The Congress’s disastrous showing in the assembly elections to five states has added to a series of poor results, raising serious questions about the road ahead for India’s oldest party.

The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making forum of India’s main opposition yesterday met in New Delhi to discuss the debacles it suffered in recent assembly elections in five states amidst calls by leaders and workers for return of Rahul Gandhi as party chief.

Indian police today arrested four Bangladeshi nationals, who are alleged members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

“Jhadu (broom) is a key part of my daily life. I can’t think of living away from it. Whatever the position of my son, I will continue to work as a sweeper in our school.”

The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making forum of India’s main opposition, today met in New Delhi to discuss the debacles it suffered in recent assembly elections in five states amidst calls by leaders and workers for return of Rahul Gandhi as party chief.

The Congress has denied the rumours that the Gandhis -- Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra -- are going to offer their resignation at its top meeting tomorrow, reports India’s news portal NDTV.

At least seven people were killed after a fire broke out in a cluster of shanties in Delhi's Gokulpuri area in the wee hours of today, police and fire brigade officials said.

Top officials of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party and an army of its supporters bombarded voters with disinformation as key states went to the polls, specialists say.

India’s military accidentally fired a missile into neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said yesterday, calling it “deeply regrettable”.

Overcoming strong anti-incumbency sentiments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP yesterday stormed back into power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

Breaking a 37-year-old jinx, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -- led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- was today poised to storm back to power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart has apologised for its sexist marketing of kitchen appliances on Women’s Day.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was set for a resounding victory but a reduced majority at elections in the country’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, exit polls forecast yesterday.

At least five personnel of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) were killed today when their colleague allegedly opened fire at a BSF camp in Punjab state’s Amritsar, officials said.

Bangladesh and India have decided to conduct a feasibility study on a comprehensive bilateral free-trade agreement covering goods and services, reopen the border haats and operationalise the busy Benapole-Petrapole trade point round the clock.

A chartered plane carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ran into a turbulent air pocket minutes before landing at Kolkata airport when she was returning from election campaign in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh yesterday evening, Indian media reported today.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

Nearly 1,000 Indians are still stranded in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy, which are among the worst-hit areas during the ongoing Russian invasion.

An Indian TV news anchor’s outburst during a live talk show on Ukraine crisis went viral where he was yelling at the wrong guest the whole time.