Such conversations are becoming increasingly common as demand for weight-loss drugs explodes in urban India - a country with the world's second-largest number of overweight adults and more than 77 million people with Type 2 diabetes.

India used the air base at Ayni in Tajikistan during a 2001 evacuation operation after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

In July, a crowd surge at a popular Hindu temple in northern India left at least six people dead and dozens injured. At least 30 people died in January during the Kumbh Mela festival in the northern city of Prayagraj. A month later, at least 18 people were killed at a railway station in New Delhi while on the way to the festival.

India's IndusInd Bank expects to grow in line with the country's banking sector next year, following efforts to clean up its books and complete an organisational overhaul triggered by accounting lapses earlier this year,

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 39-year-old British national, miraculously crawled out of the wreckage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in June after it crashed into a hostel 32 seconds after taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad. The carnage left him forever changed.

A truck loaded with concrete stone chips rammed into a passenger bus in southern India early Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring about two dozen others, local authorities said. The state-run transport bus was carrying around 70 passengers en route to the city of Hyderabad in southern Telangana state when a truck coming from the opposite direction collided with it near the town of Chevella,

The Reserve Bank of India's aggressive dollar sales to defend the rupee are draining liquidity from the banking system, prompting calls for bond purchases to ease the strain, ten traders and economists told Reuters.

Jagtar Singh Johal was arrested in connection with terror-related offences in the Punjab region in November 2017.

Hyundai Motor India Limited has revealed its plans for the Indian market at the launch event of the new generation Venue. Specifically, the South Korean automaker has announced that it will launch 26 new models in the country by FY30.

US sanctions trigger sharp drop in Russian oil imports to India; refiners are shifting strategies before more declines hit.