Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has said she will contest the Lok Sabha elections against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi parliamentary constituency if asked by her brother and party chief Rahul Gandhi.

Five Indians have been confirmed killed in the string of near-coordinated blasts that ripped through churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, the government has said.

The chief justice of India's Supreme Court, Ranjan Gogoi, denies allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances towards a junior court assistant who worked in an office at his home and that she was subsequently victimised.

A Mayawati supporter in Bulandshahr who wanted to vote for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) severs the index finger of his left hand after he “accidentally” voted for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the second phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

At least 14 people sustain injuries when 12 coaches of the Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express derail near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh of India in the early hours of Saturday.

An Indian man chopped off his index finger in desperation after voting for the wrong party in the country’s national election.

India’s Election Commission (EC) seeks a report from the West Bengal chief electoral officer on a Bangla feature film stated to be a “biopic on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee” after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) sought a ban on commercial release of the film in the midst of the country’s parliamentary elections.

India clamps an indefinite suspension of trade on two routes along the de facto border with Pakistan in terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir state.

Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commission in West Bengal asks another Bangladeshi actor, Gazi Abdun Noor, to leave India over his involvement in the election campaign of TMC (Trinamool Congress).

Search engine Google and tech giant Apple have removed video-sharing media TikTok from their app stores in India following a court ban.

Voters across swathes of southern India begin queuing up in the second phase of a mammoth, staggered general election in which opposition parties are trying to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from winning a second term.

India’s Election Commission has suspended a senior officer for allegedly frisking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter while he was addressing an election meeting.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider a petition from a Muslim couple to allow women into mosques, seeking to overturn a centuries-old practice that largely bars women from the places of worship.

India’s Congress party demands a probe into alleged transportation of a "suspicious black trunk" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helicopter during his visit to Chitradurga in southern state of Karnataka for election meetings.

Raising fresh doubts about the credibility of Electronic Voting Machines being used in ongoing parliamentary elections, leaders of 21 opposition parties have demanded the Election Commission to increase the number of EVMs which are randomly verified using Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).

Priyanka Chopra believes sexual harassment had become a norm with women, but women had become stronger now and could no longer be “shut down”.

Russia announces its decision to confer the country’s highest state honour -- the Order of St Andrew the Apostle -- on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “exceptional services” in promoting the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May had said that ‘the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919 is a shameful scar on British Indian history.’

India’s Supreme Court issues a notice to West Bengal government on a petition filed by a Customs official who accused the state police of stopping customs officials at Kolkata airport from checking the baggage of a relative of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The first phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections saw long lines of voters in several places but concluded on Thursday with turnouts across 20 states more or less matching the voting percentages recorded in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, according to the Election Commission.