According to CNN, the wealthy Indian Azim Premji is donating 530 billion Indian rupees to charities. That is around 7 billion euros. Never before in India did one person give away so much money at once…
The rising tensions between India and Pakistan can have 'serious and dangerous' consequences for the region. The EU expects the two core states to exercise 'extreme restraint'...
The Indian police arrested a couple for the murder of an Uber driver to steal his taxi. A spokesman said that the two have admitted that they have the driver's tea...
Rain has given a little more air to the residents of New Delhi on Sunday. The Indian capital has been covered for two months by a thick smog layer. The air quality is now slightly less bad...
At least eleven people died after eating a rice dish in a temple in India. The police say that victims had to vomit after the meal and suffer from serious...
An Indian man (21) thought he was funny when he boarded the plane with some friends. 'Terrorist on board. I destroy women's hearts, 'he posted on social media.
An Indian pilot is caught with alcohol one hour before his flight. That was evident from two breath tests that he had to undergo, reports Air India.
Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.
An Indian passenger caused considerable panic when he tried to open the aircraft door in the middle of a flight. The man was reportedly mistaken and thought it was the toilet door. AFP reports that Tuesday.
The Indian police have arrested a Roman Catholic bishop for raping a nun. The nun had said that bishop Franco Mulakkal misused her several times over a period of two years.
Thousands of lovers of comic books, science fiction and fantasy have come to the first African edition of Comic Con. The three-day event in Johannesburg is completely sold out, the organization reports. Visitors come from countries such as Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
Dozens of people have been killed by a bus accident in India. The vehicle hit the road in the state of Telangana. The driver reportedly lost control of the wheel when he was on a busy road for another bus, reports the newspaper Hindustan Times.
The highest court in India has put a line through the punishability of homosexual contacts. Then, under a law dating from the colonial era, a prison sentence of up to ten years was imposed.
India wants to bring a person into space in a few years. The country hopes to bring three crew members into orbit around the earth by 2022. They would have to stay there for five to seven days at an altitude of 300 to 400 kilometers.
India does not need financial support from foreign governments after the flood in Kerala. It is a policy to finance reconstruction after such disasters through 'domestic efforts', the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said after several countries had offered help.
The monsoon rains, which have persisted for days, have killed at least 37 people in the south of India. Most victims in the state of Kerala drowned or were swept away by landslides. The authorities have informed that.
In a bus accident in India at least 25 people were killed. The authorities fear that the death toll will increase further. In the bus there were 34 people who crashed 150 meters down into a ravine.
In India, we were shocked by the death of three sisters in New Delhi. The girls of two, four and eight years old died after they had not been fed for eight days, Indian media reports.
A dead baby was found on the toilet of an airplane in India. A doctor noted that the baby was born on board the AirAsia aircraft on Wednesday.
After a month-long campaign of activists, India has given in and cancels a controversial tax of 12 percent on sanitary napkins and tampons, which was introduced a year ago. The protesters had warned that for the price increase the sanitary products were already too expensive for 80 percent of the women in the country.
A six-story building collapsed near the Indian city of New Delhi and fallen onto another property. According to the police, at least fifteen people are stuck and two deaths have been saved. Local media speak of fifty people who are under the rubble.
Samsung has opened Monday the largest mobile phone factory in the world. It is located in a suburb of the Indian metropolis of Delhi. When the complex is completely finished, 120 million aircraft can be made per year. These can be simple entry-level models, but also flagship ships.
Three men who have been convicted of a fatal gang rape and an Indian bus do not escape the death penalty. The Supreme Court ruled that the trio can be hanged, reports Indian media.
Due to a bus accident in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, 44 people died on Sunday. The Indian channel NDTV reported that the bus drove into a ravine in the Paudi Garhwal district due to unknown reasons.
In a house in the Indian capital New Delhi early Sunday morning the remains of eleven members of a family were found. The Times of India reported that some killed members of the family were hanging on the ceiling and blindfolded.
South India is struggling with an outbreak of a deadly virus that is spread by certain bats. In a few days time, at least ten people died, the authorities in Kerala state say. People get the Nipah virus by consuming fruits and juice that have been infected by the bats. The virus causes, among other things, flu and brain damage.
Due to heavy storms in India, many people died again on Sunday. The media speak of at least forty. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the emergency response service, at least seventeen people were killed. In West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, too, several fatalities are to be regretted by the storm. Lightning strikes and house collapse are most often mentioned as a cause.
Certainly 74 people were killed by storms that crossed the north of the India. Almost all the dead fell in the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of people were injured.
The Indian police have arrested a software developer who gave a colleague a package containing a bomb before his marriage. Police said Punjilal Meher wanted to meet the groom's mother. She was a colleague of the software developer and had a function that Meher herself had in mind.
The 77-year-old Indian guru Asaram Bapu was found guilty by a court in India of the rape of a sixteen-year-old follower in 2013. He thus risks life imprisonment. The penalty is determined later.
