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Aditya Vikram Birla, the chairman of the $2.3-billion Birla Group and an advocate of expanding Indian economic activity abroad, died Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications arising […]

After centuries of isolation, many communities in India's remote northeast are facing sweeping changes and ethnic violence that threaten their way of life. The changes and choices are stark and [...]

Though India may be a land with a high-technology future, American computer companies are flocking to a city in the south of the country in large part to enjoy the […]

A speeding passenger train called the Pureshotham Express smashed into the back of another train that had stalled after hitting a cow in Northern India last week. It was the […]

The authorities in India were searching today for the signalman who fled his post after allowing a train onto a track where another train was stopped, leading to a collision [...]

About 300 people were killed and more than 400 were injured early today when a speeding passenger train in northern India plowed into another train that had stalled after hitting […]

The anti-India Kashmiri rebels who are holding four Western hostages today extended a deadline for their slaying by one day, officials here said. The original deadline was today, India's Independence […]

A little-known separatist group's killing of a Norwegian hostage and its threat to kill four other Westerners were condemned today by other groups advocating Kashmir's independence from India. 'This is […]

When the world's most beloved Buddhist monk, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who lives in exile with tens of thousands of followers in India, celebrated his 60th birthday with three […]

The Chinese Government has expressed disapproval over a three-day 60th birthday party for the Dalai Lama here last week at which the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader spoke out […]

For the first time since the 1980's, Indian and Burmese troops have been cooperating in a military operation against Indian insurgents, trapping the rebels in a pincers movement near the […]

The Indian Government, concerned over potential violence in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, has bowed to widespread opposition and decided against carrying out its plans for elections there, a […]

India says it will seek to block American access to medicinal plants and other biological material from the third world unless the United States ratifies the international Biodiversity Convention by [...]

Denouncing a 45-year-old friendship treaty with India as obsolete, the Marxist Prime Minister of Nepal, on his first official visit to its giant neighbor, has demanded a major review of […]

Morarji Desai, a crusty puritan who sprang from obscurity and imprisonment to become the Prime Minister of India's first non-Congress Party Government in 1977 and to usher in some of […]

Hindu right-wing governments took office today in the industrially developed Western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, redrawing India's political map and underlining the growing isolation of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha […]

Six months after pneumonic plague struck the western Indian city of Surat, top officials from the World Health Organization and the Indian Government said today that they were still baffled […]

Right-wing Hindu parties appeared to be beating the governing Congress Party today in important state legislature elections in two western Indian states that had long been Congress strongholds. The elections, […]

On his first visit to the Indian subcontinent, the Russian nationalist leader, Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky, was strongly criticized by Pakistan and Bangladesh today for remarks in which he said that […]

Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao and his governing Congress Party, shaken by political defeats in southern India and a revolt within the party, are facing another important test as […]

Bombs exploded today in a passenger train carrying Indian troops in a remote northeastern region of the country, killing at least 25, reports from the area said. Officials in the […]

Hoping to ease tensions and stem a tide of illegal Bangladeshi migrants into the northeastern state of Assam, Indian officials have shifted from supporting a crackdown on the settlers to […]

As an orange dollop of a sun began to set over the dunes of the Thar Desert, Bhagwan Singh Sodha leaned back on a chair outside his house and glumly […]

Zail Singh, who was born to a poor peasant family but rose to become the first Sikh to win India's largely ceremonial office of President in 1982, died yesterday in […]

Ten years after a blanket of lethal gases from a Union Carbide pesticide plant swamped this central Indian city as it slept, Ram Singh Thakur, a former drugstore clerk, lies […]

THE stench of chemicals, leather, rotting flesh and stale air overwhelms visitors to Jajmau, a neighborhood on the edge of Kanpur, home to 175 tanneries on the southern bank of […]

India's diamond exporters are seeking a bigger role in an international market that they entered only 30 years ago. India has held between 42 and 45 percent of the world […]

At a bustling little market on the edge of the diplomatic enclave, foreign window shoppers and serious buyers in sunglasses, shorts and T-shirts stroll in the summer heat, glancing at […]

In the Himalayan foothills, where forests of pine, silver oak and deodar have flourished for centuries, unarmed forest guards are battling development and timber gangs. Sometimes, nature seems to work […]

The central bank of India has issued fines of roughly $42 million to 10 foreign banks, including Citibank, Bank of America, American Express Bank Ltd. and Standard Chartered Bank, accusing […]

The teacher sat down and surveyed his class: 17 officials of the Indian Administrative Service, the country's elite bureaucracy, men and women with 12 to 15 years of experience in […]

The assassination of an influential Muslim cleric in Kashmir has drawn angry protests and prompted an investigation by pro-independence religious and political leaders. At the funeral on Tuesday for the […]

A bluish haze hangs over the Indian capital these blistering days when temperatures hover around 114 degrees and vehicles crawl bumper to bumper in rush hour, emitting diesel fumes, lead, […]

The police across Bangladesh are scouring the country for an outspoken woman writer who is in hiding after Muslim clerics said she should be put to death for blaspheming Islam. […]

In the soothing moments after the glow of dawn comes over the nearby Himalayan hills, bells begin to ring gently at Hindu temples. The chant of prayers and the sweet […]

The comparatively low death toll in the huge storm that whipped across parts of southeastern Bangladesh on Monday night with winds of up to 180 miles an hour was attributed […]

EVERY day, Arvinder Singh Brar raises his binoculars to scan the sky above the wetlands here, India's best-known bird sanctuary, and swings them across the ponds, marshes and acacia tree […]

India's Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh, proposed more measures today aimed at increasing foreign investment in India and speeding up a sluggish industrial growth rate. The measures include tax cuts for […]

SINCE November, one of the world's hottest stock markets has been the Bombay Stock Exchange, thanks to an avalanche of foreign investment and the gradual opening of what was once […]

The record profits posted today by Air-India, this country's international carrier, came despite a nagging problem that irritates the airline's officials and passengers alike: frequent flight rescheduling caused by the […]

Hundreds of battle-hardened Afghan rebels have slipped into Jammu and Kashmir, the northern state, and are fighting alongside local Muslim separatists and raising the level of the insurgency against Indian […]

A dozen men, women and children, some Hindu, some Muslim, huddled in a tiny room and spoke of the fear that haunts the slum neighborhood of Tulsiwadi even as it […]

After a recent wave of flooding that killed about 2,000 people in South Asia, Bangladesh has renewed demands that India and Nepal control the powerful rivers that flow though their […]

This former British hill station, where British officials and their families recovered from the rigors of the blistering Indian summer, is struggling to hold on to its traditions in the […]

When guerrillas ambushed a military convoy in the Northeast of India recently, killing more than 25 soldiers, they signaled a resurgence of their 40-year campaign for independence. After decades of […]

India said today that it would develop powerful rocket technology that it says it has been denied as a result of an accord between Washington and Moscow. 'The Government of […]

Guerrillas of the Naga tribe in India's northeast ambushed an Indian Army convoy today and killed at least 32 people in one of their biggest strikes against a military target, […]

An Indian stockbroker who says he made an illegal payment of $300,000 to Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao has accused the Indian Government of mounting a 'massive' cover-up to […]

Three days after a Bombay stockbroker stunned many Indians by saying he had paid a $300,000 bribe to Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, the governing Congress Party rallied today […]

A powerful Indian financier, who is the main figure in a billion-dollar banking and securities scandal, said today that he had paid a bribe of more than 10 million rupees, […]