The Calcutta High Court has rejected the election petition of West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Alorani Sarkar, who lost last year’s assembly poll from Bangaon Dakshin constituency on the grounds that she has dual citizenship of Bangladesh and India and cannot declare herself as “Indian”, as the law of the country does not allow it.

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has closed Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's tomb in Maharashtra state's Aurangabad for five days after a mosque committee in the area tried to lock the place, an official said today.

Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced on Thursday to one year in jail, nearly 35 years after he was accused of killing a man in a fit of rage.

A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh state today allowed a lawsuit by Shri Krishna Janambhoomi Trust and other private parties seeking ownership of the land on which the Shahi Idgah Masjid stands in the pilgrim town of Mathura.

India’s top court yesterday ordered the release of a man jailed over the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, more than 30 years after he was

Master director Satyajit Ray loved Varanasi. He shot two of his films “Aparajito” and “Joi Baba Felunath” in the city – bringing to the audience the old world charm of the ghats of the Ganges and its blind alleys. The same city is now in the news for an entirely different reason.

India’s Supreme Court today ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who has served over 30 years of life term in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

India plans the rollout of 6G telecom network, which will provide ultra high-speed internet connectivity, by the end of the decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

As debate over the 22 closed rooms in Taj Mahal reverberated in and out of the court last week, the Archaeological Survey of India has released pictures of some of the said underground rooms of the 17th century monument of love. The rooms were opened in January this year for conservation work.

The maximum temperature recorded in the national capital reached 49 degree Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said yesterday, as intense heatwave is sweeping through northern part of the country.

India's ban on wheat export will not prevent export to neighbouring countries and countries that might wish to procure the current produce to supplement their domestic food security policies, at the request of their governments, said a statement of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.

India today (May 16, 2022) criticised the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its "unwarranted" comments on the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir.

Prashanto Kumar Halder, former MD of NRB Global Bank who is accused of laundering huge sums of money, is likely to be produced before a court in Kolkata tomorrow (May 17, 2022) when India’s Enforcement Directorate is expected to seek extension of his remand in its custody.

Doctor-turned-politician Manik Saha was today sworn in as the chief minister of north eastern Indian state of Tripura, a day after Biplab Deb stepped down amid feud in the party.

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb yesterday resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.

India today indicated that it would not allow the food security of its South Asian neighbours to be hit by the ban imposed on exports of wheat and that the measure was a temporary one.

India’s ruling BJP today effected a change of top leadership in the north eastern state of Tripura as Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned and replaced by Manik Saha amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections there.

Chief Minister of India’s BJP-ruled Tripura state Biplab Kumar Deb today resigned from the post amidst serious infighting in the party’s state unit one year ahead of fresh assembly elections.

Twenty-seven people died and dozens more were injured in a massive fire in a building in the Indian capital New Delhi yesterday, emergency services said.

At least 26 people were dead and more than 60 received burn injuries in a fire near a metro rail station in Delhi on Friday (May 13, 2022), Delhi Fire Services chief Atul Garg said.