India and China on Monday signed a bilateral pact on security cooperation as New Delhi asked Beijing not to give shelter to fugitive ULFA insurgent group leader Paresh Barua and stop thwarting efforts to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed group leader Maulana Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

India's main opposition Congress party has said it would not name its leader Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate of an alliance seeking to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi in next year's general election.

Protesters have attempted to stall trains across Assam during a general strike of indigenous groups enforced in protest against the Indian government’s Bill that aims at giving citizenship to “persecuted” Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Indian police said "leftover explosives" were responsible for a blast in Kashmir that killed at least six civilians Sunday as they protested against government forces shooting dead three alleged militants. Protesters had surged the site of a shootout in southern Kulgam town, chanting slogans against Indian rule and hurling rocks at troops.

In a veiled attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that to keep "one family" above the rest, efforts were made to forget the contributions leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Subhash Chandra Bose made in the Independence struggle.

Around 60 people die when a train ploughs into a crowd of revellers watching a firework display in India, officials says.

China has alerted India about a flash flood threat in the Brahmaputra River originating in Tibet following a landslide that led to the formation of an artificial lake in its territory.

Fox Star Studios yesterday sacked a Bollywood director working on a Hindi-language remake of hit US movie "The Fault In Our Stars" after he was accused of sexual harassment by two women.

A senior leader of India's ruling party warned yesterday that protesters in the southern state of Kerala would take the law into their hands if officials attempted to let women enter a hill temple at the centre of a raging controversy.

NDTV has been sued for Rs 10,000 crores by Anil Ambani's Reliance Group in a court in Ahmedabad for its reportage on the Rafale fighter jet deal.

At least 50 people are killed today after a train plowed into revellers gathered to watch a Hindu festival in India's northern Amritsar city, police saya

Fox Star Studios sacks a Bollywood director working on a Hindi-language remake of hit US movie "The Fault In Our Stars" after he is accused of sexual harassment by two women.

Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers, threw stones at buses and ordered a 12-hour strike yesterday to successfully bar women from one of India's holiest temples for a second day.

A Delhi court yesterday asked India's former junior minister for External Affairs M J Akbar to testify before it on October 31 in the criminal defamation complaint he filed against his former journalist-colleague Priya Ramani who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago.

Defamation lawsuits filed by two Indian public figures accused of sexual harassment have sparked warnings from women's rights activists and legal experts that prolonged court battles could put the brakes on the country's nascent #MeToo movement.

Conservative Hindu groups prevent women from entering an Indian hill temple, in defiance of India's top court which says a centuries-long ban at the holy site is illegal.

An Indian government minister resigned yesterday, saying he was doing so in order to fight accusations of sexual harassment levied by several women, the most high-profile casualty of a growing #MeToo movement.

India has reported an outbreak of the Zika virus, which is spread through mosquito, with 80 confirmed cases since last month including 22 pregnant women in the western state of Rajasthan, officials said yesterday. In rare cases, if pregnant women contract the virus their babies can develop brain defects.

As the #MeToo movement gains ground in India, 19 female journalists who worked with 'The Asian Age' newspaper and one who worked with Deccan Chronicle, came out in support of their colleague Priya Ramani who has accused union minister MJ Akbar of sexual harassment, a joint statement issued by them said.

The northern Indian city of Allahabad will henceforth be called Prayagraj after the Uttar Pradesh state cabinet cleared the change of name yesterday.