Two pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving the aircraft.

Google recently blocked access to Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the Indian version of popular multiplayer game PUBG, citing an order from the Indian government.

The proceedings in the Lok Sabha, lower House of Indian parliament, were adjourned for the day today (July 29, 2022) amid uproar and protests by opposition and BJP members over senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's controversial remark about India’s first Santal President Droupadi Murmu.

A two-seater MiG-21 trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed during a training session at an air base in Rajasthan, leaving two pilots dead on Thursday (July 28) evening.

Six days after his arrest, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday sacked Partha Chatterjee from her cabinet and suspended him from all party posts.

India, which is trying to expand its influence in Sri Lanka amid the island’s economic troubles and is worried that China is also making inroads, yesterday said it

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said yesterday, with authorities

A man with alleged links to Bangladesh-based militant group Ansar al Islam was arrested from Morigaon district in India’s Assam where he runs a madrasa, police said today (July 28, 2022).

India’s top opposition leader and Congress Acting President Sonia Gandhi today (July 28, 2022) got involved in a major spat with BJP leaders, including federal minister Smriti Irani, at the Lok Sabha.

At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers.

A young man in Jammu and Kashmir’s remote Bandipora district has successfully handwritten the Holy Quran on a 500-metre-long paper scroll.

India’s Supreme Court has dismissed petitions by private tour operators seeking exemption from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the Hajj and Umrah tours they offer.

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was released by the Delhi Police almost over six hours after he was detained during his party’s march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhawan, officials said yesterday. 

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition party Congress, was detained today after he led a protest and sat on a road in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate, reports NDTV.

India’s first president from a marginalised Santal community, Droupadi Murmu, said yesterday after being sworn in that her election was an “achievement of every poor person in the country”.

Nobel laureate Bangalee economist Amartya Sen has expressed his inability to receive the “Bangabibhusan”, the highest civilian award conferred by the West Bengal government, according to his daughter Antara Dev Sen.

The original name of Draupadi Murmu – a Santal who was sworn in today (July 25, 2022) as the first tribal President of India – was “Puti”, she says.

In her first speech shortly after being sworn in as India’s first president from a tribal community, Droupadi Murmu today asserted that her election “proves poor Indians cannot only dream but also fulfil aspirations.”

Droupadi Murmu was sworn in as India’s first president from the tribal community at the iconic central hall of parliament in New Delhi today (July 25, 2022), capping an extraordinary journey from a humble beginning in the eastern state of Odisha to the highest constitutional office.

A 34-year-old man in Delhi with no history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox virus, making it the fourth case of the infection in India and the first in the national capital.