Some 270m people there live below the poverty line, many of them without running water or proper shelter, and thus unable to protect themselves from the heat, says Gulrez Shah Azhar.

I’m in my 40s, and I’ve started dating a man in his 20s. We’re having a wonderful time — but sadly not in bed. When we start to have sex there are no problems at all, but he quickly loses his erection during intercourse.

AS rookies in the international men’s Test cricket league, Ireland’s XI might have hoped for understrength opponents for their debut five-day contest in Dublin next May; the West Indies, currently, just aren’t cutting it. 

An Indian TV news reporter has been abducted and killed while covering a protest rally in the remote north-eastern state of Tripura.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, posted a tweet last week looking for philanthropic ideas. The thought of having billions to manage freaks me out but after a cold shower and some meditation I settled in sorting out Jeff’s request.

Apple has put back on the table a request to sell used iPhones in India as it negotiates with the government for concessions to start production in the country.

Ikea Group has laid out plans to accelerate its expansion in China and open its first store in India as the world’s largest furniture retailer seeks to boost sales by almost 50% over the next four years.

An Indian couple faked a Mount Everest ascent earlier this year by altering photographs to make it appear they were on the summit, according to Nepalese mountaineering authorities.

Two Irish teachers have been catapulted to celebrity status in India thanks to a bizarre chain of events involving the Donegal football team and an honourable rickshaw driver.

Prime minister Narendra Modi is clearing the way for Apple to open its first retail store in India after repeated delays, according to people familiar with the matter.

The OnePlus 3 is launching on the 14th of June and fans will be able to get hands on with the phones at locations around the world shortly afterwards.

A leopard has wandered into a school in southern India and injured three people as it tried to escape, officials said.

Dope!

England’s Danny Willett shot a five-under par 65 to win his third European Tour title in the Omega European Masters in Switzerland.

Far removed from the main Air India commemoration in Ahakista, a number of people prayed in a Cork city cemetery yesterday to ensure two victims were not forgotten.

A key challenge for Kerry Group will be to meet ever-changing tastes and trends among consumers, chief executive Stan McCarthy yesterday told the food giant’s AGM, in Tralee.

IDA Ireland staff clocked up bills of almost €640,000 in airline tickets last year as they secured 197 new investments from investors across the world.

A couple of Red Bull stunt pilots somehow managed to escape with their lives after a startling mid-air collision at an Indian air show.

Some Ireland cricketers love the attention that playing in a World Cup brings. 

When O’Brien walked out to bat in Bangalore during the 2011 World Cup, Ireland needed 222 runs to win in 27.4 overs and England’s fielders were already going through the motions.

Ireland intend to take their giant-killing knack to the next stage at the World Cup, by qualifying for the knockout rounds in New Zealand and Australia.

In 2007, Irish cricket first announced itself to the world when Pakistan were defeated in the World Cup in Jamaica. Four years later, England were toppled in Bangalore to confirm Ireland’s upward march.

When Ireland take the field against the West Indies in their first match of the 2015 ICC World Cup in New Zealand on Monday (Sunday, 10pm Irish time), they will be cheered on by more than the handful of green onesied or leprechaun-costumed travelling fans in the 5,000 crowd at the Saxton Oval, Nelson. 

Eleven people were killed and dozens of others injured when a train derailed after hitting a boulder that had fallen on to the track in southern India, officials said.

William Porterfield, one of five in the squad set to take part in a third World Cup for Ireland, will lead the same group of players named last month for the training camp and tri-series in Dubai against fellow qualifiers Scotland and Afghanistan.

Set within the historic grounds of a renovated gun powdered mills just metres from the buzzing village vibe of downtown Ballincollig, at first sight it’s hard to believe that you’ve arrived at one of the world’s biggest software multi-nationals. VMware Cork: a working utopia? Evelyn Kerge, for one, seems to think so.

A cat among the dogs: leopard diet in a human-dominated landscape is the intriguing title of an article published in September by Vidya Athreya, an ecologist with the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore. 

Irish engineering and project management firm, PM Group yesterday reported turnover of €355.5m to the end of 2013, a significant increase on the €193m generated the previous year.

India will soon know if its first interplanetary mission will achieve its goal, when a spacecraft built with home-grown technology for a remarkably low price tag of US $75m begins its final manoeuvres into orbit around Mars.

A schoolboy has become a limbo legend by rollerskating under a record-breaking 39 cars in a row-

We had no idea that 'limbo skating' was even a thing. But this kid is seriously good at it.

Police in India have arrested the head of a school where a six-year-old girl was raped and charged him with hindering the investigation.

Four-year-old Indian Icon, winner of his maiden hurdle in Killarney last month, captured the featured Carmel Fay Memorial Handicap Hurdle in Kilbeggan last night under a well-judged ride by Mark Enright.

The IDA is posting 35 executives in key locations around the world in an effort to win extra investment and create 10,000 jobs over the next three years.

A Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 passengers on board made an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur yesterday in another blow to the flag-carrier’s safety image after the loss of flight MH370.

A fire engulfed two coaches of an express train in southern India today, killing at least 26 passengers, officials said.

India’s Mars orbiter mission ventured out of Earth’s sphere of influence early today in an attempt to reach the red planet’s orbit.

An Indian court found a dentist couple guilty of murdering their 14-year-old daughter and a servant five years ago, in a dramatic finale to a case that transfixed the country and tapped unease on both sides of the rich-poor divide.

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

South African asks court to change bail so he can have loud sex