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The Odisha crash in India has put a spotlight on safety as the government modernizes the country's extensive railway network and infrastructure.

At least 233 people are now known to have been killed and 900 injured in a multiple train collision in India's eastern Odisha state, officials say.

India is set to overtake China to become the most populous country in the world by the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations shows.

The Japanese PM said that Russia’s actions in Ukraine are ‘shaking the very essence of the international order’

India has abstained on every UN vote condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine

The top US infectious diseases expert has called on India to take drastic action to “break the chain of transmission” as the crisis worsens.

On Monday, a senior official from India's federal government told journalists that there was no shortage of oxygen in Delhi or anywhere else in the country.

India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day, as its nationwide vaccine drive launches amid a supply crisis.

With astronomical COVID rates and people “dropping like flies”, a “murderously reckless” image out of India has attracted heavy criticism.

Crematoriums in the Indian capital Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres, as the city runs out of space to cremate its dead.

The first emergency medical supplies trickled into Covid-stricken India on Tuesday as part of efforts to staunch a catastrophic wave in the latest pandemic hotspot, with the United States also pledging to export millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses.

Critics have sounded alarm bells for the public as India’s brutal second wave of COVID-19 whittles away “whatever remains of democracy”.

Experts are shocked at how fast COVID-19 cases are spreading amid complacency and overcrowding in a country labelled “the next Brazil”.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been taken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this week.

India now has more than 500,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to government figures released Saturday that showed a record daily leap of 18,500 new infections.

The president’s order to freeze a type of visa most often used by software engineers provoked dismay and disbelief in India, which has sent hundreds of thousands of professionals to work on technology projects in the United States.

At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in a disputed Himalayan border area, Indian officials say.

Manmohan Singh, the former prime minister of India, is getting medical care after suffering from chest pains and uneasiness, media reports say.

Businesses are reopening in the capital New Delhi, but health experts warn that India's virus curve has yet to peak

The capital New Delhi and over 80 cities and districts shut down as India scrambles to check spread of the pandemic.