Opposition parties and trade unions in India are staging a day-long strike over plans to open the country’s retail sector to global supermarket chains. Workers
(Reuters) – With a sprawling five-acre campus, 10,000 students and state-of-the-art LCD projectors in its lecture rooms, Bansal Classes is bigger and slicker than most
(Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of a group of militants who attacked
(Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore and
(Reuters) – A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and
(Reuters) – At least 17 people, including a six-month-old child, were killed and many wounded in fighting between indigenous tribes and Muslim settlers at the
(Reuters) – Scientists aided by supercomputers are trying to unravel one of Mother Nature’s biggest mysteries — the vagaries of the summer monsoon rains that
Thousands of fans have lined the streets of Mumbai, braving monsoon rains, for the funeral of India’s “first superstar” Rajesh Khanna. The funeral procession began