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News Hour: At least nine Indian miners were killed and nearly two dozen trapped when mine waste collapsed at a coalfield run by state-owned Coal India Limited, officials said on Friday, hitting production at one of...

News Hour: Six workers were killed when a fire swept through a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune overnight, police said on Friday, adding that the victims had been locked in. “The main shutter...

News Hour: A deadline for Indians to deposit invalid rupee notes at banks closes on Friday as attention turns towards the potential political ramifications of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bold currency shakeup. Restrictions on the amount...

News Hour: A train derailed in northern India on Wednesday injuring at least 43 people, police and rail officials said, at least the third such accident in recent weeks that has raised concerns about the safety...

News Hour: The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called “sand mining mafia”, accused of damaging the coastline and destroying livelihoods of impoverished...

News Hour: Fathers in rural India are the target of a new campaign to stop traffickers ensnaring young girls into the sex trade as research on Friday showed the average age of girls forced into prostitution...

News Hour: The prospects of introducing a goods and services tax (GST) in India next April, its biggest tax reform, faded on Friday after federal and state finance officials postponed talks on how to administer the...

News Hour: Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, which has topped the sales charts and transformed India’s urban SUV landscape since its launch in March 2016, was adjudged Indian Car of the Year 2017 by a jury of...

News Hour: Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja’s maiden 10-wicket match haul against England in Chennai has propelled him to second position behind teammate and India’s star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Jadeja’s performance has earned him 66 points and...

News Hour: Indian central bank Governor Urjit Patel will not appear on Thursday before parliament’s finance committee to brief it on the government’s decision to scrap high-value bank notes, the panel’s chairman said on Wednesday. The...