The death toll from last month's hajj stampede has topped 2,100, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it by far the deadliest disaster in the pilgrimage's history.

A commission of inquiry in India has concluded that the lynching of a man over rumours he kept and consumed beef was premeditated and not spontaneous.

Sikhs in the northern Indian state of Punjab stage protests, enforced strikes and blocked roads in several towns and cities in the past week.

An Indian court is found an Uber taxi driver guilty of raping a female passenger last year in Delhi.

The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed on Monday.

Actress Lisa Ray, who put up a brave fight against cancer, says the amount of misinformation about the disease is shocking and that media needs to clear the myths and the 'fear factor' surrounding it.

Zaheer Abbas, International Cricket Council (ICC) President fears for Pakistan players' security during the World T20 in India next year.

A meeting between India and Pakistan's cricket board chiefs in Mumbai has been cancelled after a protest by far-right Hindu nationalists.

It is understood that the Indian cricket authorities had discussed the possibility of a tri-series involving Pakistan and Bangladesh in its working committee meeting, according to a report of ESPNcricinfo.

India-Nepal relations are extremely intertwined not only because of their religious affinity - both are predominantly Hindu societies - but also because of India's security concerns.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "angry" with party leaders who made incendiary statements in the aftermath of the Dadri killing over beef rumours.

A possible gas cylinder blast kills at least eight people, most of them students, in a restaurant in the Indian city of Mumbai, police say.

A possible gas cylinder blast kills at least eight people, most of them students, in a restaurant in the Indian city of Mumbai, police say.

Two Indian girls aged two-and-a-half and five years old were raped in separate incidents in New Delhi overnight.

Thirteen people, including three children, were killed on Saturday and ten others injured when a mini-truck carrying a marriage party collided with a bus at Andhra Pradesh.

Chris Cairns allegedly told the New Zealand players that he attempted to recruit to his match-fixing operation that the Indian Cricket League (ICL) was powerless to stop their actions.

India's Supreme Court strikes down a new law that gave the government more say in appointing judges.

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.

Pakistan calls upon India to stop its 'conspiracies' and 'proxy wars' aimed at destabilising Pakistan.

An Indian woman stranded in Pakistan for a decade identifies her family in photos sent from across the border.