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Four French tourists were in critical condition after a tour bus they were riding in was hit by a truck and overturned Monday in a northwestern Indian city.About 30 other French tourists received more minor injuries in the accident in the historic city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan state, police said.The French Embassy in New Delhi said the ambassador was traveling to Jodhpur where the injured were being treated in a hospital.The tourists were leaving a resort when the accident occurred. Police said the truck slammed into the bus on a highway that goes around the city.India has the world's deadliest roads, with more than 110,000 people killed annually. Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and aging vehicles....
Thousands of angry cyclists held noisy protests in the centre of the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday over a move by the local government to ban them from major r...
An Indian juvenile court convicted a teenager of rape and murder Saturday in the first conviction stemming from the December gang rape of a young woman on a moving N...
Officials warned families to vacate last April
Indian cricket chief N. Srinivasan's son-in-law ran the Indian Premier League's (IPL) Chennai Super Kings team, ex-Australia star Mike Hussey has claimed, in comment...
Police in India's financial center of Mumbai have filed charges against four men and one juvenile boy in the gang rape of a photojournalist last month, the latest at...
Nearly every day at a court in Kolkata, India, Suzette Jordan must relive the brutal gang rape she suffered at the hands of five men in February, 2012, yet she does ...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed Wednesday he will meet his Pakistani counterpart this weekend in a major step towards better relations following risin...
PGA champion Gary Player weighs in on obesity in America and the iGate CEO Cup, a charity golf tournament he is co-hosting.
Opportunity in India Exclusive: Pepsico India Chairman Sanjeev Chadha on why emerging markets such as India and China wil fuel growth for companies such as Pepsico.
A lawyer says an Indian juvenile court has delayed delivering its verdict until Aug. 19 for one suspect in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus. The del...
Hershey Sweets and Refreshments Senior V.P. Steven Schiller on the company expanding its brands overseas.
Etihad Airways is expanding operations in India with more flights and wide-bodied jets, building on its deal with India's Jet Airways as it eyes growth in one of the...
Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful weekend cyclone, officials said, as people picked up belongings and started repai...
An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage, weakened Sunday after making landfall.Fi...
The body of a woman who died after being gang-raped and beaten on a bus in India's capital was cremated Sunday amid an outpouring of anger and grief by millions acro...
Indian police are looking into "every possible hostile group" in their search for the culprits behind the triple bombing in the heart of Mumbai that killed 17 people...
Tras realizar una de las mayores evacuaciones de su historia, la India respira hoy después de que el ciclón Phailin haya reducido mucho su intensidad a su paso por e...
Un enorme y poderoso ciclón que castigó la costa de la India, obligó a la evacuación de medio millón de personas y causó amplios daños, se debilitó el domingo tras t...
Agya Amma surveyed the pile of twisted wood and shredded thatch that was her home in this seaside Indian village. Like most everything else in Podampetta, it was all...