India

A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others.

Ratan Tata, a former chairman of India’s oldest conglomerate Tata Sons, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night. He was 86.

Dozens of children drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds in rituals that were part of a three-day Hindu festival in eastern India’s Bihar state, officials said.

Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive are waning as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day after landslides set off by torrential rains killed at least 194 people in southern India.

A ferry flight carrying Air India passengers from a diverted San Francisco-bound flight landed in the Bay Area Friday night. Pete Surtos reports.

A ferry flight carrying Air India passengers from a diverted San Francisco-bound flight landed in the Bay Area Friday night.

An Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to an airport in Russia after the pilots “detected a potential issue in the cargo hold area,” the airline said Thursday.

An Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco was diverted to an airport in Russia after the pilots “detected a potential issue in the cargo hold area,” the airline said Thursday.

Global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians are arriving in India’s financial capital to attend the wedding of the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, the world’s ninth richest man.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory Tuesday for his alliance in India’s general election, claiming a mandate to push forward with his agenda, even though his party lost seats to a stronger than expected opposition, which pushed back against his mixed economic record and polarizing politics.

Congress is looking into allegations of antibiotic-positive shrimp at a Choice Canning factory that supplies Walmart, Aldi and other supermarkets.

Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic was crowned Miss World at a glittering contest held in India on Saturday night.

It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he’s expecting famous people from around the world to attend a three-day bash in the family’s hometown.

Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months’ detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.

India’s top politicians, religious leaders and celebrities are gathering in the holy city of Ayodhya for the partial opening of a grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram.

The strange ordeal spotlighted a complicated migration situation that often sends trafficking victims through multiple countries before arriving at a final destination, such as the U.S.

Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit. Some leaders have voiced support for a target of tripling renewable energy worldwide in any final agreement while curbing use of coal, oil and natural gas, which spew planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.

Indian search and rescue teams reached the dozens of construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks.

Officials in India said Tuesday they had begun rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks.

Officials trying to save 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days are contemplating alternative rescue plans after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging. A new drilling machine arrived at the accident site in Uttarakhand state on Saturday to replace one that was damaged while breaking through the...