Foxconn plans to invest up to $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,516 crores) to expand a factory in southern India where the Taiwanese contract manufacturer assembles Apple iPhones, two sources said.

As well as localizing information in languages like Tamil and Punjabi, Google will invest in tech and AI to support agriculture and health.

On Monday, Google announced that it will invest $10 billion in India over the next few years. Two days later, the company revealed a key detail: Nearly half of the money will go to a top telecom operator owned by Asia’s richest man.

The company's plant near Chennai has previously made the iPhone XR, but this is the first time Foxconn has made any of the iPhone 11 range in the country. Apple has expanded manufacturing in India with Foxconn's factory near Chennai now adding the iPhone 11 to its production line. The plant, which has previously assembled the iPhone XR and the original iPhone SE, represents the first time the iPhone 11 range has been made in India.

A farmer in eastern India has found a yellow turtle which experts say is the product of albinism. Basudev Mahapatra spotted the turtle while he was working in his fields in the village of Sujanpur, in Odisha's Balasore district, and decided to bring it home, forest official Susanta Nanda told CNN on Tuesday.

Cities are segregated, and inter-caste marriages are vanishingly rare

Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and biodiverse Indian forest, has pitted indigenous people, ancient trees, elephants and sloths against the might of bulldozers, trucks and hydraulic jacks, fighting with a single purpose: the extraction of coal.

Wistron, one of the Apple manufacturers building iPhones in India, is reportedly planning to hire up to 10,000 people for its iPhone plant in Narasapura, claims a report for the New Indian Express. The report notes that the facility is “expected to start commercial production” of the iPhone at the facility in the coming days. Wistron already operates an iPhone factory in Bengaluru around 70 kilometers away.

India must swiftly and permanently turn away from coal despite its need for cheap energy, the UN secretary general has urged, aiming to revive global action on the climate crisis as the world begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. António Guterres told a virtual audience on Friday morning that coal use must be phased out in India, with no new coal-fired power stations after this year, and that fossil fuel subsidies must be ended.

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.