Deadly, drug-resistant tuberculosis -- as lethal as Ebola and tough to treat in even the best hospitals -- is a "blinking red" worldwide threat, the head of a global health fund warned in an interview with AFP.

A board that oversees an ancient Hindu hill temple in southern India said yesterday it now favoured allowing women of menstruating age to enter the temple, reversing its previous support for a centuries-old ban.

India's political parties have been abusing Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp ahead of the country's general election and the company has warned them not to do so, a senior executive said yesterday.

India yesterday imposed a ban on terror group Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, which has been fighting for "liberation of Kashmir" and involved in a series of terror acts in Jammu and Kashmir state, under the stringent Unlawful Activities Act.

A right-wing Indian woman who shot an effigy of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi with an air pistol to mark his assassination some seven decades ago has been arrested, police said yesterday. Pooja Shakun Pandey was filmed shooting the effigy at an event by a far-right Hindu group on Friday -- the 71st anniversary of Gandhi's death.

India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-31 has been successfully launched from a space port in French Guiana island.

Indian Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the CBI can't arrest Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe.

The Indian Supreme Court yesterday came down heavily on the federal government over the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) process and said it is hell bent on not allowing the work to continue.

An alliance of regional parties in India is working on a combined economic plan, one of its leaders said, in the latest sign that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces an increasingly united opposition in the upcoming general election.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is lording it over India just like the British, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said in a blistering pre-election broadside published yesterday.

BJP, the ruling party of India, questions West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s sit-in protest which starts after Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar is taken to a police station and is detained there for hours for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before he is released, reports NDTV.

At least six passengers were killed and more than 20 injured yesterday after an express train derailed in eastern India's Bihar state, officials said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh should worry about winning their own Lok Sabha seats before dreaming of victory in West Bengal.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, part of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for much of the time since its independence from the British in 1947, joined the struggle in January, when the opposition Congress party made her its face in the nation’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

An Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft crashes in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru immediately after taking off, killing both pilots.

India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay K Gokhale summons Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood late yesterda night and lodged a strong protest against Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s phone call to a moderate Kashmir separatist leader saying such action tantamount to a “direct interference” in India’s internal affairs.

Launching a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale jet deal, Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday alleged that he "sold" the Indian Air Force (IAF) and "stole" opportunities of the youth by giving away Rs 30,000 crore to his "friend" and businessman Anil Ambani.

As the BJP faces heat over the Citizenship Bill in the northeast, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that his party will always protect the interests of Assam.

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said yesterday that his party will introduce a "minimum income guarantee" for the poor if it returns to power in elections this year.

Kuldip Nayar, a doyen of Indian journalism and a fearless champion of media freedom, has been posthumously honoured with the Indian government's third highest civilian honour -- the Padma Bhushan.