India

A power cut in an Indian village led to a "bride-groom swap," and two sisters almost marrying the wrong grooms.

An Indian airline has come under fire after it did not allow a child with special needs on board one of its flights at Ranchi airport over the weekend.

Ships made available by Middle Eastern clients have eased the burden of high freight costs that were a concern for exporters earlier

A 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by four men, was raped again when she went to file a complaint with the police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Last year, Meta Platforms Inc hired Rajiv Aggarwal - who spent years working in India's federal and state governments - as its head of policy.

An Indian woman's conversation with her father has gone viral on social media with many lauding the woman for what she did with a potential match that she found on a matrimonial website.

Indian authorities seized nearly 90 kg of heroin worth $58m (£46m) from Pipavav port in the western state of Gujarat last week. It had been kept in bags containing heroin-soaked yarn bales.

Several parts of India have been grappling with an intense heatwave as the country experiences one of the hottest summers this year. According to experts, the temperatures are expected to only increase during the next few days.

A massive fire broke out at Bhalswa landfill site in India's national capital New Delhi on Tuesday and continues to burn even now. This is not the first time that the infamous mountainous garbage dump caught fire releasing toxic smoke.

A video that has gone viral on social media brought a cruel tradition to light wherein a person gets every strand of hair pulled from her head by hand until they go bald. The tradition is followed by people who follow an ancient Indian religion called Jainism.

An Indian high court has now said that live-in relationships are responsible for a rise in sexual offences and for promoting "lascivious behaviour."

The sudden surge in COVID-19 cases has forced India's national capital, New Delhi, to bring back the mask mandate, weeks after the government made wearing masks voluntary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, regularly emphasises the independence struggle as a vital component of India's national identity.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accused India of stalling the health agency's efforts to revise the global Covid death toll after it reportedly pegged India's death toll at 4 million as against the official figure of 520,000

The G20, chaired by Indonesia this year, includes major economies like the United States, China, India, Brazil, Japan and several countries in Europe.

An Indian man who was seen in a viral video publicly threatening to kidnap and rape Muslim women has been arrested by the police in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The NPCI gave WhatsApp approval to launch the payments service in 2020 after the company spent years trying to comply with Indian regulations

A Ukrainian mother fleeing war was left with no option but to scribble her family's contact details on her two-year-old daughter Vera's back.

A group of thieves posed as government officials to dismantle and steal parts of a 60-feet-long abandoned iron bridge in an Indian village near Bihar's Sasaram.

A recent order by the civic officials in India's capital New Delhi, ordering the closing down of meat shops in the city during the Hindu festival of Navratri, has sparked outrage in the country.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a rare video appearance has praised Muskan Khan, the student who had become the face of defiance against the hijab ban in the Indian state of Karnataka.

A police officer did not think twice before risking his own life to save a child when communal violence broke out in the Karauli area of the Indian state of Rajasthan on Saturday.

A Sociology textbook elaborating the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system has sparked a row in India with legislators, activists and social media users asking for its removal.

Kangaroos, a species native to Australia , was found in the Indian state of West Bengal, leaving officials in shock. The forest officials have called it a case of smuggling and have initiated a probe into the incident.

Massive stone jars that may have been used for ancient human burial practices thousands of years ago have been discovered in the Indian state of Assam.

An Indian techie named Nandan Kumar hacked an airline's website to locate his luggage after he accidentally switched it with a co-passenger's luggage on March 27.

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

In a landmark ruling, an Indian court on Friday refused to dismiss rape charges filed against a man by his wife stating that "a rape is a rape," and that marriage does not grant "special license to unleash a beast."

A two-month-old baby was found dead in an out-of-order microwave oven in India's capital New Delhi. The incident took place on Tuesday in the Chirag Delhi area of the city.