The Allahabad High Court in India today (May 6, 2022) ruled that delivering azaan on loudspeakers is not a fundamental right, ANI reported.

India yesterday published a new list of redrawn political constituencies for the former state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), giving greater representation to the Muslim-majority region’s Hindu areas and paving the way for fresh elections.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today reiterated that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which gives Indian citizenship to “persecuted” religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying the law would be implemented once the Covid-19 pandemic ends.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, today flagged off six floating border outposts at Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, saying the measure would help curb smuggling and infiltration.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended greetings to their countrymen on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Indian police today (May, 2022) detained 24 suspected Rohingya, including women and children, from Kailashahar in the Unakoti district of the northeastern state of Tripura when they were attempting to return to Bangladesh.

No individual in India can be forced to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the country’s Supreme Court said today.

Senior diplomat Vinay Mohan Kwatra, known for his expertise in dealing with India’s South Asian neighbourhood, today took charge as the country’s new foreign secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla who retired from the service.

“Unplanned” cargo loading by the staff of Bangladeshi container vessel MV Marintrust-01 resulted into its capsize at Shyamaprasad Mukhopadhyay port in India’s Kolkata on March 24, according to a preliminary probe.

The Agartala-Kolkata bus service via Dhaka, which was scheduled to resume from today (April 28, 2022) after a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was postponed minutes before restart owing to "technical reasons", Agartala city Mayor Dipak Majumder said.

Indian American supermodel and author Padma Lakshmi recently took to Twitter to assert that there is "no threat to Hinduism in India" and protest "violence against Muslims in the country".

India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday, as New Delhi sweltered in extreme heat and a burning landfill on the outskirts of the capital spewed toxic smoke into the air.

The former commandant of India’s Border Security Force Satish Kumar has been shown arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to alleged cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal state, the Enforcement Directorate said today (April 25. 2022).

India’s prime minister yesterday promised peace and development for Jammu and Kashmir, during his first public event in the disputed territory since it imposed a sweeping security clampdown nearly three years ago.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters on the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

Thirteen undocumented Rohingya immigrants, including women and children, were arrested in West Bengal state's New Jalpaiguri railway station when they headed back to their camps in Bangladesh, police said.

The United Kingdom and India have agreed to step up defence and business cooperation, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicating a bilateral free-trade deal could be wrapped up by October this year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effusive about the warm welcome he got in India, prompting him to describe his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as a “khaas dost” and gushed that he felt like Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.

Two foreigners, suspected to be Ukrainian nationals, have been detained by police at Badarpur Railway Station in northeastern Indian state Assam as they were disembarked from a train for travelling without valid documents, a police officer said today (April 22, 2022)

In view of a spurt in coronavirus cases in the city, the New Delhi government yesterday made wearing of masks mandatory in public places and imposed a fine