The annual US report on human rights practices released on Monday listed "significant human rights issues" and abuses in India, including reported targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists, the US State Department said

Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan yesterday said although the mutation of the disputed 13 decimal plot has been done in economist Amartya Sen’s name,

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida yesterday announced a new plan to promote an open and free Indo-Pacific, promising billions of dollars in investment to help economies across the region in everything from industry to disaster prevention.

Indian authorities blocked internet access for about 27 million people in the state of Punjab for a third straight day yesterday – one of the country’s most extensive blackouts in recent years – as police search for a Sikh separatist on the run.

Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan today said although the mutation of the disputed 13-decimal plot has been done in economist Amartya Sen's name, its ownership remains vested with the university

Indian authorities have blocked internet access for about 27 million people in the state of Punjab for a third straight day today – one of the country’s most extensive blackouts in recent years – as police search for a Sikh separatist on the run..The Punjab government initially announced a

India summoned the senior-most UK diplomat in New Delhi late yesterday evening to convey its strong protest against a group of people pulling down India's national flag at the Indian high commission in London while shouting Sikh separatist slogans

When a mob led by a radical 30-year-old Sikh preacher openly espousing to separatist cause stormed a police station in Amritsar district of India's Punjab bordering Pakistan on February 24, the incident and the man behind it revived memories of the dark days of militancy that had ravaged the state for years in 1980s

Adani Group has suspended work on a 349 billion rupee ($4.2 billion) petrochemical project at Mundra in India’s western Gujarat state as it focuses on consolidating operations and addressing investor concerns after the Hindenburg shortseller report, according to the Press Trust of India.

Delhi Police today met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his residence in central Delhi and served a fresh notice to him over his "women are still being sexually assaulted" remark

Indian police today reached the residence of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi in connection with a notice issued to him last week over his remark that “women are still being sexually assaulted”

The situation between India and China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh is fragile and dangerous, with military forces deployed very close to each other in some parts, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said yesterday.

The situation between India and China in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh is fragile and dangerous, with military forces deployed very close to each other in some parts, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said today..At least 24 soldiers were killed when the two sides clashed in th

A West Bengal state minister yesterday said two additional canals will be dug to divert water from the Teesta and irrigate farms in the northern parts of the state.

Three key opposition parties in India have agreed to keep both the Congress and the BJP at an arm’s length, indicating they will follow a policy of treating the two parties equally.

India's West Bengal government has indicated it will go ahead with the work of digging two canals to channel water from the Teesta river for irrigation in northern parts of the state.

India yesterday approved purchases of missiles, helicopters, artillery guns and electronic warfare systems worth $8.5 billion as it sought to add more teeth to its military.

Two pilots died when an Indian Army Cheetah helicopter crashed near the Mandala hills area in West Kameng district of the country’s Arunachal Pradesh today.

Of the 87 "declared foreigners", 64 are from Myanmar, 22 from Bangladesh, and one from Senegal, another senior official said

Two Namibian cheetahs relocated to India last year were released into the wild, more than seven decades after the world’s fastest land animal was declared extinct in the South Asian country.