Six killed as India heads back to the pollsThe latest stage of India's massive five-week election was marred by bloody violence Thursday, with a landmine triggered by Maoist insurgents killing at least five policemen in an insurgency-hit eastern state.
25 April 2014
Facebook hits 100 million India users, largest after USFacebook has hit more than 100 million users in India, making it only the second country after the United States to achieve the milestone, the social network company has said.
09 April 2014
Indian drug maker Sun to buy troubled peer Ranbaxy for $4.0 blnTop Indian drug giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said Monday it had agreed to buy its troubled peer Ranbaxy for $4.0 billion in stock, ending its ill-fated six-year control by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo.
07 April 2014
New gadgets hope to hush Mumbai's incessant honkingA handful of fed-up residents in one of the world's noisiest cities have taken on a daunting challenge: persuading Indian drivers to stop honking their car horns.
30 March 2014
Australia set to return ancient statues to IndiaAustralia is preparing to return two centuries-old statues to India, following allegations they were stolen from ancient sites and sold as part of an audacious art fraud.
Indian Toyota workers down tools despite end to lockoutEmployees at Toyota's auto assembly plants in southern India failed to return to work Monday at the end of a week-long lockout after refusing to sign codes of conduct, their union said.
Toyota suspends Indian auto production amid labour unrestToyota said Monday it has suspended production at its two Indian auto assembly plants in response to threats against management and "deliberate" assembly-line stoppages, as efforts to hammer out a labour deal failed.
17 March 2014
Dead Indian guru in freezer for 'deep meditation'An Indian guru declared dead has been in a deep freezer in his ashram for nearly six weeks with followers confident he will return to life to lead them.
13 March 2014
Bollywood to dance into final frontier: AmericaBollywood is promising a song-and-dance extravaganza as Indian cinema throws its awards ceremony in the United States for the first time, looking to tap into a mature but lucrative market.
US bans bidis made by Indian tobacco companyUS regulators on Friday banned four types of small cigarettes known as bidis made by an Indian company, marking the Food and Drug Administration's first-ever oversight action against a tobacco product.
23 February 2014
Indian rickshaw driver fatally stabs American wife, kills selfAn Indian rickshaw driver stabbed his American wife to death before setting himself ablaze, police said Saturday, in a violent end to a whirlwind romance scripted in the backdrop of the Taj Mahal.
India to celebrate 'victory over polio'Indian leaders are set later Tuesday to celebrate the eradication of polio, marking one of the country's biggest public health success stories which was once thought impossible to achieve.