A rush hour stampede during a sudden monsoon downpour at a railway-station in India's financial hub of Mumbai killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 30, an Indian state official said on Friday.
The cause of the stampede on a bridge at the city's central Elphinstone station during the rainstorm was being investigated, a police official at theRead more
Authorities in a deeply conservative Indian state were accused Wednesday of reinforcing entrenched gender discrimination after describing veiled women as the "pride" of the region.
The advertisement sponsored by the government of northern Haryana state featured the image of a woman, her face shrouded by a traditional scarf, with a tagline saying "the veil is Haryana's pride".
Women are oftenRead more
At least 15 people were killed after a bus fell off a bridge in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday, a senior police official said.
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan, chief minister of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has said that the governments of Japan, Singapore, UK and the UAE will be official partner countries for Global Investors’ Summit, (GIS), to be hosted by the state government in Indore, the financial capital of the province, on Oct. 22 and 23.
Addressing a press conference, ChiefRead more