Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel say their first reaction was to help treat the injured.
A medic says the lone passenger to survive the Air India crash that killed more than 240 people found himself near debris after being thrown out of the plane and walked to a nearby ambulance for aid.
Police in India say that at least 27 people including children have been killed in a major fire at an amusement park.
The amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years.
The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: what can be done.
India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago.
The European Union’s plan to impose a tax on the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer countries argue that the tax will harm livelihoods and economic growth.
Over 100,000 people who sheltered from Cyclone Biparjoy in relief camps in western India have begun to return home after the storm weakened and headed toward Pakistan.
Cyclone Biporjoy is weakening as it churns past coastal India toward Pakistan with lashing rains and gusts of up to 105 kph (65 mph).
Pakistan’s army and civil authorities are planning to evacuate 80,000 people to safety along the country's southern coast before the arrival of Cyclone Biparjoy.
The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five years and focus on growing its renewables sector, according to an updated national electricity plan released Wednesday evening.
Shock and anger have been supplanted by grief as families and friends mourn the 134 lives lost when a suspension bridge collapsed in the western Indian city of Morbi.
The 143-year-old cable suspension bridge that collapsed Sunday in the western Indian state of Gujarat in one of the country's worst disasters in years was built using the latest technology available in Europe at the time.
Military teams are searching for people missing after a century-old pedestrian bridge collapsed into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday evening, killing at least 132 people.
Hundreds of people have demonstrated in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.
A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences.
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Rescuers have recovered 12 more bodies as hopes fade for 26 people still missing after a barge with 261 onboard sank off Mumbai when a powerful cyclone lashed the region this week.
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The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift off the coast of Mumbai after a deadly cyclone struck the western coast.