Two companies with major operations in India were the weak links that opened the door to a US$45 million global cyber heist brought to light by U.S. authorities this week.

Maoist rebels killed three policemen on Sunday during an overnight attack on a state-run broadcaster in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official told AFP.

Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday.

Italian prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly bribing a left-wing senator 3 million euros (US$3.9 million) to join his party.

At least 33 people died Wednesday when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road into a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said.

More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.

India and China withdrew troops Monday from a disputed area of the Himalayas after settling a border dispute, officials said, as the giant nuclear-armed neighbors took steps to ease tensions.

India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests.

As the Indian film industry turned 100 years old yesterday, here's looking at its different industries and their fascination for the “wood” suffix.

A Pakistani prisoner in India was in a coma Friday after being beaten by another inmate, officials said, a day after a convicted Indian spy died after being bludgeoned with a brick by fellow inmates at a Pakistani prison.