At least 2,000 people were evacuated yesterday after a massive landslide in India’s ecologically fragile Himalayan north blocked a major river, officials said. 

An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to fire fully yesterday, the state-run space agency said, in a setback for the country’s space programme,

India’s opposition leaders yesterday held a protest march towards Vijay Chowk from Parliament against an abrupt end to the monsoon session and a repeal of the Centre’s three farm laws.

A northeastern Indian state that has for years been a big transit point for illicit drugs originating in neighbouring Myanmar has launched a massive crackdown on the trade, seizing record amounts and arresting nearly 2,000 people since May.

Rescuers were working to clear tonnes of rocks and mud Wednesday after a landslide buried about 60 people in India’s Himalayan north, killing at least 10.

All Indian Visa Application Centres (VACs) in Bangladesh  resume operations today as the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have been eased.

The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the “highest in police stations”, Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function on Sunday, expressing concern about custodial torture, reports NDTV online.

More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of “ye azadi jhoota hai,”  the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country’s independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag in all its party offices.

More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of “ye azadi jhoota hai”, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country’s independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag at all its party offices.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested five people for allegedly posting defamatory content against judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court

The Congress yesterday said its leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account had been “temporarily locked” after the social media platform countered the

India yesterday gave emergency approval to Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine to ramp up its flailing immunisation campaign as new wave of infections fuelled by Delta variant of coronavirus continues to spread across the globe.  

India’s counter-terrorism organization, National Investigation Agency (NIA), has taken over the probe into a case related to three Bangladeshi nationals entering India illegally and allegedly hatching a conspiracy to wage a conflict by recruiting and motivating vulnerable Muslim youth against the governments of India and Bangladesh.

Bangalees who migrated to what is now the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district are finally getting a chance to live without the tag of “East Pakistan” in caste certificates issued to them to avail social welfare schemes.

In a major step towards de-escalating their military standoff, India and China have carried out disengagement of their troops from eyeball-to-eyeball position at the key patrol point at Gogra Post in eastern Ladakh.

The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested another member of the human-trafficking gang involving Rohingyas and Bangladeshis from Hyderabad in southern India.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday said the allegations of Pegasus-related snooping are serious if the reports on it are true.

Hundreds of extra police and troops were deployed in the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday as separatist groups called for a shutdown to mark a “black day” on the second anniversary of New Delhi imposing direct rule.

Mauritius has denied a report that it has allowed India to build a military base on the remote island of Agalega, with a government official telling AFP that no such agreement exists between the two nations.

When unbridled oppression is unleashed & gross injustice heaped there is no other choice but to resist to exist. Mehbooba Mufti, Former Kashmir CM, ahead of 2nd anniversary of New Delhi imposed direct rule on Indian Kashmir