A 28-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly throwing her toddler daughter and young nephew into a well following an argument with her husband, police said Sunday. The nephew drowned, while the daughter survived. Authorities initially treated the incident as...

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An Indian-origin mountaineer and his Nepalese Sherpa guide lost their lives in an overnight avalanche near Camp 3 on Mount Manaslu (8,163m), after the pair pushed on toward the summit while six fellow climbers turned back due to deteriorating weather, expedition...

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Iran has warned that any fresh military action by the United States and its allies would provoke “continuous, effective and painful” attacks on American bases and interests throughout West Asia, and cautioned that nations backing Washington would be...

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Voters in West Bengal who were dropped from the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) may end up waiting well over a decade to have their appeals heard, if the appellate tribunals set up on the Supreme Court’s orders continue working at...

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A postgraduate student in Mumbai, Harshada Borade, says members of the Bandra police’s anti-terrorism unit spent more than nine hours searching her home without presenting a warrant, and that her friends were mistreated during the raid. She said this followed...

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The 2013 Maoist attack on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh’s Jhiram Valley, which claimed 27 lives, was the result of a detailed conspiracy involving months of planning, route reconnaissance, cadre mobilisation and a mock rehearsal, according to a special...

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