laws unchanged. The issue can now go to the Supreme Court of the country.

The scorching heatwave that has swept India is not only affecting humans but is also proving deadly for animals. The animal rescuers in the Indian state of Gujarat have come across dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping every day in the last few weeks.

The residents of the Srikakulam district of India's Andhra Pradesh woke up to a pleasant surprise after a gold-colored chariot washed ashore at Sunnapalli Sea Harbour on Tuesday.