Eleven years after its maiden successful unmanned mission to the moon which found traces of water there, India is all set for the launch of the second one in the wee hours tomorrow (July 15).

The Indian cabinet has cleared amendments to an existing gender-neutral law against sexual abuse of children introducing the provision of death penalty in cases of aggravated sexual offences and more stringent penal provisions aimed at clamping down on child pornography.

The Indian cabinet has cleared amendments to an existing gender-neutral law against sexual abuse of children introducing the provision of death penalty in cases of aggravated sexual offences and more stringent penal provisions aimed at clamping down on child pornography.

India’s Supreme Court says it would give a final hearing in August on petitions challenging the federal government’s decision to deport illegal Rohingya immigrants back to Myanmar.

At least 29 people are killed and 18 injured when a state-run double-decker bus travelling from Lucknow to Delhi falls into a large drain near Delhi’s Agra, Uttar Pradesh police says.

In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India’s rich and poor.

Fancy having a school or a train named after you, or getting priority boarding at airports? In India, this could soon be true for people who

An Indian court yesterday granted a 30-day parole to a woman convicted three decades ago over her role in the 1991 assassination of former

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government yesterday raised import tariffs on nearly 75 items including gold and automobile parts in its federal budget and increased taxes on the rich to hold down the fiscal deficit as it tries to revive growth.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appears before a court in Mumbai in connection with a defamation case filed against him by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS worker and pleaded not guilty to the charge.

A day after Rahul Gandhi gave finality to his decision to resign as Congress President owning responsibility for the party's drubbing in parliamentary poll, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today commended her brother saying "Few have the courage that you do".

Eight people were killed and at least 15 were missing yesterday after the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade breached a dam in the

Congress MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi says that he is no longer the President of the party. He also said that the party’s working committee should meet immediately and decide on who would be the next president of the Congress.

At least six people have been killed and 19 others went missing after a dam in India's Maharashtra's coastal Konkan region breached following incessant rain leading to flood-like situation in downstream villages, officials said.

At least 22 people are killed, 16 of them in India’s financial capital Mumbai, and over 80 injured in separate incidents of wall collapse in Maharashtra today following heavy rains.

At least 35 people were killed and 17 others injured as a minibus fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, police officials say.

At least 17 people have been killed after a boundary wall of a residential apartment complex collapsed and came crashing down on a cluster of huts adjacent to it in western Indian city of Pune.

More than 450,000 people have signed two petitions demanding that the Indian government declare a climate emergency as severe heatwaves and crippling water shortages grip the country.

It seems that Modi government’s success in the current term will depend to a large extent on managing domestic politics more than anything else, including foreign policy. I intend to highlight two key domestic concerns and their political management: negative social

India’s monsoon rains were below average for the fourth straight week, with rainfall scanty over central and western parts of the country in the week ended on Wednesday, raising concerns about major crop production and the impact on the nation’s economy.