India and China yesterday announced they have agreed to resume direct air services after about five years, indicating a thaw in relations between the two neighbours after a military clash on their unresolved border across the Himalayas in 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump spoke in a phone call yesterday, Modi said in a post on X, the first conversation between the two leaders since Trump’s inauguration last week.

India and China have agreed to resume direct air services between the two countries, New Delhi said in a statement yesterday after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited Beijing and held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of “illegal’ immigrants if his party wins looming elections, in a forceful appeal to his party’s Hindu constituency.

An Indian state announced yesterday it had begun implementing a common civil code to replace religious laws, stoking fear among minority Muslims of a looming nationwide rollout by the Hindu-nationalist ruling party.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto looked on as guest of honour at India’s annual military and cultural parade in New Delhi held to mark the country’s 76th Republic Day yesterday.

At least eight people were killed and seven injured in a blast at an ordnance factory in the western Indian state of Maharashtra yesterday, a senior federal minister said.

Says father of Shariful Islam who has been arrested in Mumbai

Twelve people were killed yesterday after rumours of a fire on their train caused them to jump off and were crushed to death by another incoming train, officials said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an appeal before the Calcutta High Court today, seeking the death penalty for Sanjay Roy, a former civic volunteer of Kolkata Police

At least 12 passengers were killed this evening when they rushed out of their train compartment in panic following reports of fire only to be run over by another train on the adjacent tracks in Maharashtra state's Jalgaon district

Indian security forces shot dead at least 14 Maoist rebels, including a top commander, yesterday in what the interior minister said was one of the heaviest bouts of recent fighting.

Unhappy with the verdict, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said death penalty would have been ensured if the case been handled by the Kolkata Police

DG of Odisha Police Y B Khurania said the operation by the security forces was launched on specific intelligence input

An Indian court on Saturday found a 33-year-old man guilty for the rape and murder of a doctor, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and hospital strikes last year.

The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on January 20

India yesterday reiterated that fencing is one of the necessary measures to ensure a crime-free border with Bangladesh.

Indian security forces shot dead at least 12 Maoist rebels in central India, police said, as New Delhi steps up efforts to quell the long-running insurgency.

At least 12 suspected Maoists were killed in a gun-battle with security forces in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district yesterday, a senior police official said

India docked two satellites in space yesterday, a key milestone for the country’s dreams of a space station and manned Moon mission, the space agency said.