A traditional Buddhist sand mandala is being constructed by two Tibetan-born monks in Tauranga Art Gallery. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A traditional Buddhist sand mandala is being constructed by two Tibetan-born monks in Tauranga Art Gallery. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Labour leader will make a last-ditch appeal to the Government not to deport a group of Indian students over fraudulent documents submitted by their immigration agents.

A church harbouring Indian students facing deportation asks the Government to allow them to stay on compassionate grounds.

The Auckland church that hosted NZ's first same-sex marriage has decided to give sanctuary to nine Indian students facing deportation over a student visa fraud.

A young Indian couple facing deportation with their 2-year-old daughter are now planning to seek sanctuary in a central Auckland church.

Students facing deportation plan to seek refuge in a church.

In at least some of these calls, according to some accounts, the American leader lived up to his reputation for straight-talking and bombastic rhetoric.

In India, for the price of the latest iPhone, you could eat breakfast, lunch and dinner for an entire year, and still have a bit of cash to spare.

All things Russian and Indian are popular, as are Brazilian corporate bonds and Mexico's cheap peso.

COMMENT: While the proposal is good in theory, it's no panacea for the challenges of our modern economy.

Apple wants India to offer tax concessions on iPhones that the company plans to manufacture in the country.

A shopkeeper faces charges after a New Zealand teenager said she was sexually assaulted on an educational tour of India.

A woman has been charged with murder after a man died in Christchurch on Christmas Day.

In the sleepy mountainous states of North India, marijuana has grown indigenously for hundreds of years.

Controversy as England cricket fans post offensive jokes at India test match about the likes of Madeleine McCann, Adam Johnson and Josef Fritzl.

Employers are exploiting international students, who put up with illegal wages and working conditions so they can get a visa and stay in New Zealand.

A female Indian student who has tried to immigrate honestly to NZ tells how she was propositioned and asked to pay for jobs to get her visa.

Parishioners shocked, saddened by statue's theft

They have bushy beards, a preference for loose-fitting robes, hundreds of millions of devotees - and a line of consumer products.

Tourists have been forced to busk and beg for money on the streets of India after 'demonetisation' of high-value currency left them 'virtually penniless'.

The head of an Auckland daycare where a child died is speaking out for the first time.

Just over two weeks into its biggest fight against tax evasion, India's regulatory flip-flops are confusing citizens.

The 4-year-old boy who died while playing on a playground at his Takapuna daycare in Auckland has been farewelled in India tonight.

Andrew Alderson settles in at the Shreemaya Hotel, in Indore, India.

Unaccounted money makes up nearly a quarter of India's economy, but new measures have seen drastic consequences.

Indian ATMs ran low on cash and tempers flared amid ripples from "black money" clampdown.

The horrific dismembering was allegedly the result of a 14-year-old girl, who lived in the same Indian village, losing her mobile phone.

Keeley Bolger finds relaxation is the order of the day in the Indian state becoming known for luxury beach accommodation.

Mask-wearing protesters took to the streets of the Indian capital as the city remained blanketed under a cloud of toxic smoke that has lingered for a week.