India

India launched its first space research observatory and several U.S. satellites Sept. 28, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?s drive to expand his country?s influence in the competitive, $300 billion global space industry.

71 bodies of migrants have been found in a freezer truck found abandoned on a highway in Austria on Thursday, according to media reports.

The truck was used by smugglers who are transporting illegal migrants.

The Indian army patrolled riot-hit areas of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat on Aug. 27 after the death toll rose to seven in two days of caste-related violence. 

Clashes spread after police arrested a young leader of the influential Patel clan who led a huge rally on Aug. 25 to demand more government jobs and college places for members of his community. 

The exhibition "Temples, Forts and Palaces: 2000 Years of Indian Architecture" will be staged in the gallery of the National Bank of Serbia August 20-31.

The Indian embassy in Belgrade made the announcement, saying the exhibition would be organized in collaboration with the New Delhi-based Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.
                   

Indian billionaire and politician Vijay Mallya, the boss of Formula 1's "Sahara Force India" team, anchored his 95-meter luxury yacht named "Indian Empress" off Turkey's Aegean resort town of Bodrum July 28. 

Flash floods triggered by torrential monsoon rain have killed at least 26 people in a west Indian state in the past 48 hours, authorities said on July 29.

Twenty-seven people were killed and 40 injured on July 14 in a stampede in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police said, as crowds surged to bathe in the Godavari River on the first day of a religious festival held once every 144 years. 

India is reinvigorating an $18 billion campaign to provide fast internet connections for all, with a "digital week" aimed at popularising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign promise to connect 250,000 villages in India by 2019. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got down to business on the final day of his trip to China on May 16, saying his country was open for investment as firms signed deals worth more than $22 billion.