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India's flood-hit areas are forecast to receive heavy rain this week, with 532 people losing their lives so far across the nation during the monsoon season and hundreds of thousands staying in temporary relief camps. The north-eastern…

India is expected to push back against an anticipated effort by Chinese President Xi Jinping to use this year's Brics summit as a platform to highlight his efforts to build an alternative to the US-led global order, Indian officials with…

Heavy monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh have flooded an airport and knocked down cellphone towers, bridges and power lines, cutting off communications for millions of people and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands. At…

A person has died and 13 others have been injured, as police and protesters clashed in Secunderabad city in the southern state of Telangana on Friday. Police reportedly opened fire into the crowd but reports said it was not clear if the man…

Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Friday (June 17) met with two key Indian ministers to discuss ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in the energy, communications, financial and digital sectors, among other areas.…

Calling for greater economic integration between India and South-east Asia, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said the “sky is the limit” if India and ASEAN can double or quadruple their GDPs over the next 20 years. “At…

When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled the seeds, it did not only slash Ranjit Singh's wheat harvest by nearly half. It put him, and nearly all the other households in his…

French giant TotalEnergies and Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate plan to invest US$5 billion (S$7 billion) to produce green hydrogen and related products in India as the world's third-largest polluter seeks to decarbonize.…

Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said, the old global economic order is crumbling and India, which was on the periphery of the old architecture, is more likely to gain than lose from the emerging new world order. “We can be a global…

India and Vietnam Wednesday signed a Joint Vision Statement on India-Vietnam Defence Partnership towards 2030, “which will significantly enhance the scope and scale of existing defence cooperation”. The document was signed by Defence…