At least five people, including two women, are killed as the very severe cyclone 'Bulbul' hit West Bengal’s southern coastal belt bordering Bangladesh and Odisha, triggering heavy rain coupled with strong winds that toppled trees, power and communication lines and hitting normal life.

Cyclone Bulbul hits India and southern Bangladesh, leaving two dead as authorities in the countries ordered more than two million people to get out of the path of the storm.

Flight operations at Kolkata airport will be stopped from 6:00pm today till 6:00am tomorrow, or for 12 hours, over safety concerns due to Cyclone Bulbul, Home Ministry officials have said.

In a landmark judgment on a century-old religious row, the Indian Supreme Court clears the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed land in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh by allotting the plot to a Hindu outfit.

Hundreds of Indian Sikhs are set to make a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan, travelling visa-free to one of their religion's holiest sites under a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.

India has deployed thousands of additional security forces and roped in about 16,000 “digital volunteers” to sanitise social media of inflammatory posts ahead of a crucial Supreme Court verdict on a disputed religious site.

Relatives of an Indian woman who married outside her caste and fled her home to escape punishment stoned her and her husband to death after the couple returned to their village to visit family, police said yesterday.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of India’s main opposition Congress, had been informed by messaging service WhatsApp that her phone was hacked during this year’s election campaign by malware from Israeli surveillance firm NSO.

At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir has ceased to be a state and became India’s newest federally-ruled territory which gives Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government direct control to run its affairs.

The free travel scheme for women in Delhi public buses begins with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia saying it will ensure their safety and increase their role in the national capital's economy.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to retain power in Maharashtra in alliance with Shiv Sena but the saffron party was locked in a close race with the Congress in Haryana where no party was in sight of clear majority as counting of votes for the legislatures in the two states neared the end.

Two Indian soldiers and a civilian have been killed when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire in Tanghar sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district today, the area’s police said according to our New Delhi correspondent.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen terms the recent exchange of fire between the border forces of Bangladesh and India an "accidental incident" saying the members of the Border Security Force (BSF) demonstrated their "hegemony" intruding into Bangladesh's territory.

Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan has not been in the best of his health recently. According to reports, the actor has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai from the past three days, giving rise to rumours that not all is well with him.

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences say.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been striving for a clean India campaign, today spent half an hour removing strewn plastic and garbage during an early morning stroll along the beach of the Bay of Bengal at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu.

The creator of “Meena Cartoon”, Ram Mohan, passes away at the age of 88.

Bangladeshi nationals who visit India on valid visas and fall ill during their stay in India are not required to convert their primary visas into medical ones for getting admitted to Indian hospitals from now on.

BNP demands immediate step down of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for signing “anti-state” agreements with India “ignoring the country’s national interest”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina receives 'Tagore Peace Award 2018' in New Delhi in recognition of her contribution to maintaining regional peace and prosperity.