The funeral of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will be held on today. His body is kept at the Goa BJP office and will later be taken to the Kala Academy for people to pay their last respects to the leader. Mr Parrikar would be accorded a state funeral with full military honours this...

The Supreme Court revoked the life ban on former Indian cricketer S. Sreesanth in a case of spot-fixing and asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to re-examine its quantum of punishment. A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and K.M. Joseph said the life ban was “too harsh.”...

Azim Premji, the billionaire chairman of Indian conglomerate Wipro Ltd., will give a further 34 percent of shares in the company worth $7.5 billion to support philanthropic activities, the most generous donation in Indian history. The shares held by entities controlled by Premji have...

Virtually calling China a terrorism supporter, the US indicated that members of the UN Security Council may need to consider “other actions” if Beijing continued to prevent the sanctions committee from designating Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist....

India and the US said they have agreed to build six American nuclear power plants in India, in a boost to bilateral civil nuclear energy cooperation. The two countries said this in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the 9th round of India-US Strategic Security Dialogue. “They...