India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for questioning in a case related to the 2016 “Panama Papers” global tax leak case.

A man was beaten to death in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after he allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act inside the historic Golden Temple, one of Sikhs’ most revered shrines.

India today successfully tested a new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the eastern state of Odisha.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday said his country would remain closely connected with its Bangladeshi friends to jointly achieve development and prosperity.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday stayed all proceedings before the Madan B Lokur Commission, appointed by the West Bengal government, to inquire into the Pegasus controversy despite the state promising to hold its hand when the apex court was seized of the issue and awaiting report from its technical expert panel headed by Justice RV Raveendran, a former SC judge.

The Indian government has cleared a proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, according to media reports, as women’s rights activists fear the move could lead to a “real disaster”.

A court in India today awarded life sentence to three Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh militants and 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to five other JMB members in a case relating to a bomb blast in Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya in eastern state of Bihar in 2018.

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for not mentioning the name of Indira Gandhi during the official programme on the occasion of Vijay Diwas to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the emergence of independent Bangladesh.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has termed 1971 as Indira Gandhi’s “finest year” and lauded India’s armed forces and the people of Bangladesh for the Liberation War victory that has a distinctive place in the history of the subcontinent.

Group Captain Varun Singh, who was the sole survivor of the Indian Air Force helicopter crash in which India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was killed on December 8, succumbed to his injuries in a military hospital today.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday dropped a passage from its Class ten board exams question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it as “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Two Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died, and 12 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday evening, police said.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today dropped a passage from its class 10 board exam question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked yesterday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.

India’s Punjab state government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the federal government’s decision that extended the Border Security Force's jurisdiction to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a 50km stretch from the international border in Assam, West Bengal and Punjab, as compared to the earlier 15km.

Indian police have recovered a stolen watch customised for star footballer Diego Maradona and arrested a suspect behind the alleged theft in Dubai, officials claimed Saturday.

Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, was today the venue of an emotional trek down the memory lane for five retired officers of the Indian army who took part in the famous Tangail air drop by the army’s 2nd parachute battalion which cut off the retreat of Pakistani troops from the north towards Dhaka during the Liberation War on this day, half a century ago.

India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said yesterday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authorise vaccine boosters.

Amidst an outpour of grief, India today bade farewell to its first chief of defence staff and the country’s senior-most military officer Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika who died along with 11 others in a helicopter crash two days ago.