Tag: India

Indian officials and rescuers gather around the wreckage after the Gorakhpur Express passenger train slammed into a parked freight train Chureb, near Basti, Uttar Pradesh state,, India, Monday, May 26, 2014. According to officials dozens were killed. (AP Photo)

Train accident kills at least 40 in northern India

Biswajeet Banerjee · May 26, 2014 3:19 pm

An Indian government owned Ambassador car is parked beside a road in Kolkata, india, Monday, May 26, 2014. India's oldest car factory has abruptly suspended production of the hulking Ambassador sedan that has a nearly seven-decade history as the car of the Indian elite. (AP Photo/ Bikas Das)

India’s oldest car factory shelves elite sedan

Katy Daigle · May 26, 2014 11:39 am

Police say death toll in north Indian train accident rises to 40; at least 100 hurt

Police say death toll in north Indian train accident rises to 40; at least 100 hurt

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 9:56 am

Anandiben Patel, center, an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) speaks to the media after attending a legislative meeting in Gandhinagar, India. Patel Wednesday was elected as the Legislature Party Leader who will succeed Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi as chief minister of the Gujarat state. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Why India’s election matters to Americans

Sardul Singh Minhas · May 25, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, April 17, 2014 file photo, Samarjeet Pattnaik, attorney of a New York City police officer Manny Encarnacion, speaks to the media in New Delhi, India. A court in India's capital has dropped a weapons charge against the New York City police officer and is allowing him to leave the country, his lawyer said Saturday. Encarnacion was arrested in March while visiting his wife in New Delhi after Indian airport authorities discovered three bullets he had accidentally packed in his luggage. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File)

Indian court drops charge against NYPD officer

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 5:22 pm

Motorists ride past a banner of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hanging on an electricity pole in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sharif will attend the inauguration of India's Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi, a first for the nuclear-armed rivals, officials said Saturday. Pakistan and India have a history of uneasy relations and they have fought three wars over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947. Saturday's decision by Sharif could signal a further easing of tensions. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan PM to attend Indian inauguration, a first

Munir Ahmed · May 24, 2014 1:35 pm

Budget carrier AirAsia plans flights in India soon

Budget carrier AirAsia plans flights in India soon

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 12:25 pm

Raw: Indian Consulate in Afghanistan Attacked

Raw: Indian Consulate in Afghanistan Attacked

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 9:39 am

You could tell that the White House was less than overjoyed at the election of Narendra Modi when the spokesman recited boilerplate praise of a "free and fair election." (AP Photo)

Is Narendra Modi the Margaret Thatcher of India?

Mona Charen · May 20, 2014 3:44 pm

India's next prime minister and Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi displays the letter from the Indian President inviting him to form the new government, outside the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Modi met with President Pranab Mukherjee after he was formally chosen by his party as the next prime minister, just days after a resounding victory in national elections. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Modi to be sworn in as India’s leader on Monday

Ashok Sharma · May 20, 2014 3:25 pm

Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi, left, flashes the victory symbol standing next to senior party leader L.K. Advani at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Thousands of cheering supporters welcomed Modi on his arrival in the capital Saturday after leading his party to a staggering victory in national elections. Modi and his BJP wiped out the Congress party that dominated Indian politics for all but a decade since the country gained freedom from British rule in 1947. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

After huge win, next Indian PM begins victory lap

ASHOK SHARMAMUNEEZA NAQVI · May 17, 2014 5:09 pm

Indians take photographs of a map of India holding a portrait of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, made with colored powder and surrounded by rose petals, at the party office in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, May 16, 2014. Modi will be India's next prime minister, winning the most decisive election victory the country has seen in more than a quarter century and sweeping the long-dominant Congress party from power, partial results showed Friday. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Landslide win for Indian opposition party

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2014 1:47 am