The Indian government backtracked Saturday after slapping a 48-hour ban on two TV channels for what officials called biased coverage of New Delhi riots.

The number of positive cases of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 in India has risen to 31 with the latest being reported from West Delhi, where the patient has a travel history to Thailand and Malaysia.

All primary schools in Delhi are ordered to be shut till March 31 in view of the coronavirus scare.

Indian government says police have arrested hundreds of people for their alleged involvement in the recent violence in Delhi, while a close watch is being kept on social media platforms to check rumours and unfounded propaganda.

India has reacted sharply to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights filing an intervention application in the Indian Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Although several Bollywood celebrities have already condemned the communal violence in Delhi that claimed 47 lives, big names like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have maintained silence -- leading fans to question their stance, reports Gulf News.

Bangladesh wants India to address the concerns of the Bangladeshi people caused by India’s “internal issues” and wants border killings brought down to zero, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

India lifts the five-month-old ban on the export of onions of all varieties with effect from March 15.

India reports two more cases of coronavirus, including one in New Delhi, taking the number of positive cases to five so far.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla says India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been misunderstood in many ways, adding that it was undertaken on “humanitarian grounds”.

Delhi Police deploy forces and imposed Section 144 in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area which has been the epicentre of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) agitation, as protesters have been sitting on the road since December 15 demanding the withdrawal of the act.

Voicing concern over the recent violence in north-east Delhi, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India is a secular country and people cannot be divided along religious lines.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will undertake a two-day visit to Dhaka from tomorrow with the primary objective of doing the spadework for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit for attending Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary celebrations on March 17.

All 112 people, including the 23 from Bangladesh, who are housed at a quarantine facility in India after they were evacuated from Wuhan in China, have tested negative for coronavirus.

The Indian state of Meghalaya imposed a curfew in capital Shillong and suspended mobile internet services in six districts after a person died in clashes over the controversial citizenship law, officials said today.

A section of teachers and students of Visva Bharati University offer legal assistance to the Bangladeshi student who was asked to leave India for engaging in “anti-government activities”.

Nine cultural organisations in Bangladesh express grave concerns over the clash and violence that erupted in Indian’s capital New Delhi between people for and against a new citizenship law.

At least 42 people have lost their lives and more than 250 are injured as armed mobs rampage through parts of northeast Delhi from Sunday till Tuesday, looting and burning buildings and attacking residents.

Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer S N Srivastava was appointed the new chief of Delhi Police today and will replace commissioner Amulya Patnaik who retires tomorrow, an Indian Home Ministry official told our New Delhi correspondent.

A Bangladeshi militant and an Indian belonging to Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror group have been convicted by a court in Kolkata on charges of money laundering and terror financing in connection with the Burdwan blast case of October, 2014.