A large chunk of Covid-19 cases in Indian metro areas reported in the last few days are of the Omicron variant, a top official said yesterday, adding that the country is “clearly in the third wave” of the pandemic.

On January 1, Quratulain Rehbar, a journalist from Indian-administered Kashmir, woke up to see herself listed for an “online auction”. Her photograph was sourced without her permission and uploaded on an app for “sale”. She was not alone.

The Indian government has asked cyber security and police in Delhi and Mumbai to investigate complaints that a website had hosted doctored and “lewd” pictures and objectionable comments “aimed at insulting Muslim women”.

West Bengal yesterday announced a slew of Covid-19 restrictions, including closure of schools and colleges and imposing a night curfew, as India reported more than 27,000 new cases, with infections sharply rising for a fifth consecutive day.

The Air Force’s inquiry into the chopper crash that killed CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 armed forces personnel is almost complete and will be submitted soon, sources told NDTV yesterday.

Twelve people were crushed to death in a stampede at an Indian religious shrine in the early hours of yesterday as tens of thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers, officials said.

At least 12 people were killed and 14 injured in a stampede caused by a surge of devotees on the New Year's Day at a famous hill-top Hindu shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian media reported today.

India hit out at China for giving “invented” names to several places in a disputed Himalayan region on their border as Beijing looks to assert sovereignty over the territory.

India’s tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the highest toll since it began compiling data a decade ago. The

The Indian government yesterday extended a special law giving armed forces sweeping powers in the north-eastern state of Nagaland, days after a botched army ambush killed 14 people.

The large brass statue of Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, which was installed at a park in Calangute village on the beach of the Arabian Sea in Goa has triggered a controversy over his Portuguese linkage in a state which was once a colony of Portugal.

India has moved to cut off foreign funding to a charity founded by Mother Teresa, a decision critics described as further evidence of harassment

An Indian court urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to suspend political rallies and election campaigns in poll-bound states amid the rising number of Omicron cases, a variant of Covid-19.

Two people were killed and two others injured after a powerful explosion ripped through an Indian court building yesterday, police said. Footage

India has officially reached out to Myanmar for the first time since the February 1 military coup to prescribe its military ruler to return to democracy and end all violence at the earliest.

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and 3,117 of them were granted the citizenship, India’s Junior Minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha yesterday.

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim persons from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and of them, 3,117 were granted citizenship, India’s junior minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha today.

A government school in India’s Kerala has given birth to a row for allowing its female students to wear trousers. The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in the town of Balussery has recently decided to let its students wear unisex uniforms -- shirt and pant, reports BBC.

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) yesterday chalked up a landslide victory in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections,

In a major boost to the country’s air defence capabilities, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is deploying the first squadron of the Russia-made S-400 air