The Indian police today fired tear gas shells and also used drones to drop the shells to disperse protesting farmers who attempted to march towards Delhi to press their demand for a law on guaranteeing minimum support price for crops

Hundreds of farmers, many of them riding tractor-trolleys, from the northern Indian state of Punjab today began "Delhi Chalo" road march to press for their demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support price for crops, after a meeting with two federal ministers was inconclusive

India’s foreign ministry said yesterday that Qatar had freed eight ex-navy personnel it had previously arrested and sentenced to death, reportedly for spying for Israel.

The first cargo vessels carrying stones will be flagged off by India's Minister of State for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Shantanu Thakur from Maia inland customs port tomorrow morning

Nearly 97 crore Indians will be eligible to vote in this year's Lok Sabha elections due in a few months, the country's Election Commission said today

Former Indian Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao, widely viewed as the architect of the country's economic reforms and liberalisation in the 1990s, and Chaudhary Charan Singh, a farmer leader, will be honoured with the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today

India’s interior minister said yesterday that he had “recommended the immediate suspension” of a free movement border agreement with Myanmar, from where thousands have fled since fighting between the junta and its opponents surged last year.

India today announced it has decided to cancel a five-year-old facility allowing free movement of nationals of India and Myanmar along the common border

Lawmakers in a small Indian state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday approved landmark legislation to unify personal laws across religions, a moved opposed by many minority Muslims.

India has issued an advisory asking its nationals not to travel to Myanmar’s restive Rakhine province amid fierce fighting between rebels and the military.

India’s ruling party yesterday introduced contentious legislation to create a common civil code in a northern state, including for marriage, reigniting a polarising debate weeks before national elections.

At least 11 people died and 80 were injured yesterday in a giant explosion at a firework factory in India that saw balls of flames soar into the sky, officials said.

A bill which proposes uniform marriage, divorce, land, property and inheritance laws for all citizens irrespective of their religion was today tabled in the legislative assembly of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand

India’s Supreme Court yesterday called the defacing of ballot papers by a returning officer in the recently concluded mayoral polls in Chandigarh a mockery of democracy.

India will not provide information to Canadian investigators over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader until Canada shares evidence, India’s High Commissioner to Canada told the Globe & Mail newspaper in an interview published yesterday.

India's Supreme Court today called the defacing of ballot papers by a returning officer in the recently concluded mayoral polls in Chandigarh a mockery of democracy

The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested an employee of the Indian embassy in Moscow for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. He was arrested in Meerut.

India will withdraw its troops in the Maldives by May, the Maldivian Foreign Ministry said yesterday, as the two countries seek agreement on a pullout that has strained ties.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who began a two-day sit-in demonstration in Kolkata's Maidan area demanding the state's "dues" from the federal government for funding various social welfare schemes, spent the night at the site amid cold and fog

India’s former deputy prime minister and BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani will be conferred “Bharat Ratna,” the country’s highest civilian honour