Southern India

Residents in US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington.

A light-hearted comment made by MK Stalin over couples and children, soon after his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu advised people to have more offspring, has revived the debate over delimitation and its impact.

Lebanon state media said several Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday, about half an hour after Israel issued evacuation warnings for the Hezbollah bastion following intense strikes the night before.

Heavy rains and gusty winds battered southern West Bengal on Thursday as the state administration evacuated over 2.5 lakh people to safety in anticipation of the impending severe cyclonic storm 'Dana,' set to make landfall in Odisha after midnight.

India on Friday dispatched the first tranche of 11 tons of medical supplies to Lebanon as part of a humanitarian effort to support the nation amid rising tensions and the ongoing conflict in southern Lebanon.

More than two dozen people were injured when the Mysuru-Darbhanga Express rammed a stationary goods train at Kavarapettai in the Chennai Division of Southern Railway on October 11.

India Meteorological Department officials said a low-pressure area that formed over the Bay of Bengal was the trigger for the widespread rainfall.

Former Indian cricket team star Ajay Jadeja was declared the next Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, also known as Jamnagar, a princely state in the historical Halar region on the southern shores of the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat.

The railway derailment in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur - after a passenger train travelling at 75 km per hour rammed into a stationary goods train - was caused by a "mismatch between signal and route", RN Singh, General Manager of Southern Railways, said.

More than 1,500 brand new scooters purchased so that meritorious girls from poor families could continue their higher education are slowly turning to scrap in two colleges in Banswara in southern Rajasthan.

Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah was in a bunker in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh when it was hit by Israeli bombs last week.

A recent fire at Tata Group's Apple iPhone component plant in southern India has caused an indefinite production halt at Tata's Hosur plant in Tamil Nadu, the only Indian supplier of iPhone back panels and some other parts for both contract manufacturer Foxconn in the country and its own iPhone assembly at another plant.

China's Lenovo Group will start making artificial intelligence (AI) servers at its plant in southern India and opened an AI servers-focussed R&D lab in the tech hub of Bengaluru, the electronics hardware maker said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of Samsung Electronics employees went on a strike at a plant in southern India for a second day on Tuesday. They put up tents outside the factory in Sriperumbudur near the city of Chennai as they prepared to boycott work.

Heroes don't always wear capes, sometimes they operate bulldozers. Haryana's Subhan Khan has emerged as a real-life hero in Telangana after he rescued nine people marooned on a bridge amid the raging floods in the southern state

Residents in US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ancestral village in southern India were preparing to hold prayers on election day on Tuesday in a Hindu temple more than 8,000 miles (13,000 km) from Washington.

A light-hearted comment made by MK Stalin over couples and children, soon after his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu advised people to have more offspring, has revived the debate over delimitation and its impact.

Lebanon state media said several Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday, about half an hour after Israel issued evacuation warnings for the Hezbollah bastion following intense strikes the night before.

Heavy rains and gusty winds battered southern West Bengal on Thursday as the state administration evacuated over 2.5 lakh people to safety in anticipation of the impending severe cyclonic storm 'Dana,' set to make landfall in Odisha after midnight.

India on Friday dispatched the first tranche of 11 tons of medical supplies to Lebanon as part of a humanitarian effort to support the nation amid rising tensions and the ongoing conflict in southern Lebanon.

More than two dozen people were injured when the Mysuru-Darbhanga Express rammed a stationary goods train at Kavarapettai in the Chennai Division of Southern Railway on October 11.

India Meteorological Department officials said a low-pressure area that formed over the Bay of Bengal was the trigger for the widespread rainfall.

Former Indian cricket team star Ajay Jadeja was declared the next Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, also known as Jamnagar, a princely state in the historical Halar region on the southern shores of the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat.

The railway derailment in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur - after a passenger train travelling at 75 km per hour rammed into a stationary goods train - was caused by a "mismatch between signal and route", RN Singh, General Manager of Southern Railways, said.

More than 1,500 brand new scooters purchased so that meritorious girls from poor families could continue their higher education are slowly turning to scrap in two colleges in Banswara in southern Rajasthan.

Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah was in a bunker in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh when it was hit by Israeli bombs last week.

A recent fire at Tata Group's Apple iPhone component plant in southern India has caused an indefinite production halt at Tata's Hosur plant in Tamil Nadu, the only Indian supplier of iPhone back panels and some other parts for both contract manufacturer Foxconn in the country and its own iPhone assembly at another plant.

China's Lenovo Group will start making artificial intelligence (AI) servers at its plant in southern India and opened an AI servers-focussed R&D lab in the tech hub of Bengaluru, the electronics hardware maker said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of Samsung Electronics employees went on a strike at a plant in southern India for a second day on Tuesday. They put up tents outside the factory in Sriperumbudur near the city of Chennai as they prepared to boycott work.

Heroes don't always wear capes, sometimes they operate bulldozers. Haryana's Subhan Khan has emerged as a real-life hero in Telangana after he rescued nine people marooned on a bridge amid the raging floods in the southern state