One of the world’s biggest cities is readying for the launch of the first section of an eight-lane motorway set to slash travel time. The first part of the Coastal Road (the official name of which will be Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Coastal
Ice-cold floodwaters caused by an overflowing glacial lake that cracked open a major dam have swept through India’s Himalayan northeast. At least 31 people in India’s mountain towns have died. About 26 relief camps were set up in Sikkim for the 22,000
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a key architect in reducing India’s widespread hunger in the late 1960s and 1970s, has died at 98 years old after suffering from an age-related illness. Swaminathan, decorated with one of India’s highest honors in 1967, helped turn the
India’s moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole, India’s space mission said. “The rover completes its assignments. It is now
India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander successfully landed on the moon Wednesday, just days after a Russian lunar mission to the same area ended in disaster. India is now the first country in the world to successfully land on the moon’s south pole, a
Some 11% of Indians are diabetic, a government study found, adding that diabetes, hypertension and obesity are much more common in India than previously estimated. The study of more than 113,000 people also found that around 15% of Indians were pre-diabetic and
A top court in India ruled Thursday to allow the continuation of the bull-taming sport of jallikattu, that is celebrated as cultural heritage in Tamil Nadu but criticized by animals rights groups. Animal rights organizations had filed court petitions saying jallikattu is
Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he doesn’t recognize anymore. It’s a country, the 68-year-old says, where Muslims are ignored, where rising attacks against them are encouraged, and where an emboldened Hindu majoritarian government is seizing its
It was a celebratory atmosphere for officials gathered just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves in the southern city of Mysuru, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Sunday to much applause that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown
Top UK brands are targeting a slice of India’s lucrative market for luxury goods, worth an estimated £4billion – with International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch saying Britain has a “huge opportunity” in the sector now that the shackles of Brexit have been