Curfew imposed in Indian city as two die in protests, internet shut in parts
Authorities shut down the internet in parts of northern India on Friday and imposed a curfew in a southern city after two people died in clashes between...
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India citizenship law protests spread across campuses
Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing...
Indian police kill 4 men suspected of raping vet, draw cheers
Indian police shot dead four men today Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the city of Hyderabad, a police...
India and Cyprus pledge to further boost bilateral ties
India will continue its unwavering support to Cyprus, for its independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and unity, India’s new High Commissioner to Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat...
New Delhi declares public emergency as pollution at year’s worst
Authorities in New Delhi declared a public health emergency on Friday and closed schools and all construction activity until next week as air pollution in...
Kashmir: the ‘wounded civilisation’ strikes back
By Gwynne Dyer God knows what novelist VS Naipaul really meant half a century ago when he called India ‘the wounded civilisation’ in his...
India scraps special status for Kashmir (Update)
By Aditya Kalra, Sanjeev Miglani and Danish Ismail India on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a...
Kashmir turmoil rises as India restricts movement, regional leaders fear arrest
By Fayaz Bukhari and Alasdair Pal SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The disputed region of Kashmir was thrown into further turmoil in the early hours of Monday...
Pakistan arrests accused mastermind of Mumbai attacks
Pakistan authorities on Wednesday arrested Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terror...
Pakistan reopens airspace to civil aviation after India standoff
Pakistan re-opened its airspace to civil aviation on Tuesday following months of restrictions imposed after clashes with India, which forced lengthy detours that cost airlines...
India hands over 250 houses for Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine
India has handed over 250 prefabricated houses it built in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as part of a broader effort to help tens of thousands of...
Bus crash on highway to India’s Taj Mahal kills 28, injures 18
A bus on Monday skidded off an expressway to India’s northern city of Agra, home of the famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, and...
Heavy rains in India kill 30, cripples financial capital (Update)
Wall collapses in Mumbai and nearby towns, caused by the worst monsoon rains in a single day in 14 years, killed 30 people on Tuesday...
Modi win a massive victory for democracy in India
By R.K. Raghavan The people of India have once again convincingly demonstrated their faith in democracy and in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatya...
Protests erupt in India after top judge cleared of sexual harassment
NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters gathered outside India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, a day after a panel of judges dismissed a...
India plans to evacuate 800,000 as cyclone nears east coast
By Jatindra Dash and Neha Dasgupta BHUBANESHWAR, India/NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) – India will use boats, buses and trains to evacuate 800,000 people along...
Dalai Lama, 83, hospitalised with chest infection
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday with chest infection, an aide said, adding that the 83-year-old...
How Pakistan’s army keeps its conflict with India alive
After the terrorist attack on Indian troops in Kashmir two weeks ago that killed 40 Indian soldiers, but before Tuesday’s retaliatory air strikes across the...
Pakistan says it will return captured Indian pilot (Updated)
By Alasdair Pal and James Mackenzie Pakistan will return a captured pilot “as a peace gesture” to India, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said...
Pakistan shoots down Indian jets, carries out airstrikes in Kashmir
By James Mackenzie and Alasdair Pal ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Pakistan shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Pakistan...
