West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discharged from a state-run hospital in Kolkata today following improvement in her condition, two days after she was injured while campaigning ahead of the assembly polls in Nandigram.

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under procurement rules due to come into force in June.

Injured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a video message from hospital bed, said that she would return to the assembly election campaign trail in two to three days and also urged her supporters to maintain peace and restraint.

The condition of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital following the attack on her in Nandigram, was “stable”, a doctor attending to her said today.

Stressing the need for South Asian regional power co-operation, India yesterday said it was exploring with Bangladesh a proposal for supplying refined-LNG through cross-border pipeline and establishment of an LNG terminal.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked yesterday by about 4-5 people in Nandigram where she had gone to file her nomination for the upcoming Assembly elections, reports said.

West Bengal state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked by about 4-5 people in Nandigram where she had gone to file her nomination for the upcoming Assembly elections, according to the latest news coming in from the politically charged up state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today filed her nomination from the high-profile Nandigram assembly constituency in East Midnapore district where she will be pitted against her former protege and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.

India today summoned the British High Commissioner in New Delhi to express its “strong opposition” to the “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” on agricultural reform laws which has sparked farmers’ protests in the country.

Over the past few years, Narendra Modi's government has racked up pressure on global tech companies, imposing stringent restrictions on the conduct of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in India.

Thousands of women joined protests by farmers on the outskirts of Delhi on Monday to mark International Women’s Day, demanding the scrapping of new laws that open up agriculture produce markets to private buyers.

Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process has begun to deport them back to Myanmar, two officials said on Sunday.

Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty joined India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today and shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a mega rally in Kolkata ahead of the coming assembly elections in the state beginning later this month.

Indian farmers began gathering on Saturday to block a six-lane expressway outside New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against deregulation of agriculture markets, to add pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced she will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state from Nandigram constituency.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.

The Taj Mahal in Agra was briefly shut and tourists were evacuated his morning after Uttar Pradesh Police received a call about a bomb at the iconic monument. The call was made to the police helpline, NDTV reports.

India today allowed all private hospitals with adequate facilities to serve as Covid-19 vaccination centres as its expanded inoculation drive entered the second day.

Experts say that the relatively low hospitalisation and fatality rates in India suggest the coronavirus pandemic is approaching its next phase - largely manageable local outbreaks.

India yesterday announced a ceiling price Rs 250 per dose of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by private hospitals as the country aims to exponentially expand the ambit of its inoculation drive from tomorrow.