A pair of Toucans were seized by India’s BSF near West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh, officials said today.

A political row has erupted in Marxist-ruled southern state of Kerala over the decision of the state government to allow police to access phone call detail records (CDRs) of Covid-19 patients ostensibly for effective contact-tracing.

Ailing former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee is “deeply comatose” and his condition remained unchanged, the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi has said.

At least three people are killed as Indian police open fire on a mob that went on a rampage in Bengaluru, resenting a communally sensitive social media post allegedly put out by a kin of opposition Congress party lawmaker.

Daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality and they will have equal coparcenary (joint heirship) rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, India’s Supreme Court has ruled.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has reportedly been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, according to Indian media reports.

The condition of India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery for removal of a clot in his brain, has worsened.

The condition of India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, who tested positive for coronavirus and underwent a surgery last night to remove a clot in his brain, remains critical, the hospital where he is being treated said today.

High-speed internet services will be restored on a trial basis in limited areas of Jammu and Kashmir after August 15, the Indian government tells the Supreme Court.

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has been put on ventilator support after undergoing brain surgery at the Army Research and Referral hospital in New Delhi where he was admitted after testing positive for Covid-19.

India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee said today that he has tested positive for Covid-19.

The Indian federal government has sought approval of the West Bengal state government to allow the return of 2,680 Indians stranded in Bangladesh since the coronavirus lockdown in March.

At least seven people have been killed and 10 others injured when a fire broke out at a hotel, which was being used as a make-shift facility for Covid-19 patients in Vijaywada town of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said officials.

Bangladesh has expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives in the plane crash in Kozhikode, India, and conveyed its sympathies to the families of the deceased.

“I am really afraid. I don’t want to fly again,” says 28-year-old Muhammad Shafaf, who was returning home from Dubai on board the Air India Express flight IX 1344 which skidded off the runway amid heavy rains, hurtling down a sharp slope and breaking in two, leaving 18 people dead and scores injured, at Calicut International Airport in the southern Indian city of Kozhikode.

A massive search operation using man and machine, is underway to find 50 odd people reported missing after a landslide in Kerala’s Idukki district.

Investigators today began their probe into the crash of the Air India Express plane with 195 people on board to Kozhikode in Kerala as the plane’s Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder were recovered from the aircraft, Civil Aviation officials said.

The death toll in the Air India Express plane crash at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport rises to 18 with one more passenger succumbing to injuries.

A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and rescue workers were searching for more than 50 people thought to be trapped under soil and debris, officials say.

At least 17 people, including the pilot and co-pilot, have been killed and 112 injured after an Air India Express Boeing 737 aircraft with 195 people on board from Dubai skidded off the runway while landing amidst heavy downpour at the Kozhikode airport in the southern state of Kerala, police say.