Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has taken to the pitch for his 200th and final Test, bidding farewell to his adoring public.
Following the Soviet Union, US and Europe in having a successful visit to Mars, India is gearing up to launch its first journey to the planet.
India has dispatched an unlikely hero to promote tuberculosis awareness and battle its stigma.
Forty-two passengers have died – many of them burned alive – after a bus crashed into a highway and erupted in flames in southern India.
As investors focus on current account deficits and structural weaknesses, South Africa is being seen as a less attractive emerging market.
More bodies of pilgrims have been recovered from a river after scores of victims were crushed to death in a stampede on a bridge in Ratangarh.
As the country sorts through the destruction left by a powerful cyclone over the weekend, India’s officials say they know of only 17 fatalities.
Cyclone Phailin cut a swathe of destruction across eastern India on Saturday, but loss of life was limited.
Phailin, the strongest storm to hit the region in 14 years, began to close in hazardously on India’s east coast early on Saturday.
South Africa cannot afford the luxury of Tests and rests if a cricket schedule is to be salvaged.
Ruling Congress party scion Rahul Gandhi’s rejection of a government decree to protect convicted lawmakers has "dropped a bomb" on India’s premier.
India successfully test-fired for a second time a nuclear-capable missile on Sunday that can reach Beijing and much of Europe.
An Indian court has sentenced the four men convicted in the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman to death by hanging.
Historian Faisal Devji unearths some unusual and unlikely links in South Asia’s fraught history.
India’s political parties have blamed each other for religious riots that killed at least 31 people and forced hundreds to flee from their homes.
A generic version of a key cancer drug is now available in South Africa, but at a significantly higher cost than it is available internationally.
Lawmakers have passed a bill to ban manual scavenging; the clearing of human waste from toilets, by workers known as the "ultimate untouchables".
The potholes in Raipur, a city of a million people in the centre of India, are so big they now have names.
Suicide bombers have targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing nine people and injuring 21 others.
India continues to use toxic pesticides that other nations are banning on health grounds.
Police have arrested the head of a school in India where 23 children died after eating a free meal laced with a pesticide, says an officer.
Police say samples of cooking oil and leftover food taken from an Indian school where 23 children died, were contaminated with pesticide.
Nobel laureate is scathing about the inequity of the country’s boom.
School children have been dumping the meals they get as part of a school feeding scheme in fear of poisoning after 22 children died on Tuesday.
Twenty children have now been confirmed dead after eating a free lunch at a primary school in eastern India, say officials.
A New Delhi court trying a teenager over a fatal gang-rape last December that shocked India deferred announcing the first verdict in the case.
Two weeks after the tragedy it is unclear how many of those missing have been killed, a top state official said o Sunday.
India’s priests are planning to cremate hundreds of flood victims as heavy rains halted the search for thousands of stranded tourists, say officials.
India added the Champions Trophy to the World Cup they won two years ago after seeing off England by five runs in a dramatic Champions Trophy final.
Relief teams have been racing against time to rescue tens of thousands of stranded people in rain-ravaged northern India.
An apartment block has collapsed in Mumbai’s outskirts, killing at least 10 in the latest incident to fuel concerns about the construction quality.
Monsoon flooding that has caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister says the toll could increase.