At least 67 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said on Friday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds of villages.

A Trinamool Congress member of the Rajya Sabha, Shantanu Sen, was today suspended for the remaining period of the month-long monsoon session.

India has reported the first human death due to Avian influenza as an 11-year-old boy succumbed to the virus H5N1 in Gurugram, a satellite city of Delhi, in Haryana state.

If ‘Khela Hobe’ slogan by Trinamul Congress set the ball rolling for the 2021 Bengal assembly polls, then this time it will set the pitch for 2024 parliamentary elections to oust the BJP from Centre, declared the Bengal chief minister and Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee as she announced that the state will observe ‘Khela Hobe Diwas’ on August 16.

To quell the growing debate surrounding Indian parliament’s youngest cabinet member Nisith Kumar Pramanik’s citizenship, a visit was paid to his ancestral home in Gaibandha where his family alleviated concerns and reiterated that he is in fact Indian.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said since coronavirus vaccines are injected in the arms, those who take it become “Baahubali”.

At least 23 people were killed after several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India’s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said yesterday.

Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday said there is no ban on the sacrifice of animals during the upcoming Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, a day after the government asked law enforcers to stop the sacrifice of cows, calves, camels and other animals.

Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday said there is no ban on the sacrifice of animals during the upcoming Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, a day after the government asked law enforcers to stop the sacrifice of cows, calves, camels and other animals.

An Indian lawmaker of the main opposition Congress has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to probe allegations that Minister of State for Home in the federal government Nisith Pramanik, from West Bengal, is a Bangladeshi national.

West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of trying to "saffronize” the school education after the Uttar Pradesh government's move to omit the works of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and India’s legendary scholar Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan from the syllabus for class 10 and 12.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said that all gaps in the country’s border fencing will be filled by next year to completely stop infiltration and other anti-national activities.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today noted with concern the fast-rising number of Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and many other countries and said “this should alert us and the world.”

One more suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative was arrested from Barasat near Kolkata, Indian police said today.

When Indian parliament begins its monsoon session on July 19, lawmakers will be protected against Covid-19 by the latest technology to mitigate airborne transmission of the virus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday against overcrowding at tourist sites after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) warned that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is “inevitable” and “imminent” and alerted the state governments against allowing potential “super-spreader” events. 

More than 50 people were killed in lightning strikes across several states in India, authorities said Monday, including 11 people at a historic fort. 

An al-Qaeda offshoot in Kashmir planned attacks in northern India ahead of the country’s Independence Day, police claimed after arresting two men with alleged links to the group on Sunday.

Over 50 people, including children, were killed by lightning in northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday, police said today.

Three suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists were arrested from Kolkata's Haridebpur locality today, said the police.