An ongoing row between the European Union and coastal Indian Ocean nations over sustainable tuna fishing continues to simmer after a resolution in early February temporarily banned the use of destructive driftnets despite opposition from the European bloc. Civil society organizations sent
The raids took place in New Delhi less than a month after Narendra Modi’s government censored a BBC documentary deemed critical of the prime minister.
Indian Ocean states agreed Monday to temporarily halt the use of industrial fishing gear that is drastically depleting tuna stocks in a win for oceanside states that rely on smaller-scale fishing methods to prop up the livelihoods of communities across coastal regions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against using an eye drop made in India that has been linked to the outbreak of a drug-resistant bacteria leading to adverse events in at least 55 patients in the United States including
The Health and Family Welfare minister in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has died of his injuries after a police officer shot him Monday, according to officials and local reports. Naba Kisore Das was shot by an assistant sub-inspector of police,
A plane crash involving two fighter jets in India has killed one pilot and severely injured the other. “Two fighter aircraft of IAF were involved in an accident near Gwalior this morning. The aircraft were on routine operational flying training mission,” the
Indian businessman Pramod Mittal was charged in Bosnia Thursday with heading an organized crime group and abuse of office while he was head of the supervisory board and co-owner of a coke plant in the northeastern town of Lukavac. Mittal, the younger
A widow was “totally bemused” after seeing her late husband in a restaurant’s promotional video that was supposedly shot last week, according to reports. Lucy Watson, 59, is convinced it is old footage of Harry Doherty, who died nine years ago. She
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday approved an extradition request for the prime suspect in the killing of a woman on an Australian beach four years ago. Rajwinder Singh, who is of Indian origin, was arrested in November on the outskirts
Indian women are increasingly choosing to live “consciously single” as the country seeks to tap into their workforce potential amid concerns of safety and gender discrimination. “The problem in India is security, especially for women,” Siddhartha Dubey, adjunct professor at the Medill