Indian police have arrested nine Bangladeshis in West Bengal and Meghalaya on charges of entering India illegally

Imposing a fine of Rs five lakh on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Calcutta High Court judge Kaushik Chanda today recused himself from hearing her petition challenging the election of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari who defeated her in the assembly election in Nandigram.

India’s digital platform, which is powering the “world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive” in the country, will soon be made available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

Police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh today detained eight Bangladeshi nationals, who had allegedly entered India illegally, from a train.

India’s Supreme Court today ruled saying the federal government must pay compensation to the families of those who succumbed to Covid-19.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that restrictions imposed in the state to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease have been extended till July 15.

India has so far reported 3,129 deaths from mucormycosis (black fungus) infections, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

Two explosives-laden drones crashed into the Indian Air Force station in India’s Jammu region today, in what the Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh termed as a “terror attack”.

Kashmiri politicians will urge Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to restore Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy when they meet him on Thursday for the first talks since he took away the region’s special status two years ago, party officials said.

The Calcutta High Court today deferred a hearing on a petition filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to June 24 challenging her BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari's win in Nandigram constituency in the recent state assembly elections.

Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality.

UNESCO world heritage site Taj Mahal and several other historical monuments, museums and sites across India will be reopened to the public from Wednesday after a closure of nearly two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an order of the Archaeological Survey of India today.

At least 18 workers were killed and five others went missing after a major fire swept through a factory firm in Pune district of western Indian state of Maharashtra today, officials said, according to our New Delhi correspondent.

India's capital city is preparing to deal with a coronavirus infection peak of 37,000 cases a day in future, its chief minister said on Saturday as he also announced a partial easing of a lockdown.

India’s government on Saturday warned Twitter to immediately comply with the country’s new social media regulations, which critics say give the government more power to police online content.

India has amended rules barring its officers, who work or had worked in intelligence and security-related organisations, from publishing sensitive information by adding new clauses, including conditions that they cannot share any material on "domain of the organisation" and its personnel without clearance from the competent authority.

India's economy shrunk by 7.3 percent in the fiscal year that ended in March even though the growth rate picked up in the fourth quarter, just before the world's worst coronavirus outbreak hit the country.

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it was worried about the safety of its staff in India, days after police visited its office as part of a probe related to the social media firm’s tagging of some ruling party posts as manipulated.

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal today intensified into Cyclone Yaas and it is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm packed with a maximum windspeed of 180km per hour in the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department has said.

The low pressure over east central Bay of Bengal today gathered strength, turning into a deep depression that is very likely to become severe cyclonic storm Yaas by May 25 and cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar islands by the next evening, the Indian Met department said.