The Assam government releases district-wise break down of figures and claims large-scale fudging of “legacy documents” by people in the districts bordering Bangladesh to get their names included in the document.

The Indian parliament-approved bill that outlaws instant triple talaq among Muslims has become law as President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to it, a government notification said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government scored significant legislative, political and ideological victories in getting the opposition-dominated Rajya Sabha nod to two key bills in the space of about four days.

Authorities in Southern India recover the body of coffee baron VG Siddhartha floating in a river, two days after his disappearance sparked speculation he was under intense financial strain.

Pakistani troops opened fire and shelled mortars along the de facto border with Rajouri district in India’s Jammu and Kashmir, Indian officials say.

Three suspected activists of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested in Barpeta district of Assam, police say.

India’s parliament passed yesterday a law against the Muslim practice of “instant divorce”, making it a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in prison.

Two years after West Bengal earned the distinction of being the first Indian state to get Geographical Indication (GI) tag for “rosogolla,” a widely popular sweetmeat, neighbouring state Odisha has also got the same now.

India’s tiger population has gone up from 2,226 in the year 2014 to 2,967 in 2018, according to an official tiger census report released in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country has become "one of the biggest and safest habitats" for big cats.

Seventeen Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested from an Indian village in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district for entering and staying in India without valid documents, a senior police official says.

The Indian Supreme Court’s decision on July 23 to extend by one month (from July 31 to August 31) the deadline for publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was quite expected.

India has deployed about 10,000 security forces personnel to the Kashmir valley in order to step up counter-insurgency operations and maintain law and order situation there, officials say.

All the 700 people on board an express train, which was stranded on flooded tracks in an open field in Badlapur, about 60 kilometres from Mumbai, are rescued.

India’s army chief yesterday warned Pakistan that it would get a “bloodied nose” if there was a repeat of a bloody battle which took place 20 years ago.

The Lok Sabha passes a bill to criminalise the practice of instant triple talaq among Muslims with the Indian government asserting that the law is needed as hundreds of cases of instant divorce have come to the fore despite the Supreme Court striking down the practice.

India celebrates the 20th anniversary of victory in the Kargil War against Pakistan.

A delegation of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress lawmakers met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament yesterday and submitted a memorandum urging him to take steps to change the state's name to “Bangla”.

The 14-month-old coalition government of the Congress and Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka lost the trust vote on the floor of the state legislature yesterday, capping nearly three weeks of political turmoil triggered by the resignation of 16 ruling alliance lawmakers.

India’s most ambitious unmanned mission to the moon is successfully launched six days after the previous lift-off had to be halted due to a technical snag.

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit passes away at a private hospital in New Delhi aged 81.