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I will not marry: India’s Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: The scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, Rahul Gandhi, who is seen as a leading contender to be the country’s next prime minister, has

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Indian woman on 12-year hunger strike charged

NEW DELHI: Irom Sharmila has not eaten a meal in 12 years. The 40-year-old woman has been on a hunger strike — and force fed through a tube by authorities

India’s hardliner Modi lashes out at Congress

NEW DELHI: India´s hardline nationalist politician Narendra Modi launched a stinging attack Sunday on the ruling Congress party, setting the stage for a pitched political battle in general elections next

A look at India’s Kumbh Mela festival

ALLAHABAD, India: Once every 12 years, tens of millions of Indians gather for one of Hinduism’s holiest celebrations at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythic Saraswati rivers.

Fire at illegal market In India kills at least 18

KOLKATA, India: A fire broke out at an illegal six-story plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata early Wednesday morning, killing at least 18 people, police said. The blaze,

Five years on, no justice for British teen raped in India

NEW DELHI: The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India´s “rubbish” legal system over the

Rape and killing of 3 young sisters shocks India

NEW DELHI:  Police say investigators are searching villages in western India for suspects in the rape and killing of three youngsisters. The killing of the girls aged 7, 9 and

Britain to India: Diamond in royal crown is ours

AMRITSAR, India: British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that was set in a royal crown will

British premier lays wreath at India massacre s

NEW DELHI: Britain’s prime minister laid a mourningwreath Wednesday at the site of a notorious 1919 massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces, calling the killings “ashameful event

Britain and India to agree cyber crime joint taskforce

MUMBAI: Britain and India are expected to agree to set up a joint task force to fight cyber crime on Tuesday, a move London hopes will help it safeguard the