India News

Last week Sony sent us a media invite for the event where it was going to launch the highly-awaited PS4 console.

Unitus Seed Fund , which invests in for-profit startups in India to help people at the bottom of the economic pyramid access basic necessities, has raised its second fund of $3.3 million.

New Delhi, Dec 17: Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" started off on a good note at the Indian box office, managing to earn more than Rs.

They were sentenced to 20 years in prison. Officially, they were sentenced to 20 years each for sexual assault and five years for robbery, but the sentences will run concurrently.

Indian workers remove Tuesday a barricade that had been erected as a safety measure outside the main entrance of U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.

Kochi, Dec 17: A division bench of the Kerala High Court Tuesday upheld a lower court's judgment of awarding death sentence to a rapist and also came down heavily on the Indian Railways, lawyers and also fellow passengers who did not come to the victim's rescue.

The father of an Indian diplomat who was arrested in New York City on visa fraud charges has called his daughter's treatment in the United States "barbaric."

IDFC Ltd., a financing company that is India's largest lender to road projects, expects the government to take steps to boost investment in infrastructure projects before elections next year.

Tests at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China revealed antibiotic-resistant bacteria were not only escaping purification but also breeding and spreading their dangerous cargo.

Hyderabad, Dec 16: Andhra Pradesh Police Monday arrested more than 100 red sander smugglers here allegedly involved in the killing of two forest officials in Chittoor district's Seshachalam forests Sunday.

An Indian woman puts her hands to her face Dec. 16 as she pays her respects on the first anniversary of the fatal gang rape of a young woman in a bus in New Delhi, India.

Students, Bollywood actresses and women's groups held rallies and candlelight vigils across India on Monday in memory of a young woman whose fatal gang rape on a moving bus one year ago shook the nation's conscience.

Pakistani Shiite Muslim mourners react beside the coffin of Shiite scholar Allama Nasir Abbas following an attack by gunmen in Lahore on December 16, 2013.

The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi shattered India's silence over sexual violence and emboldened victims to speak out, family members and campaigners said Monday on the anniversary of the attack.

As India marks the anniversary of the infamous gang rape in New Delhi, it is ending the year as it began: in upheaval over its treatment of women.

Witch doctors and religious charlatans beware: New legislation passed in a central Indian state aims to prosecute those who use beliefs and superstition to defraud or physically harm followers.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif stated on Sunday he was leaving India with many hopes and expectations and he was confident that his visit would pave the way for cooperation between India and Punjab in the energy, agriculture, livestock and other sectors.

Supporters of Aam Aadmi Party celebrated the party's result in the Delhi Assembly elections in Allahabad.

The chauffeur's boss was out of town, so the driver called a friend and said "let's have some fun" - which police say meant finding a woman to rape.

A baby girl is seen lying in a cradle inside the Life Line Trust orphanage in Salem in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on June 20, 2013.