India

Dozens of children drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds in rituals that were part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India’s Bihar state, officials said.

As New Yorkers kick off Indian Independence Day celebrations with the raising of the flag in Times Square on Thursday, the upcoming weekend parade is marred by a float that some say is anti-Muslim. The theme for this year’s 42nd annual India Day Parade is “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” or “the world is one family,” but some members of interfaith and...

Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive are waning as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day after landslides set off by torrential rains killed at least 194 people in southern India.

Global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians are arriving in India’s financial capital to attend the wedding of the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, the world’s ninth richest man.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory Tuesday for his alliance in India’s general election, claiming a mandate to push forward with his agenda, even though his party lost seats to a stronger than expected opposition, which pushed back against his mixed economic record and polarizing politics.

Congress is looking into allegations of antibiotic-positive shrimp at a Choice Canning factory that supplies Walmart, Aldi and other supermarkets.

Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic was crowned Miss World at a glittering contest held in India on Saturday night.

It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting famous people from around the world to attend a three-day bash in the family’s hometown.

Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months’ detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

India’s top politicians, religious leaders and celebrities are gathering in the holy city of Ayodhya for the partial opening of a grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram.

The strange ordeal spotlighted a complicated migration situation that often sends trafficking victims through multiple countries before arriving at a final destination, such as the U.S.

Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit. Some leaders have voiced support for a target of tripling renewable energy worldwide in any final agreement while curbing use of coal, oil and natural gas, which spew planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.

U.S. authorities announced murder-for-hire charges against a man from India who they say plotted to pay an assassin $100,000 to kill a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City after the man advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs.

Indian search and rescue teams reached the dozens of construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks.

Officials in India said Tuesday they had begun rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks.

The 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for over a week are finally getting hot meals, provided through a newly installed steel pipe, as rescuers work on an alternate plan of digging toward them vertically.

Officials trying to save 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days are contemplating alternative rescue plans after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging. A new drilling machine arrived at the accident site in Uttarakhand state on Saturday to replace one that was damaged while breaking through the...

Rescuers are digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide in northern India.

The 12th-century Jaisalmer Fort is a “living fort” lined with cafes, shops, hotels and homes that house the thousands of people who live inside it.

Officials in India say 13 people have died and 25 others are injured after two passenger trains collided in the country’s south.