Indian police Sunday said they had arrested a key terror suspect of the home-grown Islamist militant group the Indian Mujahideen, blamed for a string of deadly attacks across the country in recent years. The arrest comes as India is on high security…
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India on Saturday said a bitter row over the US arrest and strip-search of an Indian consulate official had triggered a “mini-crisis” in bilateral relations and much more must be done to repair ties. Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid’s remarks…
India’s car sales fell almost 10 percent year-on-year in 2013 in the first decline for 11 years, an industry body said Thursday, amid sluggish economic growth and higher fuel costs and interest rates. Annual domestic car sales, seen as a pointer to…
Indian rescuers were racing on Sunday to try to save up to 20 people still feared trapped in the ruins of a partially-constructed building that collapsed “like a pack of cards”. Rescuers have so far pulled 13 bodies from the residential building that…
India has cancelled a 556-million-euro ($753 million) contract with Anglo-Italian firm AgustaWestland to buy luxury helicopters for VIPs following a corruption scandal, the Press Trust of India reported Wednesday. The deal was scrapped after Defence…
India on Sunday marks 12 months since the death of a student savagely gang-raped on a Delhi bus — an episode that sparked nationwide protests — with candle-light vigils and prayers. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 29 last year…
India’s biggest Bitcoin trading platform said on its website Friday it had suspended operations after the central bank warned against the risks of using virtual money. BuySellBitCo.in closed its platform, citing an advisory by the Reserve Bank of India…
An Indian owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced on Thursday after the discovery that a photo of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid hero. The billboard was erected on the side of a road in the…
India wants to ensure the furore over the arrest and strip-search of a female diplomat in New York does not do lasting harm to its “valuable relationship” with the US, its foreign minister said Thursday. “I can’t believe that either side wants to put…
India on Tuesday launched a series of reprisals against the US over a diplomat’s arrest in New York, including pulling identity cards for American consular officials in the country, foreign ministry sources said. “We have ordered the withdrawal of all…