India's dominant services industry grew faster than expected in August thanks to a solid expansion in demand and a continued easing in cost pressures, encouraging firms to hire at the quickest pace in more than 14 years, a private survey showed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India's first home-built aircraft carrier on Friday, underlining his government's efforts to boost domestic production to supply a military deployed on two contentious borders.
India's lower-than-expected economic growth in April-June is unlikely to alter the course for the Reserve Bank of India that is anchored to taming inflation with more rate hikes, analysts said.
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British prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak was seen performing a "Gau Puja" (cow worship) in London last weekend.
Human rights groups on Tuesday said UK intelligence agencies may have shared information with India that led to the arrest and torture of a Sikh blogger from Scotland.
India's e-commerce companies are adding delivery personnel at a rapid pace, fearing a labour shortage might cause them to lose out in one of the biggest annual shopping seasons that begins in earnest next month.
Indian banks have increased their fundraising activity through the issuance of certificates of deposits, as funding in the banking system continues to contract, analysts said.
A professor in India was forced to resign from her job at a prominent university for posting pictures of herself in a swimsuit on her Instagram account.
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A police officer's complaint about the "bad" quality of food has not gone down well with the Indian establishment.
India's consumer inflation dipped to 6.71% in July, easing for the third month in a row, helped by a slower increase in food and fuel prices and adding to expectations that the central bank may rein in the pace of its policy rate hikes next month.
An Indian man, who had gone to attend the last rites of his brother following the latter's death due to a snakebite, also died after being bitten by a snake.
A 30-year-old woman, Mandeep Kaur, who was abused by her husband brutally for eight years, allegedly died by suicide at her house in New York.
An elderly woman was found inside cardboard boxes on the side of a highway after being dumped by her family in Puebla, Mexico.
With just a few events to go on Monday, Australia lead the way with 66 golds, 11 ahead of hosts England.
It took Indian police more than 30 years to arrest the man wanted in connection with an alleged robbery and murder case.
Droupadi Murmu sworn in as India's first tribal president
A 26-year-old pregnant woman managed to deliver her baby minutes before she died after being mowed by a truck in the Firozabad city of Uttar Pradesh in India.
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