Much-awaited South Asian satellite, proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the benefit of countries of the region, will be launched in March next year, according to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).chairman.

Around 1,800 primary schools in New Delhi have been ordered to be closed as the Indian capital struggles to cope with the worst pollution in recent years.

Residents of New Delhi wake up to a blanket of smog as air quality deteriorates sharply overnight in India's capital, triggering warnings that even healthy people are at risk of respiratory problems.

The Indian army said it had destroyed four Pakistani military posts on Saturday along its contested border, the latest escalation

Pakistan yesterday accused India of killing three civilians and wounding several others in cross-border fire, as tensions soar in

An historic mosque in India yesterday agreed to scrap a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle

Indian police yesterday killed at least 21 rebels in a shootout in eastern India, a local officer said, the deadliest such incident this

Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association, a group of Indian cinemas, yesterday said they would not screen any films featuring Pakistani

Authorities in Indian Kashmir have banned a local newspaper, Kashmir Reader, they said was inciting violence in the region.

With the BCCI threatening to call off the ongoing series between India and New Zealand, the Justice R M Lodha led panel today clarifies that they didn't direct the banks to freeze the accounts of the Board.

Indian author Arundhati Roy announces that her second novel will be published in 2017 -- 20 years after she won the Booker Prize for her debut one.

Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency says.

In backdrops of “surgical strikes” on terror launch pads across the de facto border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Indian authorities issue an alert for stepping up vigil at different important places across the country.

India's announcement that it will not attend the 19th Saarc summit in Pakistan featured a carefully formulated

Stepping up its diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, India yesterday summoned Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit and

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday pledged to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a

After winning two consecutive assembly polls in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee on Friday added yet another feather to her cap with her

As Olympic under-achievers India head home from Rio having failed to win a gold medal, its gate-crashing, selfie-taking officials have been accused of failing to help its athletes taste success.

Around a giant screen showing the Olympics in a central New Delhi park, young Indians chat, take selfies or snooze in the late afternoon heat, glancing only occasionally at the heroic sporting feats on display.