A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suggested in the state legislature that India should seek the deployment of UN peacekeeping force in Bangladesh “to ensure safety of the minorities”, her party colleague Sudip Bandopadhyay echoed the same call in parliament yesterday.

"It is only when a country completely collapses, the peacekeepers are sent and the govt of the country has to request them"

The decision, announced in a press release of the association issued yesterday, was made during an emergency meeting

Imran Khan was booked in a murder case over the death of paramilitary personnel who were run over by a speeding vehicle

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday urged the Indian government to seek the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces in Bangladesh to help normalise the situation and ensure the safety of minorities in that country.

Just after midnight as poisonous plumes of smoke wafted through the Indian city of Bhopal four decades ago, Gas Devi was born, gasping for every breath

India's emerging security concerns along the border with Bangladesh and Myanmar were discussed at a two-day conference of the country's top police officials addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Odisha

"Despite the clear provisions of the Places of Worship Act, the courts too seem to respond to such demands with undue alacrity and haste," they said.

Cyclone Fengal made landfall late Saturday with sustained winds of 70-80 kilometres an hour (43-50 miles per hour).

Sectarian feuding in northwest Pakistan killed 13 more people, a local government official said yesterday, as warring Sunnis and Shias defied repeated ceasefire orders in recent conflict claiming 124 lives.

More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.

A man allegedly hurled liquid at former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal during his "padyatra" in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar locality today, police said

India's Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed concern over the situation in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the arrest of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, according to ANI

More than 13,000 people had been forced to flee their homes, with temporary shelters set up in schools and temples

Taiwan said yesterday it detected 41 Chinese military aircraft and ships around the island ahead of a Hawaii stopover by President Lai Ching-te, part of a Pacific tour that has sparked fury in Beijing.

India’s foreign ministry said yesterday that bribery allegations against billionaire Gautam Adani is a legal issue between private firms and the US Department of Justice and that New Delhi has not received any request on this case from Washington.

A Beijing court yesterday sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to seven years in prison for espionage, his family said in a statement, calling the verdict a grave injustice.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday barred his cabinet members from going on leave, after the displacement this week of more than 90,000 people in a growing flood disaster that officials fear could be country’s worst in a decade.

Nepal’s premier will visit China next month, the foreign ministry said yesterday, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic’s leaders of making India their first official destination.

She is running for the post of mayor of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections.