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Two dozen people have been brought to hospital for treatment

Two dead, 35 injured as India passenger train derails

An Indian passenger train has derailed and overturned several of its cars, killing at least two people and injuring 35 others with rescue and relief efforts ongoing.

World • 18 Jul 24

Around 250,000 people attended the event, according to the police report

At least 121 killed in stampede at India religious event

The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu religious congregation in northern India has risen to 121, and police said the number of people present was more than triple the permitted capacity.

World • 03 Jul 24

Police are seen outside a hospital where mourners have gathered in Hathras in India's Uttar Pradesh state

At least 116 killed in stampede at India religious event

At least 116 people, many of them women and children, have been killed in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in north India, authorities have said, in one of the country's worst such tragedies in years.

World • 03 Jul 24

The site of the collision between an express passenger train and a goods train

Railway collision in eastern India kills 15

A freight train has smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal.

World • 17 Jun 24

Narendra Modi took the oath of office at a ceremony at the president's palace

India's Modi sworn in as prime minister for third term

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India's prime minister for a third term, after a shock poll setback that will test his ability to ensure policy certainty in a coalition government in the world's most populous nation.

World • 09 Jun 24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pursues Hindu-first politics

Modi: Tea seller's son who became India's populist hero

Once shunned and now eagerly courted by the West, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has steered his country away from its secular traditions and towards the Hindu-first politics he has championed for decades.

World • 05 Jun 24

Supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) hold cut-outs of Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in Amritsar

What a third term for India's Modi means for the world

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term in power, leading a country with the world's biggest population and fastest-growing economy.

World • 04 Jun 24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating at BJP headquarters after the party's win in India's general election

Modi wins India vote despite losing parliament majority

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political alliance won the country's weeks-long general election, but the opposition said voters had sent a clear message after his Hindu nationalist party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in a decade.

World • 04 Jun 24

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third consecutive term

Over 100 million Indians vote in final phase of elections

India has voted in the final phase of a long-drawn general election, held in record summer heat in many parts, as both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his challengers said they would win the polls centred mostly on inequality and religion.

World • 01 Jun 24

A mahout rides his elephant along a street on a hot summer day in Jaipur

Election officials among 33 dead in Indian heatwave

At least 33 people, including election officials on duty, have died of suspected heatstroke in India's states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, with the heatwave in the region expected to continue until tomorrow, authorities have said.

Weather • 31 May 24

Children run behind a truck spraying water along a street in New Delhi amid record temperatures

India's record temperature reading may be sensor 'error'

India's government-run weather bureau has said a station measurement showing a potentially record-breaking temperature in the capital may have been due to a fault in the measuring equipment.

Climate Change • 29 May 24

More than 300 people were in the two-storey structure when the fire broke out

At least 24, mostly children, killed in India fire

At least 24 people have been killed, most of them children, when a fire broke out at an amusement park arcade in India, officials said.

Asia • 26 May 24

Women stand in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Saroi village, Bhadohi district in India's Uttar Pradesh state

India's massive election faces heatwave challenge

Two top rivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who accuse his government of targeting them in unjustified criminal probes cast their votes in New Delhi today as the country's six-week election resumed.

World • 25 May 24

The giant billboard collapsed during a thunderstorm

At least 14 killed after billboard collapses in Mumbai

At least 14 people were killed and 75 others were injured after a billboard bigger than an Olympic swimming pool fell on them during a thunderstorm in India's financial capital Mumbai, authorities said.

World • 14 May 24

Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed on the grounds of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple

Canada arrests three over killing of Sikh activist

Canadian police have arrested three men over the killing last year in Vancouver of a Sikh separatist, whose death has been linked to the Indian government.

World • 04 May 24

Women voters wait in a queue to cast their votes outside a polling station in Banihal, India

Indians vote in huge election dominated by Hindu pride

A substantial number of Indians voted in the first phase of the world's largest election, authorities said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term on the back of issues such as growth, welfare and Hindu nationalism.

World • 19 Apr 24

Tesla chief Elon Musk said he will visit India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month

Tesla's Musk set to announce India investment plans

Tesla chief Elon Musk said he will visit India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and two sources told Reuters the billionaire entrepreneur is expected to make an announcement on investment and a factory in the country.

Business • 11 Apr 24

Apple now makes as much as 14% or about one in seven of its marquee devices from India, a new report suggests

Apple's India iPhone output hits $14 billion - report

Apple has assembled $14 billion worth of iPhones in India in fiscal 2024, Bloomberg News reported today.

Business • 10 Apr 24

India, the world's most populous country is among the best-performing economies thanks to robust domestic demand and investment

India's economy grew 8.4% in latest quarter

India's economy grew by 8.4% in the December quarter, official data showed today, with a surging manufacturing sector helping defy more modest analyst forecasts.

Business • 29 Feb 24

Inflation in India hit 5.69% in December 2023, higher than November's 5.55%, and well above the central bank's target of 4%.

India's central bank holds rates, vows to cut inflation

India's central bank kept interest rates unchanged for a sixth time in a row today, as both inflation and economic growth remain high in the world's fifth-largest economy.

Business • 08 Feb 24

Sony Group has scrapped plans for a $10 billion merger between its Indian unit and Zee Entertainment

Sony ends $10bn deal to merge India assets with Zee

Japan's Sony Group has today scrapped plans for a $10 billion merger between its Indian unit and Zee Entertainment, which said it had been accused of breaching their agreement and that the case was set to go to arbitration.

Business • 22 Jan 24

Mixed signs on the strength of China's economy is clouding the outlook for Asia's fragile recovery

Asia factory activity remains weak in November

Asia's factory activity remained weak in November on soft global demand, surveys showed today, with mixed signs on the strength of China's economy clouding the outlook for the region's fragile recovery.

Business • 01 Dec 23

Indian rescuers safely brought out all 41 workers from the collapsed tunnel

'Like brothers': How the tunnel workers stayed hopeful

Hope that they would be rescued soon kept workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India strong through their 17-day ordeal, some of the men said after their rescue.

World • 29 Nov 23

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, centre, with a rescued worker inside the tunnel

All 41 workers trapped in Indian tunnel freed

Indian rescuers have safely brought out all 41 workers from a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel after a marathon 17-day engineering operation to free them, a minister has said.

World • 28 Nov 23

41 men have been trapped underground for nearly two weeks

Final push to free trapped Indian tunnel workers

Just a few metres of rock and earth separate Indian rescue teams from 41 workers who have been trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks, officials said, adding they were optimistic of success within hours.

World • 24 Nov 23