India

An illustrative photo of students at a Jewish day school. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

February 15, 2019, 11:27 pm

Jewish Sunday schools pop up across Europe and Asia

Newest school opens in Bulgaria as part of program by Euro-Asian Jewish Congress to expand Jewish learning

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Netanyahu arrives in India on January 14, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

January 30, 2019, 5:51 pm

PM to make one-day trip to India next month — report

In Delhi, Netanyahu expected to meet Narendra Modi before heading to Warsaw to attend US-organized summit on Iran; he may also go to Munich

By Raphael Ahren

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, center, the US general secretary of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, talks to followers inside her camp at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India, January 16, 2019. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP)

January 22, 2019, 9:12 am

Jewish woman from California among worshipers at India’s religious mega festival

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, US head of a global clean water group, is one of millions at Kumbh Mela event, held at confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers

By AFP and TOI staff

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers launch a Spike anti-tank guided missile during a training exercise. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

December 9, 2018, 8:08 pm

India said planning to scrap $500 million missile deal with Israel

Massive sale was already called off last year in favor of domestic weapons development, but resurrected after diplomatic push by Netanyahu

By Tamar Pileggi

December 5, 2018, 4:45 pm

Rahul Dutta

Israeli technologies are making self-driving cars safer

The idea of breezy commutes where autonomous vehicles will make road accidents a thing of the past is garnering a lot of public interest

Mumbai's Chabad House, where Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his 28-year-old wife Rivka, were killed by Islamist terrorists attack, seen here on December 25 2008. (Serge Attal/ Flash90)

November 27, 2018, 1:40 pm

Israel calls on Pakistan to bring terrorists behind Mumbai attack to justice

At 10-year commemoration hosted by India’s Tel Aviv embassy, grandfather of orphaned Moshe Holtzberg says November 2008 massacre was attack ‘against all of us’

By Raphael Ahren

Indian police officers pay tribute to the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks at a memorial in Mumbai, India on Nov. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

November 26, 2018, 12:27 pm

Mumbai attacks anniversary draws solemn tributes and new pressure on Pakistan

As India marks 10 years since Islamist gunmen killed 166 people in 3-day rampage, US makes new reward offer for terrorists” capture

By Peter HUTCHISON

Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel burns in Mumbai, India, Thursday, November 27, 2008. (AP/Gautam Singh)

November 26, 2018, 3:12 am

US offers new $5 million reward for capture of Mumbai attackers

Ten years after deadly assault left 166 dead, including several Israelis at Chabad house, secretary of state urges Pakistan to bring planners to justice

By AFP

American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince, 39, in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2018, days before he left for in a remote Indian island of North Sentinel Island, where he was killed. (AP Photo/Sarah Prince)

November 24, 2018, 6:42 am

American missionary wrote ‘God sheltered me’ before trip turned deadly

John Chau, who was killed in a hail of arrows as he illegally set foot on North Sentinel Island, believed he received divine help dodging authorities to reach isolated Indian tribe

By AP and TOI staff

November 22, 2018, 12:01 pm

American missionary killed in India ‘grasped the humanity of Jesus’ in Israel

Christian travel organization says John Chau visited Jerusalem and heard from a Holocaust survivor during a 2015 visit, which he said later had strengthened his faith

By TOI staff and Agencies

November 18, 2018, 6:38 pm

Sandipan Dasgupta

Israeli tech can assuage India’s worst water crisis

Despite the geographical heterogeneity across India, water scarcity is a recurring issue, with a report noting that some 600 million Indians are living in extreme water stress

Iranians drivers fill their tanks at a gas station in the capital Tehran on November 5, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

November 5, 2018, 6:49 pm

US exempts China, India, Japan and 5 other countries from Iran oil sanctions

America’s top diplomat defends waivers, vows to be ‘relentless’ in pressuring Tehran

By AFP

SpiceJet inaugurates first flight using Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) TaxiBot, shown attached to the craft, on Oct 29, 2018 (Courtesy)

November 1, 2018, 3:48 pm

Indian flight uses IAI’s TaxiBot to cut fuel costs, pollution

SpiceJet plane takes off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi; additional Indian airlines evaluating the bot, IAI says

By Shoshanna Solomon

The body of a victim of a train accident lies covered in cloth on a railway track in Amritsar, India, Oct. 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)

October 19, 2018, 8:38 pm

At least 50 dead after train runs over crowd in India

Train hits large group of people standing on railway line to watch a fireworks show in northern city of Amritsar during Hindu holiday

By AFP

Illustrative: An IndiGo airline Airbus A320. (Wikipedia/BriYYZ/CC BY-SA)

September 26, 2018, 5:48 pm

Indian passenger removed for trying to charge phone in cockpit

A different case on another airline in India sees first-time flier try to open rear exit door after mistaking it for restroom

By AFP