An Indian state minister yesterday courted controversy for his remarks on Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, saying, votes are not won with "a very pretty face" in politics. Vinod Narayan Jha, a minister of Bihar, said Priyanka Gandhi has no political achievement to her credit.

A lightweight satellite designed by students that can be held in the palm of the hand has been launched by Indian scientists, burnishing the country's credentials in miniature design technology.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling coalition will emerge as the largest group in a parliamentary election expected in the next few months but will fall short of a majority required to rule, two surveys showed on Thursday.

Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine has been blocked in China, the company said on Wednesday, making it the latest foreign technology service to be shut down behind the country's Great Firewall.

Amid renewed demands against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora yesterday asserted that the Election Commission is not going back to ballot papers.

India's navy opened a third air base in the far-off Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday to beef up surveillance of Chinese ships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the nearby Malacca Straits, military officials and experts said.

Farmers staged a protest and raised slogans against Congress President Rahul Gandhi in his parliamentary constituency Amethi in India's Uttar Pradesh.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of India's Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, formally entered politics yesterday with the party appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party's intent to go full throttle in the key political battleground ahead of the general elections.

In the midst of growing protests in north eastern states against the Citizenship Amendment Bill for non-Muslims from Bangladesh,

The Indian government instructed Facebook and Google to take down "false and malicious" contents that spread misinformation about the food quality and safety in the country, reports The Times of India.

India's opposition parties drew half a million supporters to Kolkata's streets yesterday for the largest show of force yet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a national election looms.

India is all set to use space technology in a big way, including by launching a satellite for exclusive use of the Home Ministry, to tone up border security and management.

India is all set to use space technology in a big way, including by launching a satellite for exclusive use of the Home Ministry, to tone up border security and management.

Indian emergency workers said yesterday they have found the body of one of 15 miners trapped inside a so-called "rat hole" mine for over a month. The illegal and dangerous mine in Meghalaya was flooded on December 13. The Indian Navy spotted the body inside the deluged shaft at a depth of 160-210 feet with the help of a remote-controlled probe.

The Supreme Court yesterday relaxed stringent conditions imposed by the state government for getting licences for dance bars, paving the way for their opening in Mumbai and other cities in Maharashtra. The top court said that there cannot be total prohibition on dance bars by imposing unreasonable conditions as no licence has been granted by state since 2005.

Voices of dissent within the Bharatiya Janata Party in the north eastern India over the Citizenship Amendment Bill is growing by the day.

A disgraced religious sect leader was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for murdering a journalist who exposed rampant sexual abuses by the powerful guru.

Indian navy divers found the body of one of 15 miners who went missing in a flooded coal mine in a remote corner of the country more than a month ago, officials say.

One of the two women who infuriated Hindu traditionalists by entering a revered shrine in India was attacked by her mother-in-law yesterday as soon as she returned home after days on the run, police said.

Animal rights activists in India and netizens on social media are outraged after 16 mutilated and dead puppies are found in garbage bags at a hospital in Kolkata.