Forty five whales have died after stranding themselves on a southern Indian beach, a government official said Tuesday, with local fishermen struggling to save others.
A video secretly filmed by an Indian man -- apparently showing his wife beating his elderly mother -- has gone viral and led police to arrest the wife.
An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the country's security forces on a visit to Pathankot air force base Saturday, one week after a militant attack left seven soldiers dead.
India has lifted a ban on a popular but controversial bull running festival, angering animal rights activists who say it is cruel and abusive.
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, chief minister of India's restive Kashmir region and one of the country's best-known Muslim politicians, died on Thursday.
The Indian army and police launched a search operation Wednesday near Pathankot where a weekend attack on an air force base left seven soldiers dead, after villagers complained about two suspicious men in the area.
Maharashtra schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade rewrote the record books, hammering an epic 1009 not out in an inter-school cricket tournament to register the highest individual score in an innings.
The hijacking of an Indian police officer's car by gunmen disguised in uniform should have set off alarm bells and helped prevent a deadly weekend attack on a military air base, officials and security experts said.
Indian security forces were working to carefully defuse grenades in the final stages of an operation to secure a vast air base near the border with Pakistan.
At least eight people were killed and scores injured when a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets.
Explosions and gunfire rang out late Sunday as militants tried to storm the Indian diplomatic mission in a northern Afghan city, officials said, in the latest assault on an Indian installation.
