EXCHANGE OF FIRE CONTINUES ON PAKISTAN-INDIA BORDER

Pakistan's 'dirty politics' India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they gained independence from Britain seven decades ago, two of them over Kashmir... READ MORE›

MARLON JAMES JAMAICAN NOVELIST WINS MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Mr. James is the first Jamaican-born author to win the Man Booker Britain's most prestigious literary award... READ MORE›

41 INDIAN WRITERS HAVE RETURNED THEIR COUNTRY'S HIGHEST LITERARY HONOUR

41 Indian writers return highest literary honour to protest against PM Narendra Modi... READ MORE›

INDIAN SISTERS TO BE RAPED AS 'PUNISHMENT' FOR BROTHER ELOPING

These Khap courts routinely order vile sexually violent punishments against women... READ MORE›

AN INDIAN TEEN WAS RAPED BY HER FATHER. VILLAGE ELDERS HAD HER WHIPPED.

Arun Jadhav, 45, an illiterate trumpet player, was reserved, a Nike ball cap pulled low over his eyes... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER, SURVIVORS RECALL THE HORRORS OF INDIA-PAKISTAN PARTITION

Partition of India Survivors of 1947 riots recall horrors of India-Pakistan separation... READ MORE›

PM NARENDRA MODI LEADS THOUSANDS IN CELEBRATION

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led thousands in a mass yoga programme in the capital Delhi on the first ever International Yoga Day... READ MORE›

BYSTANDERS WATCH AS DELHI WOMAN KILLED

Indians react with outrage after passers-by watch a woman being murdered by a man who stabbed her more than 20 times on a busy Delhi street... READ MORE›

AIR INDIA WORKER DIES AFTER BEING SUCKED INTO PLANE ENGINE

An engineer at Mumbai airport died after being sucked into the engine of an Air India plane, the company said... READ MORE›

TWO INDIAN SISTERS TO BE RAPED AS 'PUNISHMENT' AFTER BROTHER ELOPED

The village council then made its ruling that the Dalit family should be dishonoured to avenge the brother's supposed crime... READ MORE›

DEATH TOLL RISES TO 36, 552 PEOPLE ARRESTED, SAYS HARYANA DGP

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh convicted LIVE Death toll rises to 36, 552 people arrested, says Haryana DGP... READ MORE›

HINDU MOB KILLS MUSLIM MAN AFTER RUMOURS HE WAS EATING BEEF

A group of about 60 beat Mohammad Akhlaq with sticks and bricks and left son with severe injuries in Bisara, India... READ MORE›

CHINA AND INDIA HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITH RACISM TOWARD BLACK PEOPLE

For Beijing and New Delhi, the continent is an important arena not just for trade, but for the exercise of soft power and wider geopolitical goals... READ MORE›

INDIA TO CHANGE ITS DECADES-OLD RELIANCE ON FEMALE STERILIZATION

And it is Mr. Modi's socially conservative Bharatiya Janata Party that has broken with decades of resistance to injectables... READ MORE›

MODI CONSOLIDATES POWER WITH WIN IN INDIAS BIGGEST STATE

Narendra Modis B.J.P. Party Wins Big in Uttar Pradesh, Indias Largest State... READ MORE›

INDIA SENDS ELITE COMMANDOS TO GUARD BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE; OUTRAGE ENSUES

Nita Ambani is the wife of India's richest man. The couple lives in a famous 27-story home with a ballroom and six parking levels... READ MORE›

BEIJING NOT THE MOST POLLUTED CITY IN THE WORLD

While certainly wretched by American standards, Beijing's average air pollution level is 53, on a scale from 26 to 208... READ MORE›

AN INDIAN RAPE SURVIVOR WAS ALLEGEDLY RAPED AGAIN BY THE SAME FIVE MEN

Saurabh Das AP A 20-year-old college student was found in the roadside bushes of a small northern Indian city last week, raped and left for dead... READ MORE›

INDIA AND PAKISTAN WARN EACH OTHER OVER ATTACKS

Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said his country would respond befittingly to Indian aggression but it did not want confrontation... READ MORE›

VIBRATING CANE TO HELP BLIND PEOPLE

Priced at under 50 30, the hope is that the smart cane can help people in developing countries... READ MORE›

GUNMEN ATTACK INDIA AIR FORCE BASE

Pathankot air force base is about 430km 270 miles north of the Indian capital, Delhi... READ MORE›

BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR JOHN BERGER DIES AGED 90

The Booker prize-winning author and art critic John Berger has died at the age of 90... READ MORE›

PARIS CLIMATE TALKS: THROUGH THE SMOG, COAL-HUNGRY INDIA SEES 'CARBON IMPERIALISM' IN THE WEST

Paris climate talks Through the smog, coal-hungry India sees 'carbon imperialism' in the West... READ MORE›

INDIA RETRACTS PROPOSAL ON ENCRYPTION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA DATA AFTER OUTCRY

Our prime minister believes in absolute freedom on social media... READ MORE›

WHOLE LOTTA LIVE: THE NIGHT LED ZEPPELIN PLAYED AN INDIAN GIG FOR A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH

Page and Plant, Led Zeppelin's guitarist and singer, were returning from a tour in Japan when they stopped in India in 1972... READ MORE›

INDIAN ARMY'S ANGER OVER KASHMIR KILLINGS

India, for its part plans to retaliate by raising human rights issues in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province promising a diplomatic stand-off between the neighbours... READ MORE›

INDIAN WOMEN PUSH BACK AGAINST CAMPUS CURFEWS

Delhi University is a sprawling open campus that is neither walled nor gated... READ MORE›

10 BEST INDIAN NOVELS AND TRAVEL BOOKS

City of Djinns A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple ?9.98, harpercollins.co.uk When it comes to Indian travelogues, Dalrymple is king... READ MORE›

CATTLE BECOME A TRIGGER FOR SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN INDIA

Two weeks later, a mob in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh clashed with the police after a rumor spread that a cow had been slaughtered... READ MORE›

Militants in India's northeastern state of Assam killed at least 56 people, firing indiscriminately in remote tribal villages on Tuesday... READ MORE›