India's anti-terror agency yesterday said it had busted a local militant cell inspired by the Islamic State group that was planning to carryout bombings and target prominent political figures.

Amidst a debate over Indian government's move to give sweeping powers to security agencies to intercept the contents on computers,

India's longest railroad bridge across the Brahmaputra river was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday marking a strategic connectivity project that will facilitate faster movement of civilians as well as defence personnel between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh bordering China.

Pollution levels in New Delhi have hit their worst this year in the past two days - earning a "severe" to "emergency" rating and indicating conditions that can spark a public health crisis.

A powerful cyclone left one person dead and forced thousands to flee their homes on India's east coast, officials said yesterday. Cyclone Phethai packed winds up to 90 kilometres (55 miles) per hour, felling thousands of trees and electricity pylons, and bringing heavy rains to the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh after making landfall on Monday.

At least six people die and more than 145 are rescued after a fire ripped through a government hospital in India's financial capital Mumbai, officials say.

India will send observers to monitor the upcoming general elections of Bangladesh scheduled to be held on December 30.

India’s Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has gone to the grassroots to select chief ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

India's only dedicated "cow minister" has been dumped in state elections, ending a controversial tenure that saw hundreds of the sacred animals starve to death and poisoned on his watch.

India has handed Myanmar the first batch of 50 houses New Delhi built in Rakhine for Rohingya refugees on their return from Bangladesh.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is staring at election losses in big heartland states, polls show, suggesting that farm distress and a lack of jobs for growing numbers of young people could prove stumbling blocks for his re-election bid in May.

Entry into the main mausoleum at the Taj Mahal, the 17th century white marble monument of love, will be costlier from now on.

Exit polls for five Indian states in elections, billed as the semi-final before next year's general elections, predict a worrying outcome for the BJP in three heartland states, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

India's toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that year, according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health on Thursday.

China, the US, the European Union and India have been ranked as the world's top four emitters respectively of carbon dioxide accounting for 58 percent of global emissions in 2017, according to a study.

India says it considers the coming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an “internal affair” of Bangladesh and it was inappropriate to make any comment on that.

Two men accused of trying to molest a 20-year-old woman in northern India set her on fire two days after she lodged a complaint with police, authorities and her family say.

While the audience shared the intensity with which many of his contemporaries and admirers expressed their admiration for the music legend Salil Chowdhury on his 93rd birth anniversary, there was a depressing footnote when his daughter, Antara, confessed that it had become quite difficult to arrange a celebration even on a small scale.

Tens of thousands of farmers and agricultural workers marched towards the Indian parliament yesterday, demanding debt waivers and higher crop prices, putting pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of 2019 elections.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told him about plans to scale up investments in India's tech, farm and energy sectors, an Indian official and the Saudi news agency (SPA) said yesterday.