UN chief Antonio Guterres chided India during a visit there yesterday over its human rights record, which critics say has regressed under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indian authorities have stopped a photojournalist from boarding a flight to the United States, where she had planned to attend a ceremony to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (October 19, 2022) laid the foundation stone of a new strategic air base at Deesa in his home state of Gujarat. The base is just 130km from the border with Pakistan.

India’s veteran politician Mallikarjun Kharge has won the Congress president election and is set to become the party's first non-Gandhi leader in 24 years, NDTV reports.

Two migrant labourers were killed when militants hurled a grenade at their home in Indian Kashmir’s Shopian district, local police said yesterday.

Seven people including six pilgrims were killed today when the helicopter they were on board crashed on the Himalayan mountains amidst poor visibility near the iconic Kedarnath temple in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

A 96 percent voter turnout was recorded for the election to the post of Congress’ first chief outside the Gandhi dynasty in 25 years.

Dilip Mahalanabis, a pioneer in oral rehydration therapy who saved thousands of lives from cholera outbreak at a refugee relief camp during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata yesterday (October 17, 2022) at the age of 87, PTI reported citing sources.

For the first time in over 24 years, India's main opposition Congress party will vote to elect a non-Gandhi president tomorrow (October 17, 2022).

India today (October 15, 2022) announced an increase in the windfall profit tax on the export of diesel and that on jet fuel exports with effect from October 16 in a move that will make the two products costlier.

India's Tata Power (TTPW.NS) late on Friday reported a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure that impacted some of its systems.

India today (October 14, 2022) carried out the successful launch of a ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Bay of Bengal.

An Indian Supreme Court panel yesterday said it was divided over a ban on hijabs in schools, and referred the matter to the chief justice, effectively leaving in

India yesterday scrapped a rule granting voting rights to new residents of its Jammu and Kashmir region after widespread anger among political parties, who labelled it a bid to change the demographics of the country’s only Muslim-majority region.

A two-member bench of India’s Supreme Court today gave a split verdict on petitions challenging a ban upheld by the Karnataka state high court on wearing hijab in educational institutions.

Indian police said yesterday they have arrested three people including a man claiming to be an occult practitioner for allegedly killing two women as human sacrifices in the belief they would become rich.

Indian police said Wednesday they have arrested three people including a man claiming to be an occult practitioner for allegedly killing two women as human sacrifices in the belief they would become rich.

India's retail inflation accelerated to a five month high of 7.30% in September due to surging food prices, staying well above the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) upper tolerance band for a ninth month, a Reuters poll found.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday (October 10, 2022) observed that a plea on hate speeches against minorities in the country perhaps may be right in saying the entire atmosphere is getting sullied due to this type of public discourse and needs to be curbed.

Veteran Indian politician and former chief minister of the country's most populous state Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away at a corporate hospital in Gurugram this morning (October 10, 2022).