The Indian High Court bestows the status of "legal person or entity" to animals in northern state of Uttarakhand saying "they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person."

As India braces for state-level and fresh parliamentary elections in the coming months, the country's Election Commission has launched an Android-based app to report any irregularity during the democratic exercise.

The Indian government has asked popular messaging app WhatsApp to take urgent steps to prevent the circulation of “irresponsible and explosive content” that have led to a series of lynching by mobs that left 12 people dead across the country in the past few weeks.

India has agreed to provide tariff concessions on 3,142 products to six Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) member-countries, including Bangladesh, from this month. These duty concessions will be more for least developed countries, Indian government says.

A small chartered plane crashed in a busy area of Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, killing at least six people including two on the ground, police say.

In the backdrop of an "all-time high" threat perception to Indian Prime Minister ahead of general elections, the federal Home Ministry has issued fresh security guidelines to states as per which not even ministers and officers will be allowed to come too close to the Prime Minister unless cleared by his Special Protection Group (SPG).

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday after a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll found the country was seen as the most dangerous for women in the world, calling it a "shame".

Five women working for a charity in remote eastern India were abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint, police said yesterday, in the latest horrific sex assault in the country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads thousands of people in marking the fourth edition of International Yoga Day celebrations by performing breathing exercises and ‘asanas.’

Chief Minister of India’s Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti resigns today after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ends its alliance with People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

India said Sunday it was resuming military operations against rebels in disputed Kashmir after a rare 30-day suspension for Ramadan

In a daring operation, the Indian Navy succeeds in anchoring a burning merchant ship off the Sagar Island in West Bengal at the mouth of the Ganges Delta.

A senior journalist of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, who was associated with the peace process in the insurgency-hit state, was shot dead on Thursday evening by unidentified gunmen just outside his office.

Air pollution soared in New Delhi to hazardous levels yesterday rarely seen outside winter as sand blown from deserts enveloped the Indian capital in a once-in-a-decade phenomenon.

The UN human rights chief yesterday called for a major investigation into abuses in Kashmir, as his office released its first-ever report on violations committed by both India and Pakistan in the disputed territory.

Eight people have been murdered by lynch mobs across India in less than a week, officials said yesterday, as law enforcement struggles

The air pollution in Delhi, India’s most polluted city, continue to be above the "severe" level for the third day as authorities caution people against staying outdoors for more than three to four hours.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepts the fitness challenge given to him by Indian Captain Virat Kohli on his twitter account.

At least 17 people are killed and 20 injured as a bus overturned after hitting a divider in Mainpuri district of northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh this morning, police say.

Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Odisha have decided to install lightning sensors so that people can be warned about possible lightning strike, an official says.