20 hurt as masked men attack Jawaharlal Nehru University students, teachers

Violence rocks prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in New Delhi of India as masked men armed with sticks attack students and teachers leaving 20 people injured and damaged property, prompting the administration to call in the police.
6 January 2020, 04:45 AM

Nat’l population register to be carried out in Bihar May 15-28

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi said updating of the National Population Register (NPR) will be carried out in the state from May 15 to May 28 this year.
5 January 2020, 07:01 AM

Next move on deportation of Rohingyas in Jammu and Kashmir: Indian minister Jitendra Singh

A key Indian minister has said the government's next move would be relating the deportation of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and Kashmir as they would not be able to secure citizenship under the amended Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
4 January 2020, 07:50 AM

Won’t budge an inch on CAA: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister of India Amit Shah says the government will not budge an inch on its decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) despite the opposition parties’ criticism of the law..
3 January 2020, 14:21 PM

2 Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir gunfight

Two Indian soldiers are killed in a gunfight with suspected militants along the border that divides the disputed territory of Kashmir between archrivals India and Pakistan, officials says.
1 January 2020, 09:03 AM

Kerala assembly passes resolution demanding withdrawal of Citizenship Amendment Act

The Kerala legislative Assembly has passed a resolution demanding scrapping of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which seeks to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
31 December 2019, 08:42 AM

India stares at the New Year with high politics over CAA/NRC

It has been more than a fortnight that the pan-India protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are going on.
29 December 2019, 18:00 PM

‘India’s CAA, NRC may affect Bangladesh’

Voicing grave concern over the impact of India’s National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act, eminent jurist Shahdeen Malik says Bangladesh should be prepared to cope up with the stresses.
29 December 2019, 13:55 PM

‘Now we have woken up’

Mumbai-based copywriter Sarah Syed says she was long alarmed by the Hindu nationalist direction of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi but felt powerless to stop it -- until now. Like many others taking part in the current wave of protests, the final straw was Modi’s new citizenship law and then the images of students being tear-gassed when they demonstrated against it.
28 December 2019, 18:00 PM

Delhi experiences coldest day with temperature dropping to 2.4 degrees

The Indian capital, Delhi, experienced its coldest day of this winter with minimum temperature plummeting to 2.4 degrees celsius in the morning, Met officials said.
28 December 2019, 06:13 AM

Modi joins crowd to watch decade's last solar eclipse

Thousands of Indians watch the last solar eclipse of the decade in Kerala and Tamil Nadu,
26 December 2019, 06:13 AM

Modi unveils plan to tackle water shortages in India's heartland states

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches a 60-billion-rupee ($842 million) plan to tackle water shortages in the country’s seven heartland states where agriculture is a mainstay.
25 December 2019, 10:49 AM

Biryani, bankers and burqas: Inside a sit-in protest on an Indian highway

In a working-class corner of south Delhi, a nearly 1-kilometre (half mile) stretch of a wide, six-lane highway connecting India's capital city with a burgeoning suburb is blockaded.
25 December 2019, 06:19 AM

Jharkhand message may resonate across India

Some years ago, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had boasted of a “Congress-mukt” Bharat. It was the result of the party’s victory in a series of assembly elections across India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power for the first time more than five years ago.
24 December 2019, 18:00 PM

6-day BGB-BSF DG level conference from Dec 25

Killing or injuring and firing on innocent Bangladeshi citizens on the border with India will dominate the six-day director general level conference between BGB and BSF scheduled to begin at New Delhi on December 25.
24 December 2019, 12:14 PM

BJP’s publicity blitz depicts Muslims in animated video

India's ruling party launches a video with animated Muslim characters on social media in a publicity blitz aiming to bust "myths" around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests.
24 December 2019, 08:38 AM

Shringla appointed new foreign secretary of India

Harsh Vardhan Shringla, the former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, is appointed as the new foreign secretary of India for a two-year fixed term.
24 December 2019, 04:40 AM

India bids to bust ‘myths’

India’s ruling party yesterday launched a video with animated Muslim characters on social media in a publicity blitz to try to bust “myths” around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests.
23 December 2019, 18:00 PM

Congress to stage sit-in tomorrow protesting ACC, NRC

Congress, the main opposition party in India will stage a sit-in at Rajghat, the memorial of the country’s Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, tomorrow protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act and proposed National Register of Citizens.
22 December 2019, 14:31 PM

Modi says citizenship law not anti-Muslim as protests continue across India

Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lead a rally for his Hindu nationalist party in the capital.
22 December 2019, 13:07 PM