BENGALURU—The CEO of an Indian AI startup has been arrested on suspicion that she murdered her four-year-old son after his body was found in her luggage, police said on Tuesday. Suchana Seth, who heads The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained in the Chitradurga district of Karnataka state when she […]
NEW DELHI—A government official in India has been suspended from his job after he ordered a water reservoir to be drained so he could retrieve his smartphone, which he had dropped while taking a selfie. Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped his Samsung smartphone in Kherkatta dam in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh last week, […]
NEW DELHI—Thirty-six bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people attending a festival fell into the muddy water when its cover collapsed, officials said Friday. Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people rushing […]
CAIRNS, Australia—An Indian national who was extradited from his homeland this week appeared in an Australian court on Friday charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found on an Australian beach more than four years ago. Rajwinder Singh, 38, appeared from a police cell by a video link in the Cairns Magistrates […]
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan said it had handed a list of its nuclear installations and facilities to the Indian mission in Islamabad on Sunday under a decades-old agreement between the two nuclear-armed rivals. The neighbours have fought three wars and have had a number of military skirmishes in recent years. Last year an Indian missile accidentally landed in […]
MORBI, India—Police in western India arrested nine people on Monday as they investigated the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge in one of the country’s worst accidents in years, officials said. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As families mourned the […]
LUCKNOW—Rescuers in northern India recovered 12 bodies of trainee mountaineers on Thursday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 from an avalanche in the Himalayas, the state-run Nehru Institute of Mountaineering said. Dozens of people participating in a training course run by the institute were caught up in the avalanche that swept down the slopes […]
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MUMBAI—Indian singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, better known as KK, died on Tuesday night after falling ill in the middle of a concert, local media reported. Kunnath was performing at a crowded indoor stadium in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata when he complained of uneasiness. He was rushed to a hospital, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported. […]
GAUHATI, India—At least 11 people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India’s remote northeast region, officials said Tuesday. Several railway stations were closed because of floods, said Nazreen Ahmed, a senior official in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. She said nearly 200,000 people in the district were cut off from the […]
BANGKOK—India’s power sector has been targeted by hackers in a long-term operation thought to have been carried out by a state-sponsored Chinese group, a U.S.-based private cybersecurity company detailed in a new report. Over the last several months, the Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it has collected evidence that […]
MUMBAI—Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet venture told its members on Tuesday the Indian government had asked the company to refund all its pre-orders until it receives licences to operate in the country. “As has always been the case, you can receive a refund at any time,” the company said in an email to […]
A British aerospace engineer claims to have found the final resting place of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 using revolutionary new tracking technology. Expert Richard Godfrey, a founding member of the non-government MH370 Independent Group, says he is confident that the plane crashed into the southern Indian Ocean 1,993 kilometers (1,238 miles) west of Perth and […]
NEW DELHI—Eleven patients died Saturday after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said. There were 17 patients in the ward in the city of Ahmednagar where the fire started, said police Inspector Jyoti Karkade. The remaining six patients are in stable condition, she added. […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal—Floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rains have killed at least 99 people in Nepal since Monday, officials said. In neighboring India, heavy downpours this week have also wreaked havoc, killing at least 88 people, while flooding roads, destroying bridges and causing landslides that washed away several homes. Police in Nepal said […]
India deployed soldiers to the Chinese border on Thursday for drills. Tensions have run high at the border between China and India since last year’s Galwan valley clash—a dispute that saw 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops killed.
The UK has banned Belarus’s national carrier from its airspace following the forced landing of a Ryanair passenger jet over the weekend. The government has advised people not to travel into and out of eight Indian variant hotspots. And the government is bringing forward plans to review the BBC’s governance in the wake of the […]
NEW DELHI—Indian navy ships recovered 26 bodies of people who were aboard a barge that sank off Mumbai as the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than two decades blew ashore this week, officials said Wednesday. The search is continuing for 49 more people who are missing after the cyclone hit Monday, […]
