A mutual charm offensive was on display between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus at an international event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat state.

Sixty-three Bangalee Hindu families who had migrated to India in the 1970s from the then East Pakistan, were on Tuesday (April 19, 2022) handed papers for houses and agricultural land in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh state.

The number of India’s daily Covid-19 cases crossed the 2,000-mark once again with 2,067 new infections reported in 24 hours, according to the data by Indian health ministry.

A Mumbai court granted bail to three students in the case relating to Bulli Bai app, which targeted Muslim women by arranging for their "auction", holding that their "immature age and understanding" was misused by other accused with "deeper understanding".

The Editors Guild of India today asked media outlets of the country to exercise utmost restraint while reporting incidents of communal disturbances and not become pawns in the larger game of polarization.

India’s daily Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, ending this morning, registered a big decline with 1,247 infections being reported in a day.

At least 88 people have been arrested in India in connection with violence against police after a comment insulting Muslims went viral on social

India’s tally of daily Covid-19 cases nearly doubled yesterday from the previous day to more than 2,000 for the first time in a month, government data showed, and the southern state of Kerala reported a big jump in deaths.

Lieutenant General Manoj Pande was today appointed India’s next chief of the Indian Army, ANI reported.

India today recorded a sharp rise in daily Covid-19 cases, stoking fears of a fourth wave of the virus.

Indian police arrested 14 people in connection with violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims during a Hindu religious procession in the country’s capital, New Delhi, police said in a tweet yesterday.

Implementing one of the key pre-poll promises within a month of assuming power, the Aam Admi Party government in the north Indian state of Punjab on Saturday (April 16, 2022) announced 300 units of free electricity for households from July one.

India has opposed the methodology used by World Health Organization (WHO) for estimating deaths caused by Covid-19 in the country.

Violence erupted between two communities in Northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri locality during a religious procession tonight, police said.

Thirteen opposition leaders of India, including Congress President Sonia Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, today issued a joint statement against growing incidents of hate speech and communal violence in parts of the country.

The annual festival in southern Indian state Karnataka’s Chennakeshava Temple stuck to its age-old tradition by beginning with holy Quran recital, notwithstanding opposition from right-wing Hindu groups, Hindustan Times reported.

The Indian police today (April 13, 2022) arrested a Hindu seer who had allegedly made a hate speech and issued a "rape threat" to Muslim women in the Sitapur area of Uttar Pradesh state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is facing a major backlash over her remarks casting doubts on the alleged gang-rape, murder of a 14-year-old girl in Nadia district, seeking to know whether the teenager was "raped or she was in a relationship and already pregnant".

India hopes that Pakistan’s new prime minister will herald a diplomatic thaw between the two nuclear-armed foes after years of tensions, analysts say.

The government of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram has begun issuing identity cards to refugees from Myanmar who have fled their country post-military coup to take shelter in the state.