Bappa Majumdar

Thousands of Aids patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the syndrome.

The fate of BlackBerry’s encrypted email and messaging services in India will be decided in last-ditch talks starting on Thursday.

A speeding passenger train crashed into another waiting at a station in eastern India early on Monday, killing 49 people and injuring about 100.

Maoist rebels sabotaged a train in India on Friday that killed at least 65 people after it derailed and smashed into the path of a goods train.

The Tibetan government-in-exile said on Tuesday it was willing to talk to China after Barack Obama called for resumption of dialogue.

India and the US began a massive joint military exercise on Monday, underscoring their deepening security ties they view as crucial in South Asia.

Indian officials said on Friday they were in contact with Israel after a report said Jerusalem had an intelligence tip-off about a planned attack.

The lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in November pleaded guilty in court on Monday, police said.

India’s politicians contesting in the general election, fearful of shoes hurled at them by disgruntled voters, have asked for more security.

India’s powerful communists face their toughest vote yet in West Bengal as farmers rebel over policies to industrialise the region.

India expects to triple trade with Africa over the next five years to reach -billion, officials said on Wednesday.

In a government morgue in Mumbai lie the bodies of nine Islamist militants responsible for killing 179 people in a bloody attack on Mumbai.

India accused Pakistan on Monday of trying to shift blame for last month’s Mumbai attacks and demanded it do more to dismantle militant networks.

Police officers trawled slums in India’s capital on Sunday rounding up suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 20.

Thousands of angry Tibetans staged anti-China protests in the capitals of India and Nepal on Thursday, with hundreds detained by police in Kathmandu.