Thousands of people from Nepal and neighbouring India travelled to Bariyarpur village to witness the festival, which occurs every five years. The sacrifices went ahead despite temple authorities announcing a ban in 2015 and Nepal’s supreme court directing the government to reduce animal sacrifice a year later.

India's prime minister has said defecating in the open has ended in rural India - but is that true?

The Indian government claims that the national tiger population has more than doubled since 2006, but independent scientists have found this highly unlikely. It is almost impossible for the tiger population to grow with such speed in such an inexplicable manner, according to the scientists.

The foam is said to be caused by pollutants in sewage mixing with sea water and frothed by waves.

A thick grey smog choked New Delhi for the fifth day Saturday, adding to a mounting pollution health crisis, but retired naval commander 

They're not the world's tallest or longest bridges, but a string of humble river crossings sculpted from tree roots in India are engineering marvels that contain lessons for modern architects.

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?

The Mars Orbiter Mission is the only artificial satellite that could image the full disc of Mars in one view frame and also image the far side of Deimos.

New Delhi: Heralding a perfect Diwali for Apple, iPhone lovers on Friday thronged Apple Authorised Resellers and premium stores across India to grab new iPhone 11 — a scene reminiscent of the arrival of Apple 6 and 7 series in the country in 2014 and 2015.

Eight years after her husband's death following consumption of cyanide-laced food, a Kerala woman and two others were arrested on Saturday, and investigations into the death of five others of the family were on, police said.

Things haven’t quite gone to plan for India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, with the team losing the spacecraft’s Vikram lander following a touchdown attempt last month. But there is still plenty of science to come as the probe continues to circle the Moon, with the latest imagery relayed by the orbiting…

The country has achieved annual growth exceeding seven per cent over the last 15 years, halved its poverty rate since the 1990s, and enjoyed strong improvements in most human development outcomes, the World Bank said.

The residents of Delhi have already begun to forget what it is like to wake up and see the sky. Almost a week on from Diwali, the thick brown smog that shrouded the city after the festival has showed no sign of shifting. On Friday, as the air became poison and 20 million people struggled to breathe, a public health emergency was declared, with Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal declaring the city had turned into a “gas chamber”.

Premature deaths from extreme heat next century could top those from infectious diseases today

Residents of one of the world's most polluted cities are getting fed up with government inaction — and a few questionable tweets aren't helping. Last week, just after the celebration of the Hindu festival Diwali, India's capital city was enveloped in a thick blanket of haze and smog.

Apple has radically overhauled its iPhone operations in India to crack the crucial market but still has a long way to go to upset Samsung's dominance.

A classic example of copy-pasting a first world solution in an emerging economy.

Police are investigating the gang-rape of a tourist in central India, the latest black eye for the country over violence against women.

Indian police said they arrested five men Sunday in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss woman who was on a cycling vacation with her husband in central India.