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New Delhi, Jul 30: In order to widen the tax base and check undisclosed income, the Income Tax Department has decided to train its scanner on instances of personal expenditure, interest earned on investment, purchase of luxury vehicles and capital gains made from sale of property in a select band of economically surging Indian cities.

Mud and slush surround a building after a mudslide in Malin village, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

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An Indian court convicted 10 people on Wednesday in a 2004 fire that tore through a thatched-roof schoolhouse, killing 94 children in a horrifying case that focused attention on poor fire regulations in the country.

A court in southern India has convicted 10 people for a fire in 2004 that raged through a thatched-roof schoolhouse and killed 94 children while most of the faculty escaped unscathed.

A major landslide on Wednesday struck a village in western India following heavy monsoon rains, killing at least five people and leaving up to 150 feared trapped, officials said.

A landslide hit a village in western India following torrential rains Wednesday, sweeping away scores of houses and raising fears that more than 150 people could be trapped, officials said.

THANJAVUR: A local court in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur held 10 people guilty in the 2004 Kumbakonam school fire accident case.

New Delhi, Jul 29: Millions of Muslims on Tuesday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr across India with joy and devotion, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi praying for "unity and brotherhood in our nation".

Just how is the Indian Muslim reacting to the Israel-Hamas conflict at the Gaza Strip? A quick look at different strata of the Muslim society - from senior bureaucrats in politically sensitive Hyderabad to common men in communally sensitive Assam - shows they are worried.

Kathmandu: Breaking protocol, Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala will personally receive his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi when he lands in Kathmandu Aug 3 on a two-day visit.

Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, but industry analysts and safety experts say they can find no common themes.

With grain silos spilling over, exports on the rise and an avowed market champion for prime minister, India's threat to trash a global trade deal in the name of food security appears puzzling.

"There is low pressure formed over the Bay of Bengal and there is an outshore trough running from the Maharashtra coast to the coastline of Karnataka.

A view of a street during curfew in Saharanpur a day after violent clashes between two communities over a land dispute on Sunday.

When Arun and Usha Pancholi were deciding where to spend their retirement years, they wanted a place that combined the culture and camaraderie of life in India with the comforts and conveniences they had grown accustomed to after nearly five decades in Minnesota and Ohio.

When Arun and Usha Pancholi were deciding where to spend their retirement years, they wanted a place that combined the culture and camaraderie of life in India with the comforts and conveniences they had grown accustomed to after nearly five decades in Minnesota and Ohio.

This is the second time this week that Indian fishermen have been arrested by the Lankan Navy.

An official at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo allegedly planned strikes on American and Israeli consulates in south India, reports Vicky Nanjappa/ Rediff.com aheed Hussain -- a resident of Kandy, Sri Lanka, who was arrested a week before the twin explosions aboard a train at Chennai's Central railway station on May 1 -- has made startling ... (more)

Seven-year-old girl, her baby sister and her grandmother are killed and their belongings torched by an angry mob in Pakistan over a 'blasphemous' Facebook post.