Suspected rebels killed an Indian army officer and a trooper during a manhunt in Kashmir, where 22 people have died in spiralling violence in the past two weeks, officials said yesterday.

China and Bhutan signed an MoU Thursday for what they called a “Three-step roadmap” for expediting the boundary negotiations and which according to Thimphu will provide fresh impetus to talks and can bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion acceptable to both sides.

The Indian Border Security Force’s jurisdiction of operation has been extended from 15km to 50km inside the international border and its officers have been given the power to arrest and seize in the three border states of West Bengal, Assam and Punjab in a bid to crack down on smuggling including that of narcotics.

Indian Border Security Force’s jurisdiction of operation has been extended from 15km to 50km inside the international border and its officers have been given the power to arrest and seize in the three border states of West Bengal, Assam and Punjab in a bid to crack down on smuggling including that of narcotics.

India has resumed a small amount of exports of Covid-19 vaccines and will increase exports significantly in the next few months as domestic stocks build up and most of its own large population is inoculated, officials said yesterday.

A laser show at Kolkata’s much-hyped Durga Puja pandal, modeled after Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, has courted controversy over its laser lighting.

Government forces killed five suspected rebels in India-administered Kashmir, police said yesterday, a day after militants shot dead five soldiers.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today cautioned against “selective interpretation” of human rights and looking at the issue through political prism to diminish the country’s image.

At least 95-100 Right to Information (RTI) applicants have been killed while 190 were attacked in India in the last 15-16 years, according to a report by Transparency International India (TII).

An officer and four soldiers of the Indian army were killed in an encounter with terrorists during an anti-militancy operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district today, officials said.

“Bhaager Maa”, meaning “mother divided”, is the theme that South Kolkata’s Barisha Club chose for this year’s Durga Puja pandal, according to a report of Hindustan Times.

The son of an Indian minister has been arrested on preliminary charges of murder, police said yesterday, a week after the death of eight people during a farmers’ protest sparked national outrage. 

India today dismissed any possibility of a major countrywide disruption in electricity supply due to “shortage” of coal, terming it as “entirely misplaced fears” and stressing that “ample coal is available in the country to meet the demand of power plants”.

With India aiming to vaccinate its entire adult population of 94 crores by end of 2021, the government today announced the imposition of Quantitative Restrictions (QR) on the export of three categories of syringes, used in administering Covid-19 vaccines, for three months to ensure their availability in the domestic market.

India’s leading salt-to-software manufacturing conglomerate Tata Sons (Tatas) won the bid to acquire 100 percent shares in debt-laden state-run Air India for 18,000 crore rupees, a senior government official said today.

India will reopen for tourists from October 15 after being closed for more than a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government said yesterday.

India today said it would start granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming by chartered flights from October 15 and foreign tourists coming by non-chartered flights from November 15.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as a member of the state legislative assembly today, a week after she won the by-poll in the Bhabanipur constituency in south Kolkata by a record margin.

India’s Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari plans to make it mandatory for ambulances across the country have instrumental sounds instead of wailing sirens.

The Gauhati High Court has taken cognisance of the eviction drive at Dhalpur in Assam’s Darrang district that claimed two lives on September 23.