An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors. The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled Friday in favor of the woman, who argued that ...
The head of an Indian hospital where dozens of children died in recent days has been suspended, as officials traded blame over cash shortfalls that led to supplies of medical oxygen being cut. The government of Uttar Pradesh state, run by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata ...
India's lawmakers on Saturday elected a veteran leader from the ruling right-wing party as the country's next vice president, boosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political standing. Venkaiah Naidu, 68, secured 516 parliamentary votes to pip rival Gopalkrishna Gandhi — the 72-year-old grandson of Indian independence ...
The land of Abenomics is betting on "Modinomics." The demand is so strong that assets of Nomura Holdings Inc.'s India equity fund quadrupled to almost ¥400 billion ($3.6 billion) in just the past year. Japanese investors owned $13 billion of Indian stocks and bonds at the ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new goods and services tax is both messy and disruptive.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting India between Sept. 12 and 14, it has been learned. Abe is expected to hold a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend a ceremony related to India's high-speed railway project, which uses Japan's shinkansen technology, ...
The U.S. administration has told India that Westinghouse Electric Co. will emerge from bankruptcy and be sold by the year end, industry and diplomatic sources have said, raising the prospect of a Washington-supported sale or bailout for the nuclear firm. India, like other nuclear nations, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arranging to visit India in late September to attend a ceremony for a high-speed rail link using Japanese bullet-train technology, government sources said Wednesday. During the visit, Abe is expected to serve as "top salesman" for the adoption of shinkansen ...
Hugging outside the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi heralded an increasingly close strategic partnership as the U.S. branded a top militant from neighboring Pakistan as a "global terrorist." Trump declared he was "true friend" of India and ...
President Donald Trump called on Monday for the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs to be "rapidly" tackled, as he thanked visiting Indian leader Narendra Modi for rallying behind sanctions on Pyongyang. "The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and ...
The Diet on Wednesday endorsed the controversial Japan-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement that will allow the nation’s firms to export nuclear materials and technology to India for nonmilitary use.
India launched a communication satellite using its most powerful rocket on Monday, improving its prospects of winning a bigger share of the more than $300 billion global space industry and its hopes of a manned mission. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk III, or ...
