India’s Covid-19 death toll today crossed the grim milestone of five lakh with the addition of 1,072 fresh fatalities,

India today said a consistent decline in daily active Covid-19 cases and daily positivity rate indicate the spread of the infection has gone down, as the country’s education ministry proposed reopening of schools with strict adherence to updated guidelines.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was re-elected Chairperson of Trinamool Congress party and urged all regional parties to put up a

Indian officials have held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described as fake news on their platforms, sources told Reuters, the government’s latest altercation with Big Tech.

A Mumbai court today summoned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and directed her to appear before it on March 2 in a case filed alleging that she showed disrespect to the national anthem during her visit to the city, PTI reported.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was re-elected chairperson of Trinamool Congress party today and urged all regional parties to put up a united fight against the BJP in the 2024 general elections.

India today announced Rs 300 crore annual budgetary financial assistance to Bangladesh in the coming 2022-23 (April-March) financial year, up from Rs 200 crore in the outgoing fiscal 2021-22.

India will roll out e-passports with embedded chip in 2022-23 financial year (April-March) to enhance convenience for citizens, country's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today.

A student of a girl's pre-university college in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has moved the state High Court with a plea to allow the right to wear hijab inside the classroom.

Weekly Covid-19 cases in India fell for the first time in the third wave of the pandemic while deaths from the virus continued to rise, registering a growth of 41% against the previous week’s toll.

Indian opposition parties said yesterday they will move parliamentary motions accusing the government of providing misleading information around the use of technology from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.

Indian troops yesterday killed five militants, including a top commander from the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group, in stepped-up anti-militancy operations in Kashmir, police said.

Bhutan’s success in avoiding coronavirus is almost unrivalled but a rare patient death -- just the kingdom’s fourth -- shows more work was needed to fight the pandemic there, its leader says.

India’s capital yesterday announced the end of a weekend curfew and eased other stringent coronavirus restrictions yesterday, with government data suggesting the country’s recent Omicron variant outbreak had slowed.

Former chief minister and Marxist veteran Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and versatile actor Victor Banerjee were among six persons from West Bengal who got this year’s Padma awards announced by the Indian government.

Thousands of youngsters in India have burned down empty train coaches and blocked rail traffic this week in protest against what they call irregularities in recruitment by the mammoth railways department, one of the world's largest employers.

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tonight refused to accept the Indian government’s third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan this year, sparking a political row.

Author Taslima Nasreen said her recent tweets flaying surrogacy as exploitative of poor women, who lend their wombs, was not designed as an attack on Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas.

Omicron, the highly-transmissible Covid-19 strain driving the ongoing third wave of the pandemic across India, is in “community transmission stage” in the country, said a report released yesterday by a consortium of labs of the Indian government. 

As India celebrates the 125th birth anniversary of iconic freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, here’s a look at some of his descendants: