India

Several parts of India have been grappling with an intense heatwave as the country experiences one of the hottest summers this year. According to experts, the temperatures are expected to only increase during the next few days.

A massive fire broke out at Bhalswa landfill site in India's national capital New Delhi on Tuesday and continues to burn even now. This is not the first time that the infamous mountainous garbage dump caught fire releasing toxic smoke.

A video that has gone viral on social media brought a cruel tradition to light wherein a person gets every strand of hair pulled from her head by hand until they go bald. The tradition is followed by people who follow an ancient Indian religion called Jainism.

An Indian high court has now said that live-in relationships are responsible for a rise in sexual offences and for promoting "lascivious behaviour."

The sudden surge in COVID-19 cases has forced India's national capital, New Delhi, to bring back the mask mandate, weeks after the government made wearing masks voluntary.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accused India of stalling the health agency's efforts to revise the global Covid death toll after it reportedly pegged India's death toll at 4 million as against the official figure of 520,000

An Indian man who was seen in a viral video publicly threatening to kidnap and rape Muslim women has been arrested by the police in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

A Ukrainian mother fleeing war was left with no option but to scribble her family's contact details on her two-year-old daughter Vera's back.

A group of thieves posed as government officials to dismantle and steal parts of a 60-feet-long abandoned iron bridge in an Indian village near Bihar's Sasaram.

A recent order by the civic officials in India's capital New Delhi, ordering the closing down of meat shops in the city during the Hindu festival of Navratri, has sparked outrage in the country.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a rare video appearance has praised Muskan Khan, the student who had become the face of defiance against the hijab ban in the Indian state of Karnataka.

A police officer did not think twice before risking his own life to save a child when communal violence broke out in the Karauli area of the Indian state of Rajasthan on Saturday.

A Sociology textbook elaborating the "merits and advantages" of the dowry system has sparked a row in India with legislators, activists and social media users asking for its removal.

Kangaroos, a species native to Australia , was found in the Indian state of West Bengal, leaving officials in shock. The forest officials have called it a case of smuggling and have initiated a probe into the incident.

Massive stone jars that may have been used for ancient human burial practices thousands of years ago have been discovered in the Indian state of Assam.

An Indian techie named Nandan Kumar hacked an airline's website to locate his luggage after he accidentally switched it with a co-passenger's luggage on March 27.

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

In a landmark ruling, an Indian court on Friday refused to dismiss rape charges filed against a man by his wife stating that "a rape is a rape," and that marriage does not grant "special license to unleash a beast."

A two-month-old baby was found dead in an out-of-order microwave oven in India's capital New Delhi. The incident took place on Tuesday in the Chirag Delhi area of the city.

At least eight people were burnt alive following the death of a village leader in Rampurhat village of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.

The economic crisis faced by Sri Lanka is only worsening with each passing day, the country has now cancelled school exams for millions of students as it has run out of printing paper and ink

Former Tennis star Maria Sharapova and legendary F1 racer Michael Schumacher have been booked for fraud and criminal conspiracy on the basis of a complaint filed by a woman in India's Gurugram.

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

The ranger is reportedly the third victim that was mauled by the same tiger

The man was struck by a speeding motorcycle and declared dead in the hospital after showing no signs of life.

Many Indian children still experience violence at the hands of their own guardians.

The National Crime Bureau of India, as recently as 2017, recorded nearly 7,000 dowry linked deaths a year.

A doctor said such deformities occur in one in a million babies