Social stigma is harming attempts to combat cervical cancer in India where more women die annually of the disease than anywhere else in the world, a new report said Friday.

Italian prosecutors on Thursday filed charges against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly bribing a left-wing senator 3 million euros (US$3.9 million) to join his party.

At least 33 people died Wednesday when an overcrowded bus skidded off the road into a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said.

More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.

India and China withdrew troops Monday from a disputed area of the Himalayas after settling a border dispute, officials said, as the giant nuclear-armed neighbors took steps to ease tensions.

India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests.

As the Indian film industry turned 100 years old yesterday, here's looking at its different industries and their fascination for the “wood” suffix.

A Pakistani prisoner in India was in a coma Friday after being beaten by another inmate, officials said, a day after a convicted Indian spy died after being bludgeoned with a brick by fellow inmates at a Pakistani prison.

Indians expressed outrage at the Pakistan government Thursday over the death of a convicted Indian spy who had been attacked with a brick by two fellow inmates in a Pakistan prison, a development New Delhi said has damaged relations between the longtime rival countries.

A shallow earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 struck in northern India on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.