India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022 and roll out a health insurance scheme from September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday in his last Independence Day speech ahead of next year's general election.

As India celebrates its 72nd Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country’s first manned space mission would be sent by the year 2022 and set the launch date of an ambitious health care mission aimed at benefitting ten crore people from September.

Cyber criminals hacked the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphoned off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries over the weekend, the bank tells police.

Indian former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who was hospitalised in a critical condition last week, breathes his last following a prolonged illness.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is quoted in an interview published today as saying that “preventing illegal migrants was a commitment in the Indira-Mujib Accord of 1972 and Rajiv Gandhi-AASU (All Assam Students Union) of 1985.”

India's first all-female commando police team, equipped to fight terrorists and pull off hostage rescue operations, starts working on Friday.

The Maldives wants India to withdraw military helicopters and personnel posted there following the expiry of an agreement in June, its envoy said, the latest snub to New Delhi by President Abdulla Yameen's China-backed government.

A caterpillar native to the Americas that has devastated crops across Africa has made its way to Asia, scientists in India said yesterday, warning of a threat to food security.

India yesterday asserted that it did not apprehend any impact on its ties with Bangladesh due to the issue of National Register of Citizens in Assam.

At least 18 people are killed as heavy rains and landslides hit parts of India’s southern state of Kerala, officials say.

A stampede yesterday among thousands of mourners at the funeral of a powerful southern Indian politician killed two people and injured

Begging in India’s capital is not a crime, the Delhi High Court rules saying the provisions of penalising the act of begging were unconstitutional.

Thousands mourned in southern India yesterday after the death of revered 94-year-old political leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi. Karunanidhi, a charismatic self-styled champion of the poor, had been in intensive care since July 28 in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu state.

India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the case of misuse, according to a document seen by Reuters.

An Army Major and three soldiers were killed in a gunfight with a large group of terrorists who were trying to infiltrate from Gurez in north Kashmir yesterday. The infiltration bid was foiled and two terrorists were also shot dead, the army said in a statement.

India's top court yesterday ordered the government to explain what it was doing to prevent rape at state-run children's homes as horrific details emerge of sex abuse rings. Narendra Modi's political opponents also seized on the scandals at two government-run facilities, accusing the prime minister of keeping quiet about India's record of rape.

In a major breakthrough, India’s elite anti-terror probe body National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested four suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB), including a top leader, in India.

West Bengal Chief Minister and also Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee publishes a poem on her Facebook account expressing her disagreement on the current political stance of Modi led government, The Times of India reports.

At least 11 workers were killed and four others injured after a stock of dynamite caught fire and exploded at a granite quarry in southern

India's government was under fresh fire yesterday over its relationship with the media after it emerged a farmer was coached to lie in a televised chat with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.