India and China are aware of the “very high political, economic and military cost of frozen relations,” he says. “China felt it had pushed India too close to the U.S. while India realized that it was losing its vaunted strategic autonomy by getting too close to Washington and turning Beijing into an adversary.”

India's unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in July from 5.6% in the previous month, the statistics ministry said on Monday, as rural hiring picked up ahead of the festival season and on agricultural activity.

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area.

Indian markets surged Monday on news of a potential goods and services tax overhaul. James Thom of Aberdeen said he remains bullish on India’s structural outlook, noting the reform could revive weakening consumption and cushion the impact of high U.

India aims to slash taxes on small cars and insurance premiums as part of a sweeping reform of its goods and services tax (GST), a government source said on Monday, sparking a rally in Indian stock markets.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been moving to align India with the United States and freeze out China. Now, efforts to rebuild ties between the Asian giants are gaining momentum.

IIT Madras has licensed India's first silicon photonics-based quantum random number generator in a ₹1 crore deal with Indrarka Quantum Technologies for commercial deployment

The Seattle skyline flared in new colors on Friday as the Indian Tricolor was hoisted atop the city’s iconic Space Needle for the very first time, marking India’s 79th Independence Day.

Officials say flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed over 280 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing.

The unemployment rate for the April-June period, the first quarter of current fiscal year, was estimated at 5.4 per cent among those aged 15 years and above, the ministry said

By Bharath Rajeswaran (Reuters) -Indian benchmark shares jumped about 1% on Monday as the government's plans for sweeping changes to the goods and services tax (GST) regime is expected to boost consumption in an economy where growth is threatened by steep U.