A minibus driver who was killed in the M1 crash in England has been described as an "extraordinary father" who would do anything for his friends.

Two men have been charged in connection with the M1 crash in which eight people were killed.

We’ve had a charming new voice in food here at the Ballymaloe Cookery School recently, a young Anglo Indian girl named Maunika Gowardhan, whose simple, delicious, and authentic recipes have enchanted even Jamie Oliver. In 2014, she did a FoodTube video with Jamie on her butter chicken, writes Darina Allen. 

An Indian man who survived the Dubai plane crash last week has been dubbed the “world’s luckiest man” after he won a $1m lottery just six days later.

Thompson Holidays has the Greek destinations of Rhodes, Kos and Zakynthos on offer in August at decent prices.

A massive fire broke out during a fireworks display in a Hindu temple in south India this morning, killing more than 100 people and injuring at least 200 others, officials said.

TAMIL NADU in South India, particularly the Chettinad area, is a ‘road much less travelled’ than many of the trendier tourist destinations like Goa, Rajasthan and Kerala but intriguing, particularly for those who have a penchant for temples, architecture and of course food. 

Soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,100 people dead over the past month, officials said.

Soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,100 people dead over the past month, officials said.

Giving up drink for little over six weeks left 27-year-old Sarah Duffy feeling energetic, focused and uplifted.

AVE we Irish got a taste for spices or what! Thirty years ago, when I first started the Ballymaloe Cookery School, garlic was still considered by many to be daring and exotic.

Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India today aboard a special flight, officials said.

An Indian court has sentenced to death three men who raped a photojournalist inside an abandoned textile mill in the financial hub of Mumbai last year.

Archaeologists have begun digging for treasure beneath a 19th century fort in northern India after a popular Hindu holy man said a former king appeared to him in a dream and told him about it.

At least 13 people have been killed as a bus fell into a gorge after hitting a roadside tree in southern India.

Highlights include the season three debut of The Walking Dead and a new documentary on Margaret Thatcher's links with Ireland.

A man in southern India has been charged after allowing his nine-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, police in southern India said today.

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A VAST treasure trove of gold coins, jewels and precious stones unearthed at a lightly guarded Hindu temple in India was expected to grow further in value as the last two secret vaults sealed for nearly 150 years are opened.

THERE are times when airlines get away with blue murder as far as passenger rights are concerned.

A stampede of pilgrims returning from one of India’s most popular Hindu festivals killed at least 102 people and injured 44 others, officials said today.

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Trains and planes were halted across India today by strikes in protest at fuel price rises.

INVESTIGATORS searching for clues as to what caused India’s worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the charred remains of an Air India flight.

Investigators frantically sifted through the rubble of a crashed plane today looking for the black boxes – the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – after India’s worst air crash in more than a decade killed 158 people.

A boat carrying 74 tourists capsized on a reservoir in southern India today, killing at least 31 people and leaving dozens missing, police said.

INCREDIBLE INDIA hopes to take advantage of the exposure this vast country has received since the latest round of Oscar awards.

An Indian wildlife centre is embroiled in a legal row over the use of legendary crocodile hunter Steve Irwin’s name in its title, it was reported today.

Protests erupted in India and Malaysia today over sharp fuel price rises that could undermine governments in both countries.

Protests erupted in India and Malaysia today over sharp fuel price rises that could undermine governments in both countries.

I first came across this dish in Kerala but I was interested to find it is also a much-loved dish in Bengal.

I first came across this dish in Kerala but I was interested to find it is also a much-loved dish in Bengal.

CHARLIE Wilkins, the well known gardening columnist, will be leading an unusual Mediterranean cruise in September. The trip will include a flight from Cork to Barcelona, with two nights on terra firma, and seven further days and nights on the high seas, with the liner calling into such ports as Nice, Pisa/Florence, Rome, Naples and Sicily.

A SCHOOL in southern India allowed a group of HIV-positive children back to class yesterday after a six-month battle that has highlighted the stigma suffered by the country’s Aids sufferers.

At least 18 children and four teachers drowned today and more than a dozen more children were missing after a boat carrying the group on a school trip capsized.

India’s federal government is to supply emergency equipment to southern areas of the country hit by a rare, mosquito-borne fever that has killed at least 81 people in the past month, the health minister said.

At least 71 people have died over the past month from a mosquito-borne virus and 40,000 more may be infected in India’s southern state of Kerala, health officials said today.

Rains triggered landslides, snapped electricity cables and inundated a parts of northern India, pushing the death toll from monsoon rains to 114.

India’s death toll from a week of monsoon rains rose to 66 while tens of thousands of people have been forced to seek refuge in makeshift relief camps, news reports said today.

OUR driver wended his way through the narrow bustling streets of old Fort Cochin. I had given him the address of Maria George, an Indian cookery teacher who had promised to teach me some Keralan dishes.

Thoren is Kerala’s best known dish. Cabbage, carrots, pumpkin and beans can be used in this Keralean vegetable dish. Grated cabbage and carrots and finely sliced beans can be mixed, but pumpkin should be kept separate.

India’s former President KR Narayanan, the first “untouchable” from the caste system to occupy the country’s highest office in a validation of its democratic roots, died today. He was 85.