THE NEWS: The former head of Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica, accused by prosecutors of making bribery part of the company culture, went on trial Wednesday for his alleged role in the payment of bribes to secure a crucial helicopter deal in India. Full story
A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said Wednesday. Full story
PUNE, India (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors <TAMO.NS> on Wednesday launched eight upgrades of existing models, including a CNG-fuelled version of its low-cost Nano, but said little about plans for completely new vehicles to help reverse sliding car sales in India. Full story
At least 69 people have died and two dozen remain missing as monsoon rains flood parts of India and create landslides along the Ganges River.. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Full story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of more than 170 U.S. lawmakers joined with a coalition of U.S. business groups on Tuesday to demand increased U.S. pressure on India to change policies that they said threaten American exports, jobs and innovation. Full story
Top headlines right now, with CNBC's Tyler Mathisen, and Niall Ferguson, Harvard economist. Floods in India claim 70 lives, and authorities are searching a Michigan field for the remains of union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and killed at least 23 people in Northern India. According to reports, dozens more are still missing.
It’s been discovered that Prince William could be the first British monarch to have Indian ancestry from his mother’s Princess Diana's ancestry. DNA tests reveal his great, great, great, great, great grandmother was a housekeeper in Bombay. ITV’s Nina Nannar reports how scientists tracked down his A
Watch the second part of Alex Wagner’s exclusive interview with former President Clinton as he talks about the Clinton Global Initiative’s economic revitalization efforts.
At least five people were killed after a portion of a four-story residential building collapsed in Mumbai, India. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
People carry oil lamps as they pray for the flood victims in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, outside a temple in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 19, 2013. Early monsoon rains have swollen the Ganges, India's longest river, swept away houses, killed at least 60 people and left tens of t
Phul Kumari, 25, stands with her child in front of a window in a village community center in in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh in 2011. From a poor rural community in India's Jharkhand state, Kumari was trafficked to Uttar Pradesh as a bride for her husband and has been repeatedly raped b
Vehicles are submerged in the rising waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi June 19, 2013. The rains are at least twice as heavy as usual in northwest and central India as the June-September monsoon spreads north, covering the whole country a month faster than normal. REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA - Tags: DI
A stranded mouse rests on a stick next to the rising waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi June 19, 2013. The rains are at least twice as heavy as usual in northwest and central India as the June-September monsoon spreads north, covering the whole country a month faster than normal. REUTERS/Anindito M
