At least 18 people, mostly farm labourers, were killed and 25 injured when a truck rammed into a stationary double-decker bus in India’s Barabanki district of Utttar Pradesh state, police said today.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence in New Delhi, their first meeting after the West Bengal state polls.

A Harappan-era city in the Rann of Kutch in western Indian state of Gujarat, was today declared India’s 40th Unesco World Heritage site.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police arrested three persons today, including the gang leader, responsible for trafficking women and children from Bangladesh and Myanmar to India with forged documents.

The Indian Home Ministry told the parliament that it has sought six more months till January 9, 2022, to frame rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Rescuers waded through waist-deep mud in western India yesterday to reach injured residents and start a massive clean-up after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 159 people.

Six police officers from Assam were killed in the fresh violence that broke out yesterday at the disputed Assam-Mizoram border, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said.

“... I hope this small step will wake up others. We want it to start as soon as possible. Many people from Bengal have been tapped.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday announced the setting up a committee comprising retired judges Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya to probe the Pegasus spyware controversy.

At least six personnel of Assam Police were killed in firing by miscreants from neighbouring Mizoram today as the border dispute between the two adjacent north eastern Indian states took an unprecedented violent turn.

India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit beginning on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said after Washington said he planned to raise New Delhi's human rights record.

India has no plan to print new banknotes to tide over the economic fallout triggered by Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the parliament today.

Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rode a tractor to the parliament today -- protesting the three contentious farm laws.

Asking for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus controversy, India’s senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the government should either go for the investigation or appoint a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to take the issue further.

Nine people were killed by a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradeshin yesterday as boulders fell and hit the vehicle they were travelling in, news agency ANI reported.

Parts of India’s west coast have received up to 594 mm (23 inches) of rain, forcing authorities to move people out of vulnerable areas as they released water from dams about to overflow. The hill station of Mahabaleshwar recorded its highest ever rainfall - 60 cm in 24 hours.

Indian income tax authorities tonight said it has found tax “evasion” of Rs 700 crore over six years by the Dainik Bhaskar business group whose leading Hindi newspaper and TV channel were critical of the government’s Covid handling.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been named the new chairperson of the parliamentary party of Trinamool Congress in a move aimed at giving her a higher national profile ahead of next parliamentary elections in 2024. 

Indian tax authorities have raided a prominent newspaper and a TV channel that have been critical of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, triggering accusations of intimidation. 

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s main political rival Rahul Gandhi yesterday demanded an inquiry into the Pegasus spyware scandal, accusing the government of “treason”, according to an AFP report.