At least 158 people are feared dead after an Air India Express passenger jet crashed while landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore on a flight from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Mangalore is a coastal city, around 320km west of Bangalore, the main city of Karnataka state.
Air India Express is a budget airline [...]
India has sentenced to death the only surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks on the city of Mumbai.
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab will be executed by hanging if the sentence, which was handed down on Thursday, is confirmed by a higher court.
The 22-year-old Pakistani national covered his face with hands and wept when the sentence was [...]
An Indian court has convicted Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 22, of taking part in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Kasab was found guilty on all charges against him on Monday, including “waging war against the state,” which could carry the death penalty.
Two Indians, accused of providing the attackers with maps of Mumbai, were acquitted by the court [...]
Indian police have increased security around a New Delhi court before the expected verdict in the trial of a Pakistani man accused of killing scores of people during the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
22-year-old Mohammed Ajmal Kasab is allegedly one of the ten armed men who killed 166 people in a three-day assault on the [...]
The head of India’s Premier League cricket has been suspended amid allegations of corruption in the country’s most lucrative sport.
Lalit Modi is being investigated over accusations of money-laundering and match-fixing in the tournament.
Modi’s suspension followed days of mounting speculation over his future and was announced just hours after the IPL’s dramatic showpiece final on Sunday, [...]
Russia is to build 12 nuclear reactors in India, half of them by 2017, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced.
Sergei Kiriyenko, speaking in the Indian capital New Delhi on Friday, said six of the reactors will be built between 2012 and 2017.
“So far it is clear that it will be 12 [...]