India's industrial output growth hit a six-month high of 5.2% year-on-year in November helped by a strong rise in output of consumer durables and capital goods, government data showed on Friday.

A survivor of a coal mine disaster in India has shared a harrowing account of the moments after the tunnel was suddenly engulfed by water. Ravi Rai was working in the mine in the north-eastern state of Assam on Monday morning when water entered the pit.

The only reason given was Francis Xavier.” Jesuits in India spread agricultural knowledge, popularised the printing press and set up schools. The most recent census, in 2011, found that 2.3% of Indians are Christians—roughly 32m people today,

The Bharat Climate Forum — a national platform dedicated to unifying stakeholders from policy, industry, finance, and research to accelerate cleantech manufacturing in India — was launched on Friday.

TCS CEO K Krithivasan told reporters in a post-earnings press conference on Thursday that the company was seeing more confidence in discretionary programmes as clients were taking less time to sign deals.

The Nifty 50 index has now re-entered correction territory – a 10% fall – since its most recent high in late September.

The Champions Trophy will be hosted in a hybrid format with Pakistan as official hosts. The tournament will be played a three venues in Pakistan -- Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi- and in Dubai, where India will play all their matches, including the semifinal and final if they qualify, as an agreement between the ICC, PCB and the BCCI.

The world's largest gathering of humanity begins in India on Monday with the opening of the Kumbh Mela, a six-week Hindu festival organisers expect to attract up to 400 million pilgrims.

For years, India’s booming economy fueled exuberance that the South Asian nation had entered a new era of faster growth, powering its markets to new heights and raising expectations it would exit the trenches of developing-nation status in a few decades.

India’s construction frenzy has triggered a rush to make steel on the cheap, using some of the dirtiest technology and straining Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans to slash carbon emissions.

Investor and author Ruchir Sharma speaks to economist and psephologist Prannoy Roy on the likely big trends of this year