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India's economic growth surged in the third quarter at a much faster pace than expected, increasing odds that the central bank will raise interest rates to head off inflation.

Indian airline Jet Airways said Chief Executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer will step down on Oct. 15. Senior Vice President Nikos Kardassis will take over as the acting head.

Rescue workers used sandbags to stop a raging river from breaching its embankment near a southern Indian city on Monday as floods triggered by heavy rains over the last week left 2.5 million people homeless.

Indian authorities have detained a North Korean vessel and are searching it for radioactive material, the first time a ship has been seized and boarded under sanctions adopted by the United Nations Security Council in June.

A massive magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands, triggering a tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.

India's launch of a nuclear-powered submarine is a threat to regional peace and security, Pakistan's foreign ministry says.

Indian farmers -- desperate for rain -- have asked their unmarried daughters to plow dry fields naked, in a bid to spark interest from the weather gods, and bring some badly needed monsoon rain.

Despite a confession by the sole surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks and his lawyer's offer to withdraw from the case, an Indian court said Thursday that it will continue with the trial.

India's MPs protest after it emerges that former president APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked before boarding a flight to the US.

The world's most populous nations will gaze skywards on Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st Century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai.