One of the suspects in the rape and murder of a woman in Delhi last year is in critical condition after nearly being killed by fellow inmates in prison.
India's leading newspapers latched onto yesterday's sentencing of former Rutger's University student Dharun Ravi convicted of bias intimidation against college roommate Tyler Clementi.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: China addresses the Dalai Lama's "murky psychology," Iran cracks down a rapper and Venezuela tries to define propaganda.
Ashton Kutcher's new ad campaign for Pop Chips does a pretty unfunny caricature of an Indian guy, and has thus, understandably, riled up some folks.
A ferry carrying around 350 people broke apart and sank into the Brahmaputra River near the India-Bangladesh border late on Monday, causing a awful death toll that could rise into the hundreds.
Less than a week after India flexed its nuclear muscles, Pakistan test-fired a new ballistic missile just to let everyone know that its own destructive weapons haven't gone anywhere.
The Washington Post on offshore drilling, The Guardian on the cost of the BP spill, Bloomberg BusinessWeek on solar cells, The New York Times on India's coal, and the Associated Press on Kenya's dairy shortage
With much less fanfare — and international condemnation — India says it successfully tested a long-range nuclear-capable missile that has the ability to reach Beijing and other Chinese cities.
James E. McWilliams on sustainable meat, The Guardian on the DMZ in Korea, The New York Times on solar energy, ClimateWire on the Mississippi Delta, and National Geographic on India's rickshaws
Thomas Friedman on the other Arab Spring, NPR on the warm winter, The Daily Climate on fires in the Amazon, Scientific American on a cleaner rickshaw, and Reuters on sick polar bears
The U.S. government has offered a $10 million reward for Hafiz Saeed, the man believed to be the "mastermind" of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people.
He's a native son of India and the press has his back.
The cyberbullying trial following the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi in 2010 may be happening in New Jersey, but in India, the proceedings are being broadcast live as Indian-American defendant Dahrun Ravi faces up to 10-years in state prison.
Facebook and Google are leading the way for online companies in India to remove content deemed religiously or politically offensive, after a court there threatened a large-scale crackdown if they didn't comply.
The co-chair of the Jaipur Literature Festival explains the decision to cancel Salman Rushdie's video speech, War Horse is a bestseller 30 years in the making, and the high cost of owning a Nook.
The Weekly Standard drew attention Thursday to video of Vice President Biden discussing the outsourcing of call centers and briefly adopting an Indian accent.
The threat of violence against Salman Rushdie was no joke, Indian officials have said. It was so real, in fact, that not only was Rushdie's physical appearance canceled, but his video address got pulled as well.
Today in books: The plot to kill Salman Rushdie may not have existed, The Telegraph takes a look at what President Obama's read since taking office, and Oxford finally has a Quidditch team to call its own.
Salman Rushdie announced on Friday that he wouldn't attend a literary festival in India because he'd been told there was a plot against his life, and then other writers who wanted to fill in for him found themselves dissuaded as well
As the United States considers its own measures to block illegal websites, India's government is pulling a China and asking Internet companies like Facebook and Google to start screening all user generated content.
After a 64-year nuclear-arm-wrestling match where warring was the norm, Pakistan and India have finally agreed on one thing: they should start trading.
Thanks to winning 50 million rupees (roughly $1 million) on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Sushil Kumar will be now known as a real-life "Slumdog Millionaire" ... until someone else wins big on an Indian gameshow.
Ending poverty, spreading education, and social justice are just a few of its goals
Also in movie news: Francis Ford Coppola's 3D vampire movie has a European distributor
No skimpy clothing, no use of "slut," and plenty of disapproval
Anders Behring Breivik's idols ranged from Vladimir Putin to Geert Wilders
The Kerala government website now features a live feed of its offices
Is Pakistan to blame for the sophisticated attack or unaffiliated militant groups?
A survey probes the stress levels of women in the developed and developing worlds
New agricultural technology aims to end more than a decade-long trend of farmer suicides
On tiger economies, grown-up candidates, and Franzen on Facebook
An offending map of the disputed Kashmir borders is censored
The fondness for typewriters has faded in India, too
The prime ministers of India and Pakistan are watching today's semi-final match together
How to explain the mega-investor's odd preferences?
How the local press covered the Republican star's visits
Liberal and conservative pundits applaud the move
A grand gesture for U.S.-India ties, but hurdles remain
The South Asian nation joins the United Nations Security Council
Athletes and critics object to unkempt conditions
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Washington visit sets high expectations
The Indian Prime Minister is in Washington, and some say he could be key in fighting the Afghan conflict
A luxury pen may not be the best way to commemorate Gandhi's birthday
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