Three suspected rebels and a civilian were killed in a gun battle yesterday in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said, the first in the restive region's main city this year.

Police arrested 14 men yesterday after a teenager was raped and burned alive at her home in eastern India, in the latest case of sexual violence in the country.

Birdsongs will be broadcast live on India’s government radio channel ‘All India Radio’ or ‘Akashbani’ on May 6 to create awareness among the younger generation about wildlife conservation.

There is widespread interest about autonomous vehicles in India, Malaysia, China and South Korea, according to a survey in selected countries.

The death toll from freak storms that hit India climbed above 140 yesterday as people told how they had no time to escape fierce winds which tore down homes, walls and trees.

Two teenagers have been gang raped in separate incidents in India in the past four days, highlighting a rape epidemic that shows no sign of abating despite tougher penalties introduced last month.

An Indian tea vendor caught on video taking water from a train toilet before selling his drinks to passengers has been fined amid heightened concern in India over food safety.

India’s Supreme Court expresses concern over the change of colour of the 17th century white marble Taj Mahal in Agra saying the monument had become yellowish earlier and is now turning brownish and greenish.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ends informal meetings with a promise to reduce border tensions after a high-altitude standoff in the Himalayas last year.

Thirteen children are killed when a school van collides with a train at an unmanned railway crossing in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a police official says.

Indian security forces gun down 16 Maoists in a forest in western Indian state of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district.

India promulgates an ordinance providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

A group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an “open letter” to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, voicing “deep anger and anguish” at recent incidents of rape in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh states.

One of India's best known politicians, former finance and foreign minister Yashwant Sinha, quits the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is undermining democratic institutions.

Amidst outrage over a series of rape incidents of children across the country, the Indian cabinet today approved an ordinance to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 to introduce the death penalty for rape of children younger than 12 years.

The world's second largest Banyan tree in Mahabubnagar district of India’s Telangana which is almost dying, is on ‘saline drip’ now as part of the rejuvenation.

Indian top politicians have increasingly, by 490% to be exact, used hateful and decisive language in past four years under Modi-led government, a research by NDTV reveals.

India has now opened 160 educational institutions of national importance to foreign students in the first-ever initiative of its kind offering 15,000 seats under the programme in the first round.

India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.

At least 21 revellers were killed en route to a wedding when their truck flew off a bridge, police said yesterday. The truck, carrying more