India News

New Delhi: US retail giant Walmart on Friday announced appointment of Krish Iyer as the president and CEO of its India unit.

Seven civilians and five terrorists were killed in the attack, while all the Members of Parliament managed to escape unhurt.

The phones were ringing nonstop in the tiny, windowless office in downtown New Delhi, with urgent appeals from desperate women.

MUMBAI: Chef Matteo Boglione, at the newly opened Le Cirque Signature in Mumbai, says that when he was getting started at the offshoot of one of New York's elite restaurants he was told repeatedly: 'We want more vegetables'.

Having previously lost two babies to diarrhoea and dysentery, 25-year-old Suman Chandel lies on a bed in a clinic in remote northern India and smiles with relief.

India's GMR Infrastructure Ltd has hired four banks including Citigroup and JPMorgan to manage the listing of its airport business that is expected to raise $300-$350 million, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Protesters in New Delhi rally Wednesday against the Supreme Court's decision to restore a ban on gay sex.

A gang of young neighborhood men would harass Sonali Mukherjee whenever she left home - taunting her, following her, hissing lewd comments.

An Indian court on Thursday accepted an appeal by Nokia to release its local factory after it was seized by authorities in a tax dispute, removing a hurdle to the sale of the company's mobile phone business to Microsoft.

Kumaravelu's death triggered the riot in Little India, a precinct of Indian-origin businesses, eateries and pubs where most of the South Asian workers take their Sunday break.

Never one to shy away from an adventure, former ABC Rural Reporter Alice Plate is about to embark on her next challenge.

About two million real Christmas trees will be sold in B.C. over the next two weeks.

Tens of thousands of women each year might be able to skip at least some of the grueling treatments for breast cancer - which can include surgery, heavy chemo and radiation - without greatly harming their odds of survival, new research suggests.

New Delhi, Dec 10 : American filmmaker Spike Lee's dark action thriller "Oldboy", a remake of a 2003 South Korean film by the same name, will hit Indian screens Dec 13. Independent distribution house Multivision Multimedia brings the film to the country.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a 2009 lower court decision to decriminalize homosexuality, dealing a blow to gay activists who have fought for years for the chance to live openly in India's deeply conservative society.

Tackling inflation will be a key priority, India's finance minister and central bank governor said on Wednesday, after high consumer prices contributed to painful losses for the ruling Congress Party in recent state elections.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court's ruling that decriminalized gay sex, a move condemned by gay rights activists as a big step backward in their struggle for acceptance in this largely conservative country.

Four Sikhs convicted of the revenge stabbing in London of an Indian general who had led a raid on Sikhism's holiest shrine in India were jailed in Britain on Tuesday, police said.

India's recent acquisition of the Russian-made aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya demonstrates its desire to increase its naval strength.

Vendors sell hair bands and food in the Ladies' Special train in Mumbai, where there are two trains every day except Sunday reserved for women.