INDIA

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday.

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people has overturned and fallen into a pond in northern India

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children.

Most Asian countries are prioritizing keeping the country running, no matter the energy source

Most Asian countries are prioritizing keeping the country running, no matter the energy source.

A viral disease that is spread by insects like mosquitoes and ticks has killed at least 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened more than 2 million

A viral disease that is spread by insects like mosquitoes and ticks has killed at least 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened more than 2 million.

The ruling came after an unmarried woman in a consensual relationship was denied an abortion by a lower court in July.

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies.

Oracle has settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission after allegedly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for a second time.

The fallout from the controversial ending to the women’s one-day international series between England and India shows no sign of ending. India secured victory in the third ODI at Lord’s on Saturday — and thereby clinched the series 3-0 — when spinner Deepti Sharma stopped in her delivery stride to run out England’s Charlie Dean as she backed up at the non-striker’s end in readiness to run. This rare form of dismissal — known as a “Mankad” after Indian cricketer Vinoo Mankad, who first enacted it — is legitimate but is widely considered to be unsporting.

Apple usually manufactures older iPhone models in India. With the iPhone 14, Apple is manufacturing the latest model in its line-up near to the device's launch.

Suryakumar Yadav’s rapid half-century led India to a six-wicket win over Australia with one ball remaining in their Twenty20 decider for a 2-1 series victory. Yadav smacked 69 off 36 balls and put on 104 runs with Virat Kohli off 62 deliveries as India scored 187-4 in 19.5 overs. Kohli hit a 48-ball 63.

Congress needs to work on stopping China, not spend its time attacking America's homegrown tech industry. US innovation is driven by the private sector.

Protesters across Russia are voicing their disapproval of President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization order. Hundreds have been detained, one group said.

Hazardous weather has killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who died after being struck by lightning

The subcontinent’s divides are being globalized, spreading alienation, disinformation, radicalization and violence in their wake.

The South Asian nation is facing its worst economic crisis since independence from the UK in 1948.

Even leaders who tacitly supported Russia during the Ukraine invasion have issued Putin stinging rebukes, accentuating his global isolation.

The Miss Universe Organization says New Orleans will be the site of its 71st contest, drawing nearly 90 women contestants from around the world in January.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told a major international space conference that the possibility of cooperating with China in space is "up to China."

The president said there is still "a lot of work" being done to control the virus in the US.

Philippines, followed by Indonesia, stood out as the countries most vulnerable to India's rice export ban the ban, according to Nomura.

Gautam Adani's fortune lies somewhere between $147 billion and $152 billion, according to lists maintained by Forbes and Bloomberg.

Gautam Adani's fortune lies somewhere between $147 billion and $152 billion, according to lists maintained by Forbes and Bloomberg.

Parents of Indian YouTuber Kavya Yadav, known as "Bindass Kavya," announced that their daughter was missing before she was found by police.

Some people note the enslavement, violence and theft that defined British rule, and they find it difficult to distinguish the individual of Queen Elizabeth II from the institution of monarchy.

Virat Kohli recorded his first international hundred in nearly three years as India bowed out of the Asia Cup with a massive 101-run win over Afghanistan on Thursday. Kohli, who made his last international century in November 2019 during a test match against Bangladesh, hit a blistering unbeaten 122 off just 61 balls and anchored India to 212-2. Fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled one of best spells in Twenty20 cricket by grabbing 5-4 with his brilliant swing bowling upfront before Afghanistan reached 111-8 and gave India its second-biggest win ever in a T20 international.

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled.

Life for many in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru is disrupted after two days of torrential rains set off long traffic snarls, widespread power cuts and heavy floods that swept into homes and submerged roads

The riders fell about 50 feet, and multiple were injured, reports say.

The G-7 plans to impose a cap on Russian oil prices. China and India should join in, EU's energy chief Kadri Simson said.

While carriers are increasingly vulnerable to missiles, the ships are still widely seen as a symbol of national prestige and crucial for far-flung operations.

The 32-story and 29-story towers, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, were demolished after courts ruled they violated safety regulations.

Two high-rise apartment towers in India have been leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said.

Two high-rise apartment towers in India were leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition on Sunday after the country's top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. More than 1,500 families vacated their apartments in the area more than seven hours before the nearly 100-meter- (328 feet) tall towers crumbled inward by the impact of the implosion. “Largely, everything is OK,” said Ritu Maheshwari, a government administrator, after the demolition.

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.

Two British imams met an Iranian minister hours before the decree calling for the author’s death, was issued in 1989.

Tomato flu, which medical experts say is not considered life-threatening, gets its name from the painful red blisters that enlarge to the size of a tomato.

After years of reluctance, Delhi is signing several free trade deals. But will it help local businesses?

First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday in what her spokeswoman described as a rebound case.

Ani Di Franco has some life thoughts to share — for kids.

Pakistan had claimed that the missile violated its airspace, escalating tensions between the two countries.

Grandchildren of partition survivors on how stories about the traumatic event have affected them.

China and India have the potential to become world leaders in "clean" hydrogen, but the market is still in its infancy, said Jane Nakano, senior fellow at CSIS.

The rains inundated hundreds of villages, swept away mud houses, flooded roads and destroyed bridges.

The rains inundated hundreds of villages, swept away mud houses, flooded roads and destroyed bridges.

The rains inundated hundreds of villages, swept away mud houses, flooded roads and destroyed bridges.

The repeal of a colonial-era law will effectively legalise homosexuality in the conservative state.

At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the past three days, officials said Sunday.

At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the past three days

At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the past three days.

A high-ranking representative from the Biden administration is set next week to make his first official trip to India since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Chinese survey ship docked this week at the Hambantota port, built with Chinese loans. Some worry the ship's arrival may signal the start of militarization of Chinese infrastructure in Sri Lanka.

Dangerous heat waves could become longer and more frequent. Better warning systems and greener cities can help avert the worst.

The RBI wants digital loans to be less predatory and for credit risk to remain with regulated institutions.

Two former fraternity members were sentenced to six weeks in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of hazing-related misdemeanor counts in the death of a Bowling Green State University student last year.

Until this year, India was one of the fastest-growing markets for crypto assets. Then in April the government began to tax crypto transactions and volumes on local exchanges collapsed. The government presented the tax move as an opportunity to formalize the asset class. It also made crypto trading prohibitively expensive. The decision comes amid a drumbeat of criticism of the industry by government officials and regulators. Some of the most withering attacks have come from India’s central bank a

Dozens of women protested against the release of the men in the capital, New Delhi on Thursday.

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences.

A Chinese navy vessel has arrived at a Beijing-built port in southern Sri Lanka after its port call was earlier delayed due to apparent security concerns raised by India.

Landfills are releasing large amounts of planet-warming methane gas into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste and are a significant contributor to such emissions in urban areas, a study suggests.

The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other nations that had borrowed heavily from Beijing with debt restructuring, not just with lines of credit and emergency loans.

Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died.

Health officials say U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax.

The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year.

The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the United States.

A burgeoning form of resistance music laced with religious metaphors is fast taking wing in Kashmir, a disputed region divided between rivals India and Pakistan.

Fresh rain and falling boulders are hampering rescuers who have pulled out 26 bodies from the debris of a mudslide that wiped out a railroad construction site in India’s northeast.

About 1,200 Zoroastrians from 16 countries will be assessing their faith’s prospects during the four-day World Zoroastrian Congress that is opening in New York City.

India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.

The death toll from a mudslide in northeastern India has risen to 19, with over 50 people missing.

Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours has triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 others missing.

Authorities in India and Bangladesh are struggling to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries.

Army troops have been called in to rescue thousands of people stranded by massive floods that have ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links.

The U.N. climate chief has urged countries to keep up hope and focus on tackling global warming despite the many obstacles now to international cooperation.

Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars are in Abu Dhabi this weekend for the International Indian Film Academy awards.

India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to figures released Tuesday by the government.

Indian police are investigating the killing of a popular Punjabi rapper, who blended hip-hop, rap and folk music, a day after he was fatally shot.

For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall.

President Joe Biden will return back to Washington D.C. at 7:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow he will return to his domestic agenda.

A new study says pollution of all types is killing 9 million people a year.

The frequency and duration of droughts will continue to increase due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already affecting billions of people across the world, the United Nations warned in a report Wednesday.

A new report says there's nearly a 50-50 chance that world will hit a key warming threshold in the next five years.

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the first two years of the pandemic.

An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, where acute power shortages are affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record levels.

India’s hardline Hindu nationalists have long espoused an anti-Muslim stance, but attacks against the minority community have recently occurred more frequently.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to set aside his political troubles and focus on economic ties and the war in Ukraine during an official trip to India.

Authorities in India have used bulldozers to raze a number of Muslim-owned shops in New Delhi before the Supreme Court halted the demolitions.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is urging China to use its “special relationship with Russia” to persuade Russia to end the war in Ukraine.

India has begun giving COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults but is limiting free shots at government centers to front-line workers and people older than 60.

Negotiations between scientists and governments over a key United Nations climate report were going down to the wire Sunday.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street extended a rally into a third day on Thursday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has a commanding lead in crucial state polls, despite criticism of his government’s handling of the pandemic, soaring unemployment and farmer protests.

President Joe Biden and the prime ministers of India, Australia and Japan will talk Thursday in a virtual meeting of the Indo-Pacific alliance known as the Quad that comes a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Over the last decade, the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts has served the Latino population in the Bronx by hosting stars including José Feliciano, Gilberto Santa Rosa and La India, while attracting a wider audience with acts like Patti LaBelle and Smokey Robinson.

Members of the Philippines women's soccer team which recently qualified for its first World Cup have played down social media comments that most of the players with mixed American ancestry “were not Filipino enough.”.

Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, has died.