India yesterday said people whose names are missing from a list of citizens to be issued by a border state this month will not be detained, amid concerns that Muslims will be targeted under the guise of detecting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Three rebels are killed in a gun battle with Indian troops in disputed Kashmir, police say.

A Muslim man died early yesterday after he was attacked by vigilantes while transporting cows in Rajasthan state, police said.

A day after creating a flutter in the Lok Sabha by hugging Indian PM Narendra Modi and later winking, Congress President Rahul Gandhi yesterday said the only way to build a nation is by harnessing love and compassion of people.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi terms as “unwanted” the hug he received from Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the parliament saying it was a result of the opposition’s lack of reason for their no-confidence motion against his government.

A man suspected to be smuggling cows has been beaten to death by a mob in yet another instance of vigilantism in Alwar district of northern Indian state of Rajasthan, police say.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi takes the lower house of Parliament by surprise as he decides to hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of his fiery speech during the debate on the no-confidence motion.

WhatsApp yesterday announced limits on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its biggest market.

It was a rare hug-and-wink situation during a debate on a no-trust motion in the lower House of Indian parliament yesterday.

India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi surprises Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a hug in the Lok Sabha, the lower House of parliament, after launching a blistering attack on him alleging corruption to the tune of Rs 45,000 crore in the purchase of fighter jets from France.

The Lok Sabha, the lower House of Indian parliament, begins a debate on the first no-confidence motion sponsored by the opposition against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The United States has offered India the armed version of Guardian drones that were originally authorized for sale as unarmed for surveillance purposes, a senior US official and an industry source told Reuters.

More than 100 Indian rescue workers were yesterday using steel cutters and drills to try and free a dozen people feared trapped under

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face his first no-confidence motion tomorrow sponsored by the opposition parties since assuming power more than four years ago.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday lambasted the "favouritism" being shown towards the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, alleging that in the run-up to the elections there is a movement underway to form "a puppet alliance" and a new Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, giving Khan and his party a leg up in the polls.

A six-story building under construction collapsed onto an adjacent building east of the Indian capital, killing at least three people and trapping several others under the debris, police say.

India has ordered an immediate inspection of all childcare homes run by a religious order founded by Mother Teresa after a nun was arrested over an alleged adoption racket.

India's Supreme Court yesterday asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called "horrendous acts" of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year.

Indian police yesterday said that 17 men have been arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl over several weeks, in the country's latest horrific sexual assault case.

The Supreme Court of India says the incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism cannot be allowed to become a new norm, and asks the parliament to consider enacting a new law with provision for deterrent punishment to effectively deal with such incidents.