Parts of four Indian states witnessed clashes on Sunday (April 10, 2022) amid the Ram Navami celebrations, with one death reported from Gujarat, Indian media reported today.

India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remark – on last Thursday – that people from various states should speak in Hindi, not English, and that Hindi should be regarded as an alternative to English, is drawing sharp criticism, Time of India reports.

The western Indian state of Gujarat today confirmed its first case of XE variant of Covid-19 -- a more infectious but not more severe than Omicron strain.

India today announced its decision to expand the coverage of Covid-19 “precautionary dose”, also known as a booster dose, to all adults from April 10 at private vaccination centres.

India, the world’s third largest oil importer, has said it is considering ways to support the decision by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and member countries of releasing crude from their national reserves in order to help cool rising prices.

India yesterday claimed it foiled an attempted cyber-attack by Chinese hackers targeting its power distribution system near a

Former chief of Amnesty International India, Aakar Patel, today (April 6, 2022) alleged that he was stopped from travelling to the US by Indian immigration authorities at Bengaluru International Airport.

India’s government yesterday said it has banned 22 YouTube channels, including four of Pakistani origin, for disinformation on subjects concerning national security and public order, the latest such federal crackdown in the country.

India’s Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday stressed on “unity at all levels” and resilience as she spoke at a weekly meeting of party MPs about what she called the party’s “shocking and painful” election defeats.

India’s government yesterday said it has banned 22 YouTube channels, including four of Pakistani origin, for disinformation on subjects concerning national security and public order, the latest such federal crackdown in the country.

India has ordered the blocking of 22 YouTube-based news channels, of which 18 are Indian and four from Pakistan, for allegedly spreading fake news to mislead viewers.

Career diplomat and Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been named as India’s new foreign secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla who is retiring at the end of this month.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and inaugurated the Himalayan nation’s only railway link with its southern neighbour yesterday in a summit meant to deepen relations.

India has hit back at those criticising the country’s procurement of cheaper Russian crude to meet energy requirement amid market volatility.

A special court in India has sentenced two Bangladeshi brothers to four years of imprisonment for illegally staying in the neighbouring country using forged documents.

Forty girl students from Udupi district of the southern Indian state of Karnataka abstained from appearing for the first pre-university examination on Tuesday as they were apparently hurt by the recent High Court verdict against wearing of hijab inside classrooms.

Wearing of hijab would not be allowed during the 10th standard examination of the Karnataka State Board commencing tomorrow, the southern Indian state’s Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh said today.

A Bangladeshi national was found dead inside the room of a hotel in central Kolkata on Thursday, a media report said today quoting police.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi tonight on a previously unannounced visit, the first to India by a senior leader from Beijing since the armies of the two countries were involved in a clash in eastern Ladakh in May, 2020.

India today reacted sharply to references made to it in statements and resolutions adopted in the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Council, in Pakistan.