INDIA

By Thanksgiving, the number of young people on Long Island charged with cheating on their college board exams is expected to reach 13, with at least five more arrests on tap, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said.

Vinod Kambli, a former international cricketer, has voiced his suspicions that the 1996 World Cup semi-final encounter, between India and Sri Lanka, was fixed.

A week ago people were waiting for Aishwarya Rai’s baby and when she gave birth to a baby girl the whole attention turned towards the junior Miss World.

The next parliament session will focus on passing the controversial Lokpal Bill, overshadowing calls for a renewed push on economic reforms

India expects to unveil a new telecoms policy in January, the country's telecoms secretary R Chandrasekhar said.

Reliance Industries and BP Plc have formed a joint venture India Gas Solutions to source, market and transport natural gas.

India Inc has lost its swagger. Slowing growth, stubbornly high inflation, rising interest rates have dampened investor and corporate sentiment.

H.J. Heinz Co. saw its fiscal second-quarter net income dip 5.7 percent, as organic sales growth in emerging markets could not offset continually weakening sales in North America.

On Friday, Indonesian budget airline Lion Air placed a $21.7 billion order with Boeing, the airplane giant's biggest commercial order on record.

Two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials involved in the recent frisking incident of former Indian president Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam at a U.S. airport have reportedly been sacked, according to an Indian national daily.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Myanmar, a nation that was plagued by one of the longest running civil wars and a repressive military regime, until recently.

A San Jose, California, man faces charges of tax evasion after failing to report $1.3 million in interest income from HSBC Holdings Plc's India unit, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.

United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared to call China and India threats on Thursday, in comments that the Pentagon quickly sought to correct.

A nun active in fighting for the rights of villagers threatened by coal miners was hacked to death with an axe by unknown assailants in Jharkhand.

For over two decades, India has maintained hundreds of thousands of armed forces in this border state where a violent insurgency, partially fueled by training and funds from Pakistan, raged for several years.

Ever since she can remember, Katherine Cummings knew she had been born into the wrong body.

Gold fell to a one week low on Thursday as fears that the euro zone debt crisis could spread from peripheral to core economies kept investors nervous and prompted some to liquidate profitable positions to cover losses in other asset classes.

General Electric, the biggest U.S. conglomerate, announced plans to hire as many as 400 more software engineers for a new global center in San Ramon, Calif. The company said it plans to spend as much as $1 billion on software development through 2015.

Superbugs capable of evading even the most powerful antibiotics are increasing their grip in Europe with rates of drug resistance in one type of bacteria reaching 50 percent in the worst-hit countries, health officials said Thursday.

George Harrison inadvertently became the greatest promoter of Indian culture and Hinduism to the Western world during the 20th century.

A previously unknown manuscript by Bengali poet and Nobel Literature Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore is expected to fetch up to $250,000 when it is auctioned next month in New York.