At least 12 people were killed and 14 injured in a stampede caused by a surge of devotees on the New Year's Day at a famous hill-top Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian media reported today.

India hit out at China for giving “invented” names to several places in a disputed Himalayan region on their border as Beijing looks to assert sovereignty over the territory.

The Indian government yesterday extended a special law giving armed forces sweeping powers in the north-eastern state of Nagaland, days after a botched army ambush killed 14 people.

India’s tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the highest toll since it began compiling data a decade ago. The

The large brass statue of Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, which was installed at a park in Calangute village on the beach of the Arabian Sea in Goa has triggered a controversy over his Portuguese linkage in a state which was once a colony of Portugal.

India has moved to cut off foreign funding to a charity founded by Mother Teresa, a decision critics described as further evidence of harassment

An Indian court urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to suspend political rallies and election campaigns in poll-bound states amid the rising number of Omicron cases, a variant of Covid-19.

India has officially reached out to Myanmar for the first time since the February 1 military coup to prescribe its military ruler to return to democracy and end all violence at the earliest.

Two people were killed and two others injured after a powerful explosion ripped through an Indian court building yesterday, police said. Footage

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and 3,117 of them were granted the citizenship, India’s Junior Minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha yesterday.

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim persons from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and of them, 3,117 were granted citizenship, India’s junior minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha today.

A government school in India’s Kerala has given birth to a row for allowing its female students to wear trousers. The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in the town of Balussery has recently decided to let its students wear unisex uniforms -- shirt and pant, reports BBC.

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) yesterday chalked up a landslide victory in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections,

In a major boost to the country’s air defence capabilities, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is deploying the first squadron of the Russia-made S-400 air

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for questioning in a case related to the 2016 “Panama Papers” global tax leak case.

A man was beaten to death in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after he allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act inside the historic Golden Temple, one of Sikhs’ most revered shrines.

India today successfully tested a new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the eastern state of Odisha.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday stayed all proceedings before the Madan B Lokur Commission, appointed by the West Bengal government, to inquire into the Pegasus controversy despite the state promising to hold its hand when the apex court was seized of the issue and awaiting report from its technical expert panel headed by Justice RV Raveendran, a former SC judge.

The Indian government has cleared a proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, according to media reports, as women’s rights activists fear the move could lead to a “real disaster”.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday said his country would remain closely connected with its Bangladeshi friends to jointly achieve development and prosperity.