India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered an independent investigation into the alleged government use of Pegasus spyware on journalists, opposition politicians and activists with the chief justice calling the implications “Orwellian”.

Sadhguru -- an internationally revered Indian yoga teacher, author and public speaker -- recently, while answering a question, has said that it is not fair to say attacks on temples and Hindus are happening “in” Bangladesh, as such statement might indicate that it is happening “all over the country”.

The Bharatiya Janata Party government of Karnataka state has told the Indian Supreme Court that it has no immediate plan to deport the 72 Rohingyas in its jurisdiction.

India’s health authorities are on alert as Covid genomic surveillance experts reported some cases of a new sub-lineage of SARS CoV 2’s Delta variant, which is potentially more infectious, in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states.

Indian paramilitaries shot dead a civilian in Kashmir on Sunday, residents said, as authorities tightened security across the disputed territory for a visit by a top Indian minister. 

Nearly 200 people have died in floods and landslides in India and Nepal, officials said yesterday, with whole families buried in their homes and two young girls swept away as forecasters warned of yet more heavy rain.

India administered its one billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose yesterday as it fights its way back from a devastating surge in cases that brought the health system close to collapse, but cases surged in China and Russia.

India today reached a major milestone in its Covid-19 vaccination drive as the number of doses administered across the country crossed the 100 crore (one billion) mark.

India today came out with revised guidelines for international arrivals into the country with effect from October 25 under which mandatory RT-PCR report showing samples tested as negative is required for passengers to board an international flight to India.

A man from Kottayam district in the South Indian state of Kerala has moved a petition with a court expressing dissatisfaction over his Covid-19 certificate bearing Indian Premier Narendra Modi’s photograph, reports BBC.

The death count in landslides and floods set off by incessant heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand mounted to 47 last night.

India has delayed committing supplies of vaccine to the Covax global sharing platform, two sources told Reuters yesterday, a day after one of its key backers, the WHO, said the agency could not “cut corners” to approve a domestically developed vaccine.

A statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva is pictured amid the risen water levels of River Ganga after incessant rains in Rishikesh in India’s

Chief Minister of India’s Tripura state, Biplab Kumar Deb, today expressed concern over attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh and said he felt these are part of a “conspiracy” to damage India-Bangladesh relations.

At least 16 people were killed as heavy rains pounded the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand since Sunday, triggering flash floods and landslides that buried houses and washed away bridges in several parts.

About 500 members and followers of ISKCON in India’s Kolkata sang kirtan outside the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Park Circus locality last evening protesting the attack on ISKCON temple in Noakhali last Friday.

At least 21 people were killed in flooding caused by heavy rains and landslides in hilly areas of southern Indian state of Kerala as rescue workers recovered more bodies from the debris yesterday.

At least 18 people were killed in flooding caused by heavy rains and landslides in hilly areas of southern Indian state of Kerala as rescue workers recovered more bodies from the debris today.

Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers’ protest in New Delhi said yesterday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the mutilated body was found strung up on a police barricade.

In the backdrop of repeated calls by dissident senior party leaders for an organizational overhaul, India’s main opposition party Congress yesterday announced it would have election for a president between August 21 and September 20 next year as Rahul Gandhi reportedly said he would consider returning as party head.