West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said no discussion on sharing the Teesta and Ganges waters should be held with Bangladesh without the involvement of the West Bengal government.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday appealed to an emboldened opposition for “consensus”, as parliament opened following an election setback that forced him into a coalition government for the first time in a decade.

Indian lawmakers begin taking their oaths Monday as parliament opens after an election setback forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a coalition government for the first time in a decade

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that the Bangladeshi-origin minority community members “overwhelmingly” voted for the Congress in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, without considering the “developmental work done for them by the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in the state.”

The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has risen to 53, media reported yesterday, as more victims in hospital succumbed to the poisonous brew.

A lawmaker of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress today said the Centre did not consult the state government before taking the decision to start negotiations with Bangladesh for the renewal of the 1996 Ganga water-sharing treaty

The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has risen to 53, media reported Sunday, as more victims in hospital succumbed to the poisonous brew

West Bengal irrigation department has opted to dredge the Teesta in the upstream to reduce flood risks in downstream areas

The Delhi High Court today granted an interim stay on a trial court's order that gave bail to leading opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam

The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu rose to 47 and the condition of at least 30 people is stated to be critical, the state government said today

China is pressing India to restart direct passenger flights after a four-year halt, but New Delhi is resisting as a border dispute continues to weigh on ties between the world’s two most populous countries, officials said.

A Delhi court today granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case in the alleged liquor excise policy scam

The unrelenting heatwave sweeping vast swathes of India has claimed at least 110 lives and left over 40,000 people afflicted by suspected heatstroke between March 1 and June 18 this year, Indian Health Ministry officials said today

Police suspect it was used to dispose of the body of the slain MP

District Collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath and Police Superintendent Samay Singh Meena, along with nine other police officials suspended

India recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases this summer as a prolonged heatwave killed more than 100 people across the country, while parts of its northeast grappled with floods from heavy rain, authorities said

India was battling extreme weather yesterday that caused severe heatwaves, landslides and floods, killing at least 11 people this week, among them a woman and her three daughters buried alive in a northeastern state, officials and media said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her parliamentary election debut from Wayanad constituency in Kerala, the party announced today

A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a letter to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, conveying his warmest greetings on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha