India’s government yesterday said it has banned 22 YouTube channels, including four of Pakistani origin, for disinformation on subjects concerning national security and public order, the latest such federal crackdown in the country.

India’s Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday stressed on “unity at all levels” and resilience as she spoke at a weekly meeting of party MPs about what she called the party’s “shocking and painful” election defeats.

India’s government yesterday said it has banned 22 YouTube channels, including four of Pakistani origin, for disinformation on subjects concerning national security and public order, the latest such federal crackdown in the country.

India has ordered the blocking of 22 YouTube-based news channels, of which 18 are Indian and four from Pakistan, for allegedly spreading fake news to mislead viewers.

Career diplomat and Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been named as India’s new foreign secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla who is retiring at the end of this month.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and inaugurated the Himalayan nation’s only railway link with its southern neighbour yesterday in a summit meant to deepen relations.

India has hit back at those criticising the country’s procurement of cheaper Russian crude to meet energy requirement amid market volatility.

A special court in India has sentenced two Bangladeshi brothers to four years of imprisonment for illegally staying in the neighbouring country using forged documents.

Forty girl students from Udupi district of the southern Indian state of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside classrooms.

Wearing of hijab would not be allowed during the 10th standard examination of the Karnataka State Board commencing tomorrow, the southern Indian state’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh said today.

A Bangladeshi national was found dead inside the room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Thursday, a media report said today quoting police.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi tonight on a previously unannounced visit, the first to India by a senior leader from Beijing since the armies of the two countries were involved in a clash in eastern Ladakh in May, 2020.

India today reacted sharply to references made to it in statements and resolutions adopted in the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council, in Pakistan.

India’s Supreme Court today declined a request for an early hearing on the petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court’s ruling that upheld a ban on wearing of hijabs inside educational institutions.

Oil prices rose on Wednesday amid volatile trading on increasing concerns of global supply tightness from sanctions imposed on Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, and on signs that exports from Kazakhstan may be disrupted.

As many as 1,630 Bangladeshi nationals are among the 3,467 foreign undertrial prisoners lodged in different Indian jails, the Rajya Sabha was told today.

India has decided to revoke all Covid-19 restrictions from March 31, after long two years.

At least 11 workers were burnt to death in their sleep as a fire broke out at a warehouse in southern Indian city of Hyderabad in the wee hours of today, police said.

In a suspected case of an intra-party feud, miscreants set on fire about a dozen houses at a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district leaving at least seven people dead, police and fire brigade officials said yesterday.

At least ten people have been “burnt alive” in their houses which were set on fire in a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.