A high percentage of women in 18 Indian states, including Kerala with cent percent literacy, consider domestic violence against women to be justified, according to the latest National Family Health Survey 2019-21 (NFHS-5).

Schools and colleges in India’s capital will reopen on Monday after closing for nearly 15 days due to a spike in air pollution, the government said, even though air quality remains very poor in New Delhi and its neighbouring cities.

Party for the family, by the family... do I need to say more? If a party is run by one family for many generations, then, it isn’t good for a healthy democracy... look at the political parties from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.”

India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world’s second-most populous nation.

The Indian police today arrested nine members including the kingpin of a gang for their alleged involvement in trafficking women from Bangladesh and forcing them into prostitution in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh state, a senior police official said.

Speakers at a seminar-webinar titled, "India-Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Friendship," today called for further enhancement of relations between the two countries which should work for maintaining peace and stability in the region.

The Indian Cabinet today approved a bill to repeal the three contentious farm sector reform laws which triggered major protests by thousands of farmers.

Flushed with victory after Prime Minister Narendra Modi caved into demands for agricultural reform laws to be repealed, Indian farmers held a mass rally yesterday to demand minimum support prices be extended to all produce, not just rice and wheat.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tonight expressed hope that India’s USD 500 million line of credit to Bangladesh for defence equipment will spur joint activities not only in acquisition of assets but also in co-development and co-production of defence material.

Farmers at the Delhi borders have said that say their protests will continue till the formal cancellation of the three contentious farm laws, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday.

An Indian man declared dead after a road accident shocked his relatives when they found him still breathing despite a night in the freezer of a hospital morgue.

India’s Uttar Pradesh state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two Rohingyas from Kolkata for allegedly making fake documents for Rohingya people and Bangladeshis illegally brought to India for trafficking.

Apparently unimpressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the decision to withdraw three contentious farm laws, India’s agitating farmers today vowed to continue their protests till formal scrapping of the legislations.

At least 30 people are dead or missing after flash floods hit southern India, reports yesterday, with three buses washed away in one incident.

Death toll in floods caused by heavy rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh increased to at least 13 today.

In a surprise announcement yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year, sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory.

Electoral politics in a democracy like India is all about taking the right decision at the right time and popular perception.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have caved in to farmers' demands that he scraps laws they say threaten their livelihoods.

The Sikh community yesterday opened the doors to five gurudwaras to Muslims to offer their Friday (Juma) namaz in Gurugram (formerly Gurgaon) district, near New Delhi.

Bowing to year-long sustained street agitation by farmers, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that his government has decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws passed by parliament last year and apologised to the country.