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A ban on commercial vehicles more than 15 years old has come into force in the Indian city of Calcutta, as part of efforts to reduce pollution levels.
The restriction affects thousands of buses, taxis and rickshaws. Transport operators have criticised.
Prisoners in Calcutta’s main prison went on a brief hunger strike in an effort to force authorities to allow them to watch cricket on TV. Nearly 500 of the jail’s 2,000 prisoners skipped lunch and dinner Sunday, demanding to see Indian Premier League matc
Nearly 1,000 snake charmers held a protest in eastern India Tuesday, playing their flutes as they marched through the streets demanding the right to perform with live snakes.
One of the two men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by gunmen in the Mumbai attacks is a counter-insurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday.
Indian police say they have arrested two men accused of providing mobile phone cards to the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks.
Hundreds of protesters rallied Saturday against Tata Motors’ decision to shift production of the Nano, billed as the world’s cheapest car, out of India’s West Bengal state, calling the move a serious blow to the local economy.
An Indian court has fined a Czech entomologist and sentenced another Czech citizen to three years in prison after finding them guilty of illegally collecting rare butterflies and beetles in the country’s remote northeast, officials said Thursday.
International and domestic flights were disrupted across India on Wednesday as thousands of airport employees went on strike to protest plans to privatize airports, officials said.
A 14-year-old school boy in eastern India has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a younger student who refused to hand over her iPod, police said Tuesday.
India’s tea industry is losing $475,000 a day due to a strike by ethnic Gurkhas that has disrupted transport links and blocked roads in the eastern region of Darjeeling, officials said Tuesday.The strike has shut down businesses and shops and kept most...
Tens of thousands of tourists were stranded in the tea-growing region of eastern India on Tuesday after a Gurkha separatist group called a strike to press its demand for an independent state, shutting down hotels, shops and roads.The Gurkha Janamukti...
