India’s main opposition Congress party said yesterday its bank accounts with 2.1 billion rupees ($25.3 million) in deposits had been frozen by the income tax department in connection with a dispute, months before national elections.

A French journalist said yesterday she was leaving India, where she had worked for more than two decades, after authorities threatened her expulsion for what they termed “malicious and critical” reporting.

At least two people were killed and scores injured in India's northeastern Manipur state after security forces opened fire at a mob in Churachandpur district late on Thursday, a police official said, as sporadic violence continued in the region

At least 11 people died and four others were injured when a building collapsed during a massive fire that broke out at a paint factory in the northern part of India's capital New Delhi on Thursday, a fire department official said

India’s Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a seven-year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to donate money to political parties anonymously and without any limits, calling it “unconstitutional”. 

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday announced that she will not run in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in India due to health and age issues, capping a nearly two-decade career in electoral politics.

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi today announced that she will not run in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections due to health and age issues, capping a nearly two-decade career in electoral politics

India's Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped a seven year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to donate money to political parties anonymously and without any limits

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday filed her nomination for India’s Rajya Sabha (RS) polls with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by her side.

Indian riot police fired tear gas yesterday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded roadblocks and march on the capital to demand guaranteed crop prices. 

Indian riot police fired tear gas Wednesday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded barricades and march on the capital to demand higher crop prices

Police in India yesterday fired tear gas at hundreds of farmers and their supporters during a protest march towards New Delhi to pressure the government to honour a promise it made in 2021 to pay more for crops.

An Indian news magazine said yesterday that the government had ordered it to delete an online report that implicated soldiers in torture and killing of civilians in Kashmir.

Delhi police today placed barricades and stopped vehicular movement at the Singhu and Tikri borders to foil farmers' possible march to the city

The Indian police today fired tear gas shells and also used drones to drop the shells to disperse protesting farmers who attempted to march towards Delhi to press their demand for a law on guaranteeing minimum support price for crops

Hundreds of farmers, many of them riding tractor-trolleys, from the northern Indian state of Punjab today began "Delhi Chalo" road march to press for their demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support price for crops, after a meeting with two federal ministers was inconclusive

India’s foreign ministry said yesterday that Qatar had freed eight ex-navy personnel it had previously arrested and sentenced to death, reportedly for spying for Israel.

The first cargo vessels carrying stones will be flagged off by India's Minister of State for Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Shantanu Thakur from Maia inland customs port tomorrow morning

Nearly 97 crore Indians will be eligible to vote in this year's Lok Sabha elections due in a few months, the country's Election Commission said today

Former Indian Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao, widely viewed as the architect of the country's economic reforms and liberalisation in the 1990s, and Chaudhary Charan Singh, a farmer leader, will be honoured with the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today