India's three-decade ban on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" may be lifted after the government lost the official court order to keep it banned.

A man's death was recorded on camera when his drunken friends dared him to sit on a box of fireworks.

A group of educated young professionals, including an award-winning postgraduate chemistry student, are under arrest after a police raid on a secret meth lab.

A riverside picnic descended into chaos when the group called to a nearby leopard, unwittingly inviting a ferocious attack that left three people injured.

A 17-year-old boy in India was arrested for sending hoax bomb threats to several airlines using a fake X account to frame a friend he was angry with.

26-year-old Anna Sebastian Perayil's death triggered a federal government investigation into employee welfare at Ernst & Young.

The 6-year-old's father said that his daughter was lured into an abandoned building and stripped naked before a group of monkeys swarmed the man.

In June, CBP reported more than 2,800 encounters with Indian nationals along the northern border, an all-time high

The premier has trodden a delicate balance between maintaining India's historically warm ties with Russia while courting closer security partnerships with Western nations as a bulwark against regional rival China.

Days of torrential monsoon rains have battered the southern coastal state of Kerala, with blocked roads into the Wayanad district disaster area complicating relief efforts.

Cyclone Remal, which made landfall in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring India on Sunday evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, left at least 21 people dead.

Another Musk-owned business, satellite internet operator Starlink, is set to receive initial approvals to operate in India, a government source told AFP.

Political parties are harnessing powerful artificial intelligence tools to make deepfakes, reproducing famous faces and voices in ways that often appear authentic.

A working session on dispute settlement reform was held on the third day of the WTO's 13th ministerial meeting (MC13) in Abu Dhabi, where little progress is expected on the issue amid major disagreements.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday inaugurate a temple that embodies the triumph of his muscular Hindu nationalist politics, in an unofficial start to his re-election campaign this year.

Dramatic drone footage showing Indian commandos hunting pirates after an attack in the Arabian Sea illustrates New Delhi's "significant" expansion of a muscular maritime force reflecting global ambitions, analysts say.

Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks.

Russia has also had to find new markets for its natural gas exports as Moscow cut its exports to EU nations, which have also looked for new suppliers.

Unable to raise funds or complete complicated paperwork for bail, many women are incarcerated for years while awaiting trial in India's glacial judicial process, said Sudha Bharadwaj, one of the nation's best-known rights lawyers.

US prosecutors unveiled charges on Wednesday against an Indian national they say planned to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil under the direction of an Indian official.

With the world's largest biometric ID database, a pioneering digital payment system for daily transactions and a flagship space and satellite programme, India knows the power of connected technology.

Ambulances were on standby Thursday morning as Indian rescuers dug through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks.

Authorities in the smog-ridden Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday extended an emergency schools closure by a week, with no signs of improvement in the megacity's choking levels of pollution.

Experts from Clemson University in South Carolina and several NGOs published research last month on their work using AI-enabled cameras that they say could help revolutionise tiger conservation.

Brazil is a leading country in ethanol-blended gasoline, and has successfully achieved a 25% level.

As the world order goes through a kind of reshuffling, Brasília is expanding its strategic partnership with India as part of the countries' shared vision for a multipolar order.

Facing a major diplomatic embarrassment, host India pressed members to agree on a common statement on Saturday that denounced the use of force for territorial gain, but shied away from direct criticism of Russia.

If successful, India will become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the United States, the former Soviet Union, and China.

At least seven deaths have been reported in India due to heavy rains this week caused by Cyclone Biparjoy.

The Indian military reported that 23,000 civilians had escaped the violence and were being accommodated on military installations and garrisons.