NEW DELHI—India’s top federal investigative agency arrested former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja and two of his former aides, accusing them of irregularities in the allocation of telephone spectrum in 2008.

QUETTA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2 shook southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, jolting residents of cities as far apart as New Delhi and Dubai, but doing little damage in the sparsely populated region.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — The UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday launched a polio immunization campaign that will provide vaccinations to 3 million children and adults in central Africa,...

LOUHE, China — Xu Lindong, a poor village farmer with close-cropped hair and a fourth-grade education, knew nothing but decades of backbreaking labor. Even at age 50, the rope of muscles on his arms bespoke a lifetime of hard plowing and harvesting in...

President Obama left India with reassurances of his strong support for a ’strategic partnership’ – as well as strong words about his commitment to free trade.

As the rain threatened to further push last-minute arrangements for next month’s Commonwealth Games, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on Monday, discussed the mega sporting event and other issues of national...

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he cannot spend all his time with his birth certificate plastered on his forehead, given that misinformation campaign some people are running against his place of birth and religion. “I would say that I...

As Toronto virtually went under lockdown before the G20 summit beginning on Saturday, anti-globalisation protesters marched through city streets to give the security forces a tough time. In one such anti-poverty protest, Mahatma Gandhi figured...

Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults. That air of suspicion...

As India waits for answers on who let Warren Anderson get away, NDTV has got access to a soundbite of the man himself, just before he left for the United States from Delhi. Anderson was the American CEO of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) in 1984 when a...