Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government yesterday raised import tariffs on nearly 75 items including gold and automobile parts in its federal budget and increased taxes on the rich to hold down the fiscal deficit as it tries to revive growth.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appears before a court in Mumbai in connection with a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS worker and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

A day after Rahul Gandhi gave finality to his decision to resign as Congress President owning responsibility for the party's drubbing in parliamentary poll, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today commended her brother saying "Few have the courage that you do".

Eight people were killed and at least 15 were missing yesterday after the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade breached a dam in the

Congress MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi says that he is no longer the President of the party. He also said that the party’s working committee should meet immediately and decide on who would be the next president of the Congress.

At least six people have been killed and 19 others went missing after a dam in India's Maharashtra's coastal Konkan region breached following incessant rain leading to flood-like situation in downstream villages, officials said.

At least 22 people are killed, 16 of them in India’s financial capital Mumbai, and over 80 injured in separate incidents of wall collapse in Maharashtra today following heavy rains.

At least 35 people were killed and 17 others injured as a minibus fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, police officials say.

At least 17 people have been killed after a boundary wall of a residential apartment complex collapsed and came crashing down on a cluster of huts adjacent to it in western Indian city of Pune.

More than 450,000 people have signed two petitions demanding that the Indian government declare a climate emergency as severe heatwaves and crippling water shortages grip the country.

It seems that Modi government’s success in the current term will depend to a large extent on managing domestic politics more than anything else, including foreign policy. I intend to highlight two key domestic concerns and their political management: negative social

India’s monsoon rains were below average for the fourth straight week, with rainfall scanty over central and western parts of the country in the week ended on Wednesday, raising concerns about major crop production and the impact on the nation’s economy.

India yesterday told the US that it will go by its national interest while dealing with other countries, including with sanctions-hit Russia from whom New Delhi is procuring S-400 missile defence systems.

An additional 1,02,462 persons have been excluded from the draft final National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list of Indian nationals, in Assam, said a statement released today by the state NRC Coordinator.

An Indian suspect in the October 2014 Burdwan blast incident in West Bengal, who had been absconding for more than four years, was arrested by India’s counter-terror body National Investigation Agency in Bengaluru yesterday, reports our New Delhi correspondent

Kolkata police claim to have arrested four people including three Bangladeshis for their alleged link with militancy.

The Indian cabinet has approved the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill that provides for steeper penalties for violating traffic rules including dangerous and drunk driving, driving without license and helmet, over-speeding and overloading.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays homage to all "those greats" who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 and said democracy had prevailed over authoritarianism.

​India rejects a US report on religious freedom, saying it sees no locus standi for a foreign government to pronounce on the state of its citizens' constitutionally protected rights.

Shortly before the first session of the newly-elected 17th Lok Sabha began on the morning of June 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the customary media appearance and underlined that a pro-active opposition is an indispensable component of a vibrant