No individual in India can be forced to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the country’s Supreme Court said today.

Senior diplomat Vinay Mohan Kwatra, known for his expertise in dealing with India’s South Asian neighbourhood, today took charge as the country’s new foreign secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla who retired from the service.

“Unplanned” cargo loading by the staff of Bangladeshi container vessel MV Marintrust-01 resulted into its capsize at Shyamaprasad Mukhopadhyay port in India’s Kolkata on March 24, according to a preliminary probe.

The Agartala-Kolkata bus service via Dhaka, which was scheduled to resume from today (April 28, 2022) after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was postponed minutes before restart owing to "technical reasons", Agartala city Mayor Dipak Majumder said.

Indian American supermodel and author Padma Lakshmi recently took to Twitter to assert that there is "no threat to Hinduism in India" and protest "violence against Muslims in the country".

India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday, as New Delhi sweltered in extreme heat and a burning landfill on the outskirts of the capital spewed toxic smoke into the air.

The former commandant of India’s Border Security Force Satish Kumar has been shown arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to alleged cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal state, the Enforcement Directorate said today (April 25. 2022).

India’s prime minister yesterday promised peace and development for Jammu and Kashmir, during his first public event in the disputed territory since it imposed a sweeping security clampdown nearly three years ago.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters on the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

Thirteen undocumented Rohingya immigrants, including women and children, were arrested in West Bengal state's New Jalpaiguri railway station when they headed back to their camps in Bangladesh, police said.

The United Kingdom and India have agreed to step up defence and business cooperation, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicating a bilateral free-trade deal could be wrapped up by October this year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effusive about the warm welcome he got in India, prompting him to describe his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as a “khaas dost” and gushed that he felt like Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.

Two foreigners, suspected to be Ukrainian nationals, have been detained by police at Badarpur Railway Station in northeastern Indian state Assam as they were disembarked from a train for travelling without valid documents, a police officer said today (April 22, 2022)

In view of a spurt in coronavirus cases in the city, the New Delhi government yesterday made wearing of masks mandatory in public places and imposed a fine

A mutual charm offensive was on display between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus at an international event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat state.

Sixty-three Bangalee Hindu families who had migrated to India in the 1970s from the then East Pakistan, were on Tuesday (April 19, 2022) handed papers for houses and agricultural land in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh state.

The number of India’s daily Covid-19 cases crossed the 2,000-mark once again with 2,067 new infections reported in 24 hours, according to the data by Indian health ministry.

A Mumbai court granted bail to three students in the case relating to Bulli Bai app, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", holding that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".

The Editors Guild of India today asked media outlets of the country to exercise utmost restraint while reporting incidents of communal disturbances and not become pawns in the larger game of polarization.

India’s daily Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, ending this morning, registered a big decline with 1,247 infections being reported in a day.