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Tens of thousands of people are displaced by floods in India even as torrential lashes Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Bihar states.

The S.S. Gairsoppa, a British merchant vessel heading to England from India, went down in the Atlantic after it was hit by a Nazi torpedo in 1941.

Eleven people -- six in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, police said.

Years of combing tropical mountain forests, shining flashlights under rocks and listening for croaks in the night have paid off for a team of Indian scientists which has discovered 12 new frog species plus three others thought to have been extinct.

As his global teleconference broke up in disarray on September 11, 2001, a top economist at a U.S. investment bank began to ponder what the attacks on the United States might tell him about the future shape of the world.

Measuring the country’s economic development against that of China seems to be a national obsession in India, but the rivalry seems to be largely one-sided.

Lawmakers endorsed demands by Anna Hazare, the anticorruption campaigner who has been on a hunger strike, for legislation to fight graft.

Vodafone said that it has reduced its shareholding in its Indian operations to adhere to the nation's foreign direct-investment rules, paving the way for a possible initial public offering of the unit.

Ford Motor Co plans to build a $900 million production plant in India, doubling its investment in the country, as the U.S. carmaker seeks to catch up with rivals in the second-fastest growing auto market in the world.

South Korea's ambitions to enter the Indian energy market receive a big boost as the two countries sign a nuclear deal.