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CORRECTION APPENDEDMUMBAI, India -- Dheeraj Dixit used to make $2 a day snapping photographs of the tourists milling around the Gateway of India, the imposing monument at the southern tip [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Parliament passed a comprehensive bill on Thursday to impose stronger penalties on men who attack women and to criminalize offenses like stalking and voyeurism. The bill [...]

NEW DELHI -- A Swiss tourist on a cycling tour with her husband was raped by four men on Friday night in Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state famed for [...]

NEW DELHI -- The case of a fatal gang rape aboard a bus here in December, which set off an uproar across India, took a surprising turn on Monday when [...]

NEW DELHI -- One of the men accused in a Delhi gang rape case was found dead in his jail cell on Monday morning, a jail official said. The man, [...]

NEW DELHI -- The death toll from Thursday's explosions in Hyderabad, India, rose on Friday to 16 people, as new information about India's deadliest bombing since 2011 suggested the attacks [...]

NEW DELHI -- Two bombs on Thursday killed at least 13 people and wounded about 70 in a busy shopping district in the southern city of Hyderabad at the height [...]

The trial of five men accused in the gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in New Delhi is being watched closely as a symbol of India's [...]

NEW DELHI -- For Sonia Gandhi, India's most powerful politician, the 23-year-old victim of the fatal gang rape last month ''embodied the spirit of an aspirational India.'' ''We will ensure,'' [...]

NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India on Tuesday made what may be one of his most aggressive public statements ever about Pakistan, saying that renewed hostilities between [...]

NEW DELHI - A 29-year-old woman was raped over the weekend by a bus driver, a conductor and five other men in the northern Indian state of Punjab, the police [...]

MEDAWARA KALAN, India -- The village of Medawara Kalan lies down a one-lane dirt track, past mustard fields, thatched-roof huts and piles of neatly stacked cow dung patties, dried to [...]

The male friend of a woman who died after being gang-raped and sexually assaulted with an iron rod in New Delhi described the attack for the first time publicly in [...]

NEW DELHI -- Neha Kaul Mehra says she was only 7 years old the first time she was sexually harassed. She was walking to a dance class in an affluent [...]

NEW DELHI -- The body of a young woman who was raped in New Delhi this month by several men in a moving bus was brought home Sunday, a day [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW DELHI -- The idea was, and still is, captivating: in 2011, the Indian government and two Indian-born tech entrepreneurs unveiled a $50 tablet computer, to be built in [...]

NEW DELHI -- As protests grew in India on Saturday over the death of a young woman who was raped in New Delhi this month by several men in a [...]

NEW DELHI -- Government officials appealed for calm in the streets here Saturday after the death of young woman who was raped two weeks ago by a group of men [...]

NEW DELHI- Protests over a recent gang rape quickly gained force over the weekend, tapping into longstanding fury against entrenched corruption and lopsided justice, and leading to clashes with the [...]

As the Playboy Club gets set to open in Goa this winter, its first venture in India, one pressing question keeps cropping up: What, exactly, will the bunnies wear? (Yes, [...]

NEW DELHI -- In their second major effort in two months to revive a flagging economy, Indian policy makers on Thursday proposed letting foreign investors take a bigger stake in [...]

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A small plane carrying 19 people to the Mount Everest region crashed soon after takeoff here on Friday after striking a bird, killing everyone onboard, officials said. [...]

NEW DELHI - Suddenly, everything in the sprawling empire of Vijay Mallya seems to be up for sale. Mr. Mallya took over a sleepy family business when he was 27 [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's successful test on Thursday of a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead is the latest escalation of an arms race in Asia, where [...]

NEW DELHI -- The couple accused of abusing a 13-year-old maid and locking her in their apartment while they went on vacation, a story that has renewed attention on the [...]

NEW DELHI -- Salman Rushdie's plans to speak publicly in India are stirring controversy yet again. The author, whose 1988 novel ''The Satanic Verses'' is banned in India and has [...]

MUMBAI -- Time seems to be running out for Kingfisher Airlines, the Indian carrier that is struggling with a large debt and has delayed paying taxes to the government and [...]

JAIPUR, India -- At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called ''the greatest literary show on earth,'' the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. [...]

NEW DELHI -- Many of India's airlines are rife with safety violations, according to an unreleased report by the industry's top regulator here. Most of the airlines in India -- [...]

THE HAGUE -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses on Thursday to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet [...]

MURKY ACCOUNTING By playing down its exposure to European sovereign debt, MF Global lost credibility in the market and eventually got hammered as fears over possible bond defaults rose. More [...]

NEW DELHI -- Star Alliance, a global network of airlines that caters to frequent international travelers, said Monday that Air India's pending membership had been suspended. The move throws into [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Ford Motor Company plans to invest almost $1 billion in northwest India, building factories to make nearly a quarter of a million cars a year, company [...]

NEW DELHI -- Sex between two men is ''completely unnatural,'' India's health minister told rural leaders during a conference this week about H.I.V. and AIDS, drawing outrage from gay rights [...]

NEW DELHI -- Air India, India's unprofitable national carrier, is using ''coercion and fear'' to compel pilots to fly long hours and while ill, an Indian pilots' union claims. The [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's central government, convulsed by a series of corruption scandals, is under increasing pressure to deal with the potentially conflicting challenges of rising inflation and slowing growth. [...]

NEW DELHI -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde promised Tuesday to support emerging markets so wholeheartedly that a little part of her ''would turn Indian'' if she were elected head [...]

Career prospects can look dim these days for young American lawyers. Top American firms have cut hiring or moved to a lower-tier pay system for many new associates. Corporations are [...]

NEW DELHI -- Air India, the troubled state-owned airline, risks being rejected by the Star Alliance network of airlines because of delays in fulfilling membership conditions, an executive from Star [...]

NEW DELHI -- When Bob Haygooni paid a midflight visit to a cockpit at his new employer, Air India, he was shocked. The pilots, he said, had completely covered the [...]

NEW DELHI -- India spends more on programs for the poor than most developing countries, but it has failed to eradicate poverty because of widespread corruption and faulty government administration, [...]

NEW DELHI -- More than a dozen commercial pilots in India have been stripped of their licenses and a top airline safety official has been suspended after a government investigation [...]

NEW DELHI -- Besides political protests, India's nuclear energy ambitions face another big roadblock, critics say: a shortfall of trained people to run, repair and regulate power plants. If it [...]

NEW DELHI -- A remotely detonated bomb killed a moderate Muslim cleric in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Friday, as he was entering a mosque to lead afternoon prayer, setting off widespread [...]

NEW DELHI -- When the British mobile phone giant Vodafone bought an Indian wireless company for $11 billion in 2007, the chief executive at the time, Arun Sarin, praised the [...]

NEW DELHI - The billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett capped off a weeklong visit to India by doing one of the things he does best, after investing - doling out [...]

NEW DELHI -- India is behind only the United States and China in its number of billionaires. But by global standards, its charitable giving is miserly. A few wealthy American [...]

NEW DELHI -- Despite Japan's crisis, India and China and some other energy-ravenous countries say they plan to keep using their nuclear power plants and building new ones. The Japanese [...]

GANDHINAGAR, India -- In a soaring, unfinished conference hall in western India, thousands of businessmen and diplomats from around the world gathered recently for an investment meeting. They were there [...]

BANGALORE, India -- Nearly two years ago, President Obama rankled many people here when he said that American tax law unfairly benefited companies that created jobs in Bangalore and punished [...]