Tax billionaires more

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose an additional tax on the country’s billionaires to generate funds for stretched public services like education and health.
12 July 2024

Kejriwal gets interim bail in graft case

India’s Supreme Court yesterday granted interim bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, but he will stay in jail due to his arrest in another case.
12 July 2024

India SC grants interim bail to Kejriwal

India's Supreme Court today granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal who was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam filed by the Enforcement Directorate
12 July 2024

India has no right to develop contested region: China

India has no right to carry out development in the area China calls South Tibet, China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday in response to a Reuters report on New Delhi’s plans to speed up hydropower projects in the border state.
10 July 2024

Kidney transplant racket involved Bangladeshi patients: Delhi police

The kidney transplant racket in Delhi, exposed by the arrest of seven persons, including three Bangladeshis and an Indian doctor, was part of a bigger inter-state network involving patients from Bangladesh in Rajasthan and Haryana, Delhi Police sources said
10 July 2024

18 dead, 19 hurt in Uttar Pradesh bus-milk tanker collision

Unnao District Magistrate Gaurang Rathi said, based on initial findings, the bus travelling from Motihari in Bihar to Delhi was speeding and rear-ended the milk tanker
10 July 2024

India races to build power plants: sources

India plans to spend $1 billion to expedite the construction of 12 hydropower stations in the northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, two government sources said, a move that could raise tensions with China that lays claims to the region.
9 July 2024

India floods swamp nat’l park

Devastating floods in India’s northeast that have killed scores of people also swamped a national park drowning six threatened rhinos and other wildlife, government officials said yesterday.
9 July 2024

PM to leave Beijing for Dhaka tomorrow night

She was initially scheduled to leave Beijing on Thursday morning
9 July 2024

Trans-boundary kidney transplant racket mastermind is Bangladeshi: Delhi police

The “mastermind” behind the kidney transplant racket busted in Delhi is a Bangladeshi national and both donors and receivers in the case were from Bangladesh, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police’s Crime Branch Amit Goel said today
9 July 2024

Six officials suspended over deadly stampede in India’s Uttar Pradesh

The Uttar Pradesh government today suspended six officials for alleged negligence in connection with the stampede that killed 121 people at a religious congregation in Hathras last week
9 July 2024

Four Indian soldiers killed in clashes in J&K

Four Indian soldiers were killed and at least six others were wounded in gun battles with militants in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state, a senior police officer said yesterday.
8 July 2024

India’s PM Modi arrives in Russia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia yesterday, as the Indian leader treaded a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western ties.
8 July 2024

Modi lands in Russia for first visit since Ukraine offensive

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on Monday, as the Indian leader treaded a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western security ties
8 July 2024

Eight killed in gun battles in India’s Jammu & Kashmir

Two soldiers and six suspected militants were killed in two separate gun battles in Indian’s Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), police said yesterday.
7 July 2024

Uttar Pradesh stampede: Main accused arrested in Delhi

The main accused in the deadly stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras that killed 121 people was arrested from Delhi's Najafgarh locality by a Special Operations Group of the state police, a senior police official said today
6 July 2024

8 arrested after gruesome murder of Indian politician

Eight people were arrested in India on Saturday for the murder of a politician who championed the rights of lower-caste Indians, police said
6 July 2024

Rahul Gandhi meets families of Uttar Pradesh stampede victims

India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi today met family members of the 121 people killed in a stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras
5 July 2024

India, China FMs agree to work on border issues

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar yesterday met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Kazakhstan where the two agreed to step up talks to resolve issues along their border, New Delhi said in a statement.
4 July 2024

Modi to visit Russia for talks with Putin on July 8-9

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8 and 9, the Kremlin said yesterday, in his first trip to the country since Moscow launched its military offensive in Ukraine.
4 July 2024