India

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 11, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 07, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 07, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 06, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 06, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 05, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 01, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Apr 01, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 28, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 25, 2022

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."

Sadhna Yadav Mar 25, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 23, 2022

At least eight people were burnt alive following the death of a village leader in Rampurhat village of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 23, 2022

The economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka is only worsening with each passing day, the country has now cancelled school exams for millions of students as it has run out of printing paper and ink

Sadhna Yadav Mar 22, 2022

Former Tennis star Maria Sharapova and legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher have been booked for fraud and criminal conspiracy on the basis of a complaint filed by a woman in India's Gurugram.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 21, 2022

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 16, 2022

An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 16, 2022

The ranger is reportedly the third victim that was mauled by the same tiger

Christine Caparras Nov 23, 2021

The man was struck by a speeding motorcycle and declared dead in the hospital after showing no signs of life.

Tanya Diente Nov 22, 2021

Many Indian children still experience violence at the hands of their own guardians.

Naina Raghavan Sep 27, 2021

The National Crime Bureau of India, as recently as 2017, recorded nearly 7,000 dowry linked deaths a year.

Suman Varandani Jul 23, 2021

A doctor said such deformities occur in one in a million babies

Suman Varandani Jun 25, 2021

The Beijing-based tech company has not yet revealed how many of its 2,000 employees in India will be laid off.

Snow Digon Jan 29, 2021

It is believed that a childless couple paid two men to extract the child's liver to perform an occult ritual in hopes of conceiving a child.

Agrima Tikader Nov 17, 2020

The current captain's actions are being compared to those of the former captain who did not take paternity leave during the 2015 World Cup for his first-born's birth.

Agrima Tikader Nov 10, 2020

The news anchor's arrest has drawn criticism towards the ruling party of the state of Maharashtra, India.

Agrima Tikader Nov 04, 2020

The man had been unemployed for years and had sworn to sacrifice his life if he managed to get hired.

Agrima Tikader Nov 03, 2020

While the average Indian consumes around 19kg of sugar a year, this is still well below the global average of 23 kg.

Nina Siena Nov 03, 2020

The elderly stall owner accused the blogger of misappropriating funds collected from a social media donation campaign meant to support the failing food stall.

Nina Siena Nov 03, 2020

The female dog remains in a critical condition after the animal abuser left it penetrated with an 11-inch wooden rod.

Agrima Tikader Oct 27, 2020