The Trinamool Congress will contest the elections for West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats on its own steam, and only consider a pan-India alliance with the Congress after results are declared, a furious Mamata Banerjee declared yesterday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today sustained injury to her forehead when the car she was travelling in suddenly halted to avoid a collision with another vehicle in Bardhaman district of the state, a senior official said

A French journalist said yesterday she was facing expulsion from India after two decades for what authorities have termed “malicious and critical” reportage, days before a state visit by President Emmanuel Macron.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday led the consecration of a grand temple to the Hindu god Lord Ram on a site believed to be Ram’s birthplace, in a celebratory event for the Hindu majority of the world’s most populous nation.

A Chinese research vessel is on its way to the Maldives, according to an Indian military official and an independent researcher, as new Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu deepens ties with Beijing, distancing from New Delhi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya amid religious fervour, signifying a triumph of his muscular Hindu nationalist politics ahead of the parliamentary elections due in a few months.

India plans to erect a fence along its vast and porous frontier with Myanmar and will scrap a free movement border zone agreement, Indian media reported yesterday.

A spacecraft of Nasa, orbiting the moon, sent laser beams which successfully bounced off a tiny mirror-based instrument on board the lander that is now on the lunar following India’s landmark moon mission last year.

Fresh ethnic violence has killed five civilians in two districts of the north eastern Indian state of Manipur, senior police officials said.

Fresh ethnic violence has killed five civilians in two districts of the north eastern Indian state of Manipur, senior police officials said

India and Maldives recently held a core group meeting on January 14 to address the issue of ensuring “continued operation” of Indian aviation platforms providing humanitarian and medical services, India’s ministry of external affairs said yesterday.

The Indian Navy said yesterday it had rescued the crew of a US-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi movement as tensions in the region’s sea lanes disrupted global trade.

A boat ride during picnic turned tragic when at least 16 people, including 14 school children and two teachers, died as the vessel carrying them capsized in a lake in western Indian state of Gujarat's Vadodara district this evening.

In the backdrop of Iran targeting the “terror bases” in Pakistan, India has said it understands the “actions that countries take in their self-defence” and maintained that it has an “uncompromising” position of “zero tolerance” towards terrorism

Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed at least two times in 2022 along their Himalayan frontier where they have been involved in a bitter standoff since 2020, according to new details that have emerged from the Indian Army’s gallantry award citations.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday halted plans for a survey of a centuries-old mosque to determine if it contained Hindu relics and symbols, just days before another key temple, built on a razed mosque, is set to be inaugurated. 

Flight and train services were disrupted in India’s capital New Delhi for the second day running yesterday as dense fog and cold enveloped large swathes of the northern part of the country.

India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday began a new cross-country march from a troubled northeastern state, aiming to generate political momentum to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections due by May.

India’s foreign minister is scheduled to visit Iran today for a two-day trip, following Western air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Tehran-backed group’s attacks on

India said yesterday it had lodged a protest over a senior British diplomat’s visit to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, saying the trip this week had infringed on India’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.