Ammu Kannampilly

A massive power failure has hit India for the second day running as three regional power grids collapsed, blacking out more than half the country.

A massive power cut has blacked out northern India, leaving more than 300-million people without power in the worst outage in a decade.

India has built a reputation as a major player in information technology, but lack of internet access is posing a threat to long-term growth.

Transgender Indians save up money every year to buy beautiful new wedding dresses for a festival at which they get married to a Hindu god.

Once a week, Santosh Kumar uses Skype to teach maths to children in Chamanpura, a poor village in the struggling state of Bihar.

Authorities in New Delhi on Wednesday ordered dozens of buildings to be evacuated near a five-storey residential block.