In a retaliatory move, India has decided to impose a mandatory 10-day home quarantine for all British nationals, irrespective of vaccination status, arriving in the country from October 4.

By-polls for Bhabanipur, Jangipur, Samserganj constituencies in West Bengal took place yesterday.

The stage is set for today’s assembly by-polls in south Kolkata’s high-profile Bhabanipur constituency where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is seeking the people’s mandate to enter the state legislature in order to retain her post.

A man was administered an anti-rabies shot instead of Covid-19 vaccine at a medical centre in a slum area under Thane district of the Indian state Maharashtra. A doctor and a nurse were suspended following the incident, a civic official said.

The Bhabanipur bypoll, where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is Trinamool candidate, won’t be cancelled, the Calcutta High Court ruled yesterday, dismissing a plea against the bypoll. The court added that the bypoll will be held as planned own Thursday.

The Delhi riots of 2020 were planned and calculated to cause disruptions and were not triggered by any incident, the High Court said while refusing bail to one of the accused in the case yesterday.

India has rolled out its first-ever national helpline for the elderly to help them resolve various mental, emotional, financial, legal, and physical challenges.

The Madras High Court today denied bail to a group of foreign nationals, including Bangladeshis, who were arrested for various reasons including illegal stay in India.

Farmers from different parts of India, especially Punjab, Haryana, and the western part of Uttar Pradesh, blocked national highways and railroads today as part of “Bharat Bandh,” protesting the three controversial farm laws passed by parliament which they fear would favour big corporations.

A cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India’s east coast late yesterday, as tens of thousands of people in three states were evacuated to shelters.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns home today from a three-day official visit to the United States, is bringing back 157 artefacts and antiquities which were handed over to him in the country.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said the Indian government did not allow her in-person participation at a global peace meet in Rome on October 6 “out of jealousy.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn’t directly mention Pakistan or China in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, but the targets of his address were clear.

Feminist activist, author and a women’s rights activist in India, Kamla Bhasin, passed away this morning at the age of 75.

An Indian salon has been ordered to pay more than $271,000 in damages to a model for a botched haircut which she claimed caused a “severe mental breakdown”.

Gunmen dressed as lawyers shot dead a notorious Indian gangster inside a Delhi courtroom yesterday before police killed the two assailants, investigators said.

Three people were killed in a shootout at a court in north Delhi's Rohini locality today, police said.

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An Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months.

An Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months.