The country is one more step toward creating the "united states" of India.

India's Tadoba Andhari National Park is one of the few bright spots in the fight to save tigers from extinction, writes Sarah Marshall.

Biologists are adding a gene to the DNA of the pigeon pea, in hopes of boosting export output by 30 per cent.

Packing Mumbai, Delhi, Agra and Bhutan into a week is verging on the impossible, but that's what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did earlier this year.

An Indian rape victim has allegedly been attacked again by the same men who were out on bail and wanted to punish the girl's family.

The world's biggest planemakers are wooing the Indian budget carrier for a potential blockbuster order worth about $12 billion.

"I hear the moves and make trades," says Vishal Agrawal, a 29-year-old forex trader who became blind nine years ago.

A massive earthquake called an "active megathrust fault" is posing a genuine threat to southern Asia.

Two men have been arrested in India for allegedly planning to ferry more than 100 refugees to New Zealand.

The Indian negotiator trying to close a free trade agreement with New Zealand has told John Key that the "best is the enemy of the good".

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

More Indian student visas have been declined than approved in the past 10 months, as Immigration New Zealand battles widespread fraud.

A child bride who became the first female taxi driver in South India is the unlikely star of an inspiring film in this month's Documentary Edge Festival.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce and Indian President Pranab Mukherjee announced the creation of the New Zealand Excellence Awards at Auckland University of Technology.

Indian president's visit will boost links with NZ, but there's little sign of a breakthrough on free trade deal.

Behind us are three sparkling shopping malls where Swedish clothing giant H&M recently opened its first shiny store in India.

Around 200 years ago, Shekhawati, located in the middle of India's barren Rajastan Thar Desert, became a magnet for the richest of tycoons.

The mood was upbeat at NZX's Auckland offices yesterday as the third addition to the new NXT board, food supplements maker Oceania Natural, went public.

India is home to the highest number of people who have died while taking selfies.

The prime minister wooed investors at a glitzy event, but executives said more reforms are needed.

"Don't tell me how to bowl an off-spinner, I know what an off-spinner looks like!"

A bus driver in India become the first person in modern recorded history to be struck dead by a meteorite.

India, where public displays of affection are strictly taboo, appears to have fallen in love with a porn star.

Here are 5 reasons you want volunteer while travelling the world.

Four gunmen and two troops have been killed in an attack on an Indian Air Force base near the border with Pakistan.

Nearly 600,000 Indian men who have sexually harassed or taunted women received a text message from police over the New Year reminding them to be on their best behaviour.

India will be laying out the welcome mat to global bond funds on day one of 2016.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in the heart of the Indian capital to protest the release of the juvenile who was convicted of raping a young woman in a moving bus three years ago.