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WHY AREN'T INDIANS ANGRIER OVER NOTE BAN FAILURE?
For years, this country has felt that corruption, black money and terrorism are festering sores, holding us back in the race towards development... READ MORE›
VIEWPOINT WHY MODIS CURRENCY GAMBLE WAS EPIC FAILURE
On 8 November last year, the Modi government decided to demonetise 500 7 ?6 rupee and 1,000 rupee notes, which were worth 15.44tn rupees in total... READ MORE›
INDIAN GURU SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR RAPE
"Ram Rahim has been sentenced to 10 years in jail," defense lawyer Utsav Singh Bains said after the sentence was pronounced at a makeshift court at Rohtak in Haryana... READ MORE›
INDIAN COURT JAILS RAPIST 'GODMAN' FOR 20 YEARS AMID TIGHT SECURITY
Utsav Singh Bains, a lawyer for the victims, said there could be dozens more cases of abuse involving women at the sect... READ MORE›
LURID TALES OF INDIA'S RAPIST GURU
Until his conviction and arrest on Friday for rape, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh appeared invincible... READ MORE›
INDIAN GURU AWAITS SENTENCING FOR RAPE AMID INTENSE SECURITY
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday it was natural to be worried as the violence even briefly reached the capital New Delhi... READ MORE›
INDIAN GURU AWAITS SENTENCING FOR RAPE AMID INTENSE SECURITY
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday it was natural to be worried as the violence even briefly reached the capital New Delhi... READ MORE›
INDIAN STATES IN LOCKDOWN FOR GURU'S RAPE SENTENCING AFTER DEADLY PROTESTS
Last year a Haryana minister announced the state would donate 5m Indian rupees 78,000 to Singh's Dera sect to promote sports... READ MORE›
INDIAN CITY BARRICADED AS 'RAPE GURU' AWAITS SENTENCING
Our father can never do any sin, said devotee Trilok Insaan at a shop in Sirsa adorned with posters of a heavily-bearded Singh... READ MORE›
INDIA'S BIHAR STATE REELS UNDER UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING
Ashish Ranjan, a resident of Araria district in the eastern part of the state, said the impact of the flood was massive... READ MORE›
SEARCH ON FOR SURVIVORS AFTER AT LEAST 23 PASSENGERS KILLED WHEN INDIAN TRAIN PLOWS INTO HOMES, COLLEGE
Another 156 people were injured when 14 carriages came off the tracks in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh state, 130 kM 80 miles from New Delhi, on Saturday evening... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 23 DEAD, DOZENS HURT AS TRAIN DERAILS IN INDIA
A 2012 government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on India's railways and described the loss of life as an annual massacre ... READ MORE›
TRAIN DERAILS IN UTTAR PRADESH, MORE THAN 20 KILLED
The accident took place near Khatauli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, about 100km northeast of the national capital, New Delhi... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 23 DEAD, DOZENS HURT AS TRAIN DERAILS IN INDIA
A 2012 government report said almost 15,000 people were killed every year on India's railways and described the loss of life as an annual massacre ... READ MORE›
INDIA HOSPITAL: 60 CHILDREN DIE IN UTTAR PRADESH
The deaths occurred over a five-day period from Monday at the Baba Raghav Das hospital in Gorakhpur district... READ MORE›
INDIAN RIGHT-WING LEADER ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT, BEATING GANDHI GRANDSON AND BOOSTING MODI
India's lawmakers on Saturday elected a veteran leader from the ruling right-wing party as the country's next vice president, boosting Prime Minister Naren... READ MORE›
BJP BECOMES LARGEST PARTY IN RS, MASSIVE FIRE ENGULFS DUBAI SKYSCRAPER AND MORE
Top news at 10 am BJP becomes largest party in RS, massive fire engulfs Dubai skyscraper and more... READ MORE›
CHINA WARNS INDIA OVER 'MILITARY BUILDUP' AT BORDER
READ MORE China demands India pulls back troops in border dispute India, meanwhile, denied any such military buildup... READ MORE›
INDIA'S PRESIDENT RAM NATH KOVIND TAKES OATH
Kovind said he will use his position to improve the situation of Dalits, a community once known as 'untouchables'... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF LOWER-CASTE INDIANS PIN HOPES ON PRESIDENT-ELECT
Kovind's victory caps a series of appointments by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that are seen as strengthening the grip of India's Hindu right on public offices... READ MORE›
INDIA PICKS BJP-BACKED LEADER AS NEW PRESIDENT
Ram Nath Kovind's election makes him nation's first president aligned to ruling party-allied Hindu revivalist group RSS... READ MORE›
INDIA ELECTS RAM NATH KOVIND, A MEMBER OF 'UNTOUCHABLE' CLASS, AS PRESIDENT
India elects Ram Nath Kovind, a member of 'untouchable' class, as president... READ MORE›
INDIA'S NEW PRESIDENT ROSE FROM POVERTY TO HIGH OFFICE
NEW DELHI -- A few weeks ago, relatively few people in India had heard of Ram Nath Kovind... READ MORE›
HINDU NATIONALIST LEADER KOVIND CHOSEN AS INDIA'S NEW PRESIDENT
Kovind, 71, a Hindu nationalist leader has been elected India's new president, a largely ceremonial position... READ MORE›
FROM LOWEST CASTE TO HIGHEST OFFICE
SHARE Link India's new president Ram Nath Kovind, centre, is flanked by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders M.M... READ MORE›
FROM LOWEST CASTE TO HIGHEST OFFICE
The BJP knows this and, experts say, it has given up on Indian Muslims to focus exclusively on winning dalit support... READ MORE›
INDIA SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS CATTLE SLAUGHTER BAN
India's Supreme Court has suspended a law that would have banned the sale of cattle for slaughter nationwide... READ MORE›
WHY STOPPING INDIA'S VIGILANTE KILLINGS WILL NOT BE EASY
I spoke to Sanjay Subrahmanyam, one of India's most distinguished and provocative historians, on the cultural history of violence in India... READ MORE›
AIR INDIA BREAK-UP AN OPTION AS MODI PUSHES FOR QUICK SALE
At this juncture, selling even part of Air India is far from certain... READ MORE›
MODI FINALLY SPEAKS OUT AGAINST LYNCHINGS OF 'BEEF EATERS'
MUMBAI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence Thursday and delivered a speech condemning a recent spate of lynchings in India... READ MORE›
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90 KILLED AFTER TRAIN DERAILS IN NORTH INDIA
The worst train accident occurred in 1981 near Saharsa Bihar when a passenger train fell into the Baghmati River, killing nearly 800 people... READ MORE›
INDIA STATE TO GIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR COW SLAUGHTER
But Modi's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, which recently won India's largest state Uttar Pradesh in a landslide, has long campaigned for the protection of cows... READ MORE›
BJP 'TARGETED' BOLLYWOOD STAR KHAN FOR CRITICAL REMARKS
However, Manohar Parrikar, India's defence minister and a senior BJP leader, suggested at a public function later that Khan was taught a lesson... READ MORE›
MOB KILLS MUSLIM MAN TRANSPORTING COWS IN INDIA
Critics say the vigilantes have been emboldened by the election in 2014 of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party BJP ... READ MORE›
NARENDRA MODI: THE DIVISIVE MANIPULATOR WHO CHARMED THE WORLD
In 2005, when Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the wealthy Indian state of Gujarat, local police murdered a criminal called Sheikh Sohrabuddin in cold blood... READ MORE›
INDIANS' VERDICT ON DONALD TRUMP'S HINDI
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has spoken a few words of Hindi in a video aimed at wooing Indian-American voters... READ MORE›
17 INDIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN ATTACK ON KASHMIR BASE
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemned what he called the cowardly terror attack ... READ MORE›
CRACKDOWN ON INDIAN NEWS NETWORK SPARKS FEAR THAT PRESS FREEDOM IS UNDER THREAT
On Monday night, NDTV aired a half-hour Hindi language broadcast, anchored by Ravish Kumar, describing the atmosphere of fear in which Delhi's news media works... READ MORE›
SCORES KILLED IN DERAILMENT NEAR KANPUR
At least 96 people are killed and 150 injured after an express train derails near Kanpur in northern India... READ MORE›
'HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN AUSTRALIA?'
'How could this happen in Australia?' Cairns cafe worker responds to customer's racial slur... READ MORE›
INDIAN TYCOON HOSTS ?59M WEDDING FOR DAUGHTER AMID CASH CRUNCH
Indian activist T. Narasimha Murthy put the cost of the wedding at 5bn rupees, a figure that tallied with local media reports... READ MORE›
MOB ATTACK FUELED BY RUMORS OF COW SLAUGHTER HAS POLITICAL OVERTONES IN INDIA
Mob Attack Fueled by Rumors of Cow Slaughter Has Political Overtones in India... READ MORE›
DELHI CHIEF 'TO END VIP CULTURE'
Related Stories Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has vowed to end Delhi's VIP culture as he was sworn in as the Indian capital's chief minister... READ MORE›
ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS
Just before the speech, in fact, he met with Kailash Satyarthi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has long fought child slavery in India... READ MORE›
HOW INDIA'S CASH CHAOS IS SHAKING EVERYONE FROM FAMILIES TO BANKS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to Indians to bear the pain for just a little while longer... READ MORE›
ATTACKS ON INDIA'S MINORITY MUSLIMS BY HINDU VIGILANTES MOUNT
India is experiencing an uptick of self-styled Hindu groups attacking Muslims, especially with the rise of Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party... READ MORE›
PM MODI'S PARTY TAKES FIRM LEAD IN STATE ELECTIONS
Victory for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh would boost his chances of winning the 2019 general election... READ MORE›
JEB BUSH TALKS IMMIGRATION EDUCATION RELEASES EMAILS AS HE EYES 2016 BID
Modi, the Delhi results represent the first resounding defeat since his Bharatiya Janata Party, or B... READ MORE›
CASTE QUOTAS IN INDIA COME UNDER ATTACK
AHMEDABAD India The resentment built slowly in Hardik Patel... READ MORE›
INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MODI CRIED AT FACEBOOK. HERES WHY.
Narendra Modi got choked up at Facebook talking about his mother. But family has always been a touchy subject for him... READ MORE›
KASHMIR SHUTS DOWN SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR A MONTH
After roiling student protests on April 17 in Pulwama, in south Kashmir, the government suspended college classes in the region for several days... READ MORE›
DELHI VOTES IN FIRST REAL TEST FOR MODI
Related Stories Voting is under way in Delhi in state elections billed as the first real test of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity... READ MORE›
INDIA'S RAPE PROBLEM IS EXAGGERATED, SAYS MINISTER FOR WOMEN
Many women who report rape cases to police are turned away and pressured not to speak about it... READ MORE›
INDIA BLOCKS 857 PORNOGRAPHY WEBSITES DEFYING SUPREME COURT DECISION
Adding to the confusion, the government acted just weeks after India's Supreme Court declined a request to block access to online pornography... READ MORE›
ANGER GROWS IN INDIA AS BANKS STRUGGLE TO SWAP BANNED NOTES
Much of India's rural economy is powered by cash, with few people regularly using a bank account... READ MORE›
MODI DEFENDS MOVE TO DEMONETISE HIGH-VALUE CURRENCY
India's prime minister has defended his government's decision to demonetise the country's highest-value currency bills in an unusual New Year's Eve message to the nation... READ MORE›
MAJOR ELECTION VICTORY FOR MODI'S BJP IN UTTAR PRADESH
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party BJP had won a clear majority in Uttar Pradesh, home to an estimated 220 million people, according to partial official results... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | MODI'S 'NO FRILLS' VISIT TO WASHINGTON MASKS A POTENTIAL MINEFIELD
None of this is helped by the lack of India expertise on Trumps's advising team... READ MORE›
REGIONAL PDP AHEAD IN KASHMIR POLLS
Related Stories The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has seen off Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP to win the largest number of seats in Indian-administered Kashmir... READ MORE›