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KOCHI/BENGALURU: The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have killed 164 people and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials said on Friday, with the toll expected to rise as heavy rain pushes water levels…

RAWALPINDI: The Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of Pakistan and India during a hotline contact have expressed satisfaction over the situation along the Line of Control and Working Boundary since last communication in May…

DHUBRI, INDIA: Riyazul Islam says he had to produce family documents going back to 1951 to prove he was an Indian and not an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant. But a draft list of citizens released in July excluded him and his mother, among…

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The rupee’s plunge to a record low has worried a wide cross-section of India’s society: companies, importers, those going on vacation and students planning to study overseas. But if the weakness persists, Prime Minister…

NEW DELHI: Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died on Thursday at a hospital in New Delhi where he had been undergoing treatment for a kidney ailment since June. Vajpayee was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday asked India to put its own house in order rather than accusing Pakistan and its intelligence agencies for every other happening. “India should grow up and stop blaming Pakistan for everything,” Foreign…

NEW DELHI: India’s foreign exchange reserves are comfortable by global standards and sufficient to mitigate any undue volatility in the foreign exchange market, the finance minister said on Wednesday, a day after the rupee currency sank to…

India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022 and roll out a health insurance scheme from September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

NEW DELHI: Torrential monsoon rains have disrupted air and train services in the southern Indian state of Kerala where flooding, landslides, house and road bridge collapses have killed more than 40 people in the past week, officials said…

NEW DELHI: India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, which could make it the fourth nation to do so after the United States, Russia, and China. In his last Independence Day…