A senior American official on Friday praised India for reducing oil imports from Iran and said the U.S. government will decide soon on New Delhi's request to renew a waiver from sanctions on Tehran.
By C.P. Chandrasekhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics and Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Cross posted...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart are discussing trade, regional stability, and a longstanding border dispute as Premier Li Keqiang continues his first foreign trip since taking office.
Mr. Li arrived in New...
By Jayati Ghosh, Professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates. Cross-posted from Triple Crisis.
Since her death, many eulogies of Thatcher have spoken...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.
Kabul's...
A man on trial over the fatal gang-rape of a woman in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in jail, just weeks after another defendant died in the same jail.
Four adults and a 17-year-old juvenile are accused of the gang...
NEW DELHI, India — Bangladesh police have arrested the leader of Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in the capital of Dhaka Sunday on charges of war crimes, police said.AKM Yusuf was charged with 15 crimes dating back to Bangladesh's 1971 war of...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - State-run Air India Ltd will resume flying its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner passenger jets from Wednesday, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Tuesday, almost four months after the planes were grounded due to safety concerns.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is set to go to prison next week after India's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition seeking a review of his earlier jail sentence for firearms offences during the Mumbai blasts 20 years ago.
Ujjwal Acharya tells a sad story of a Nepali migrant worker who was denied to board onwards by Air Arabia at Delhi airport because she did not have a return ticket. They did not offer any food or accommodation for 72 hours until she managed her fare...
NEW DELHI, India — When police in the north Indian state of Punjab announced the arrest of a grandfather for allegedly selling his infant grandson on Facebook, the news immediately went viral.But the real story is hidden behind the headline: The...
By Lindsey Swedic, the Communications Manager for Apne Aap International, the U.S. affiliate of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, which operates in the red light areas of Delhi, West Bengal and Bihar.
Samona* lives in a small, dark room in Sonagachi, the...
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NEW DELHI -- An official says up to 15 people are feared trapped after a hospital building partially collapsed in central India.Mayor Krishna Gaur says a rescue operation has been launched at the Kasturba Gandhi Hospital in Bhopal, the capital of...
A moderate earthquake hit Afghanistan Wednesday and its tremors were felt in Kabul, Islamabad and as far away as New Delhi.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.7-magnitude earthquake was 65 kilometers deep and struck 25 kilometers northwest of...
The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, has triggered fury on the streets of the capital, while police say they have arrested a second suspect.
The girl, who suffered serious internal injuries during her over 40 hour ordeal, is...
I had been told not to run in New Delhi. The air was bad. Run in the gym, friends suggested. Just don’t go outside. I had been given similar advice in Beijing, Tehran, Baghdad, Moscow, even New York — sometimes for the air quality, sometimes...
NEW DELHI (AP) — The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was raped, tortured and then left alone in a locked room for two days has improved, a doctor said, as protests continued in India's capital over the authorities' handling of the case.The girl...
