Buying a brand new split 5 Star AC or replacing the existing one in the house is one of the major decisions to make. It is majorly because the asset is not only a long-term investment but even a considerably economic one.

Raids in India, in co-operation with RCMP, follow CBC Marketplace story on Indian call centres contacting Canadians, claiming to be from CRA and demanding tax payments.

More than 95% of the smartphones that ship in India run Android, according to industry estimates. Now the Indian antitrust watchdog is convinced that the nation should investigate whether Google is abusing the dominant position of its mobile operating system to hurt local rivals.

Flights were canceled. Train service was out. And one of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha, one of India’s poorest states, where millions of people live cheek by jowl in a low-lying coastal area in mud-and-stick shacks. But government authorities in Odisha, along India’s eastern flank, hardly stood still. To warn people of what was coming, they deployed everything they had: 2.6 million text messages, 43,000 volunteers, nearly 1,000 emergency workers, television commercials, coastal sirens, buses, police officers, and...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is reviewing its India investment strategy that could see the Jack Ma-led Chinese e-commerce giant take a more judicious approach by making more vertical e-commerce investments and smaller early-stage deals, three people aware of the matter said.

There’s heartening news on an age-old Indian problem. A report released by the United Nations Population Fund earlier this month indicates that India’s population growth rate has slowed substantially in the 2010-2019 period. According to the report, India’s population may have grown at .4 percentage points lower in the 2010-2019 period as compared to the decade between 2001 and 2011.

The world is literally a greener place than it was twenty years ago, and data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage. A new study shows that China and India—the world’s most populous countries—are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.

Nearly 50 per cent of the country is currently facing drought with at least 16 per cent falling in the "exceptional" or "extreme" category, according to IIT Gandhinagar scientists managing India's real time drought prediction system. This ongoing drought will pose a lot of challenges in water availability this summer, Vimal Mishra, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) told PTI.

The 50 most polluting cities in the world are all come from three countries of the same continent. This is evident from a new report from Greenpeace and AirVisual, a company that performs measurements of air quality. The Big culprits are India and China. India, in particular, makes a bad turn. No less than 22 of the cities in India make the top 30, including the most polluted city in the world: Gurugram. That is one of the largest satellite cities in New Delhi, in the northern part of the country. In Gurugram the average air quality index is almost three times higher than what is considered healthy.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority today issued a list of 390 anti-cancer drugs which will be available at a cheaper rate for patients. The prices of the listed drugs have been cut by up to 87 per cent by the pharmaceutical body. Prices of at least 38 medicines like Bendamustine, Bortezomib and Pemetrexed have been cut down by 75 per cent and more.

Dangerous sewage pathogens have been found “hitch-hiking” on plastic litter washed up on some of Scotland’s finest bathing beaches, raising concerns from scientists the phenomenon could have far-reaching implications for human health worldwide. The findings, by the University of Stirling, have confirmed environmentalists’ fears that ubiquitous, persistent and tiny plastic beads, or “nurdles”, found on beaches and in rivers and seas around the world, act as rafts for harmful bacteria, transporting them from sewage outfalls and agricultural runoff to bathing waters and shellfish beds.

In a country where people often go barefoot indoors – considering it a gesture of respect and a nod to hygiene – a village in southern India has taken the practice to a new level.

The starry dwarf frog is an expert hider. Plunging into leaf litter at the slightest disturbance, it has successfully evaded attention for millions of years—until now.

Police in India arrested ten college students after they were caught playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile. Gujarat, a western state in the country, banned the game last week over concerns that it’s too addicting and violent. The students were released on bail later today. The students were apparently “so engrossed” in the game that they didn’t look up and notice police approaching to arrest them, one cop told local media.

Azim Premji, India’s most generous billionaire, has announced a fresh bequest to his eponymous philanthropic initiative that boosts his total commitment to Rs 1.45 lakh crore ($21 billion), making it one of the five largest private endowments in the world and the biggest in Asia. This has cemented the 73-year-old billionaire’s place alongside the world’s most influential philanthropists including Bill Gates, George Soros and Warren Buffett.

It’s the most ambitious move against global plastic pollution yet. First comes the leak, then comes the flood. 2018 will be remembered as the year the world waged war on plastic waste — and the revolution has just got serious. India announced it will ban all single-use plastics by 2022 in the most important leap forward against plastic pollution to date.

Spices have been giving our lives pizazz for millennia, but many of us wouldn't recognize them out in the wild.

While common horse-sense in the west might suggest that the fast-industrializing south would be responsible for making Earth a much greyer, more polluted and desertified place, NASA satellites have found that the world's two most populous countries – China and India – are actually making the earth a greener place than it used to be twenty years ago.

For a modern flagship smartphone to be competitive in today’s market, it needs to have all the latest features. Be it dual-frequency GNSS or every feature added in Bluetooth 5, there’s a lot for manufacturers to consider. This abundance of features can make smartphones difficult to repair as the number of parts increases. More parts mean more potential for breakage. In a move to possibly counter this, Samsung has listed replacement costs for key parts of its smartphones on its website.

With summer on the cards, everyone tends to look to buy an air conditioner for their homes. But people are always doubtful regarding their budget and brand which one should they choose and opt for it. Here you will find for which air conditioner you should go and why.

If President Donald Trump presses ahead with his plan to end the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for India, it could lose the status in early May, Indian officials have said, raising the prospect of retaliatory tariffs.

One of India’s most popular gastronomic exports tells a tale of empire.

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.

The Lower House of Parliament on Tuesday passed the anti-rape bill, while maintaining the age for consensual sex at 18 years.

Every 12 years, the Naga Sadhus—or sky clad—Hindu monks celebrate the Kumbh Mela festival, at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers. The pilgrimage, in which the monks bathe in holy waters to wash away their sins, is held once every three years in one of four rotating locations. Makar Sankranti, observed on Jan. 14 this year, is an annual harvest festival marking the start of spring and recognized throughout India.

This week Hindus around the world celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors

Foreign tourist inflows into India have registered a 25-percent drop in the last three months of the year in the wake of rape incidents reported in the country, according to a survey by the Assocham Social Development Foundation (ASDF).

The owner of a famous restaurant in India says the friendliness of western women can confuse local men and lead to sexual assault.

India's city streets are so congested, few drivers actually follow the rules of the road.

Wildlife authorities used drones on Monday for aerial surveillance of a sprawling natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poachers. Security officers conducted flights of the unmanned aircraft over the Kaziranga National Park.

For the second time since December 2012, Delhi saw a tsunami of anger over rape. A couple of dolls, flopping akimbo on the five-year-old girl who was raped over three days in a capital slum became the emblem of a city’s sound and fury...

Using pre-fabricated buildings, stripping out air-conditioning and even training visitors to help with post-operative care, the group believes it can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 dollars.