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A Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban and a Japanese author who writes about alienation and a fractured world are tipped as Nobel Prize winners.
Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik says he should be executed or acquitted after killing 77 people in what he said was a battle to defend Europe.
Thousands have gathered to support an anti-corruption social activist who has galvanized India against the government through a hunger strike.
Protests have swelled across India in support of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, and the government seems unable to end the standoff.
Mamata Banerjee railed against the Marxist Left Front, which has ruled West Bengal, one of India’s most politically important states, since 1977.
It may be a low-key campaign for 83 000 votes dotted around the globe, but an election of exiled Tibetans may ring in momentous changes.
Australia backed the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday but appeared a lone voice as pressure mounted on India to clean up the athletes village.
An Air India Express passenger plane from Dubai crashed outside an airport in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 160 people.
India has been granted a ”lifeline” after most Kashmiris voted in landmark elections.
India said it had handed over evidence on Monday that linked Pakistani militants to the Mumbai attacks, demanding a prompt investigation by Islamabad.
India’s ruling Congress Party on Thursday hailed US approval of a historic nuclear trade deal which will unleash billions of dollars of investment.
A young girl’s throat is slit in her bedroom. The father is arrested, injected with a ”truth serum”, held for 50 days and then released.
India might be painted as a pollution-spewing, global-warming economy of one billion people but it is also one of the world’s biggest wind power users, part of a focus on…
They challenge your newspaper literacy, interrupt otherwise intelligible conversations, and add to the difficulty of finding your way. The culprits: India’s endemic acronyms,…
As ski resorts go, Kashmir’s Gulmarg must rank as the most militarised on earth. The mountain road is peppered with security checkpoints and a High Altitude Warfare School lies…
Surrounded by throngs of Hindu pilgrims at India’s biggest religious gathering, holy man Kanhaiya Lal Maharaj says he has balanced a water pitcher on his head for 24 years and…
