Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday said time has come for all Indian opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and “plan systematically” and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

Spiritual head of the Ajmer dargah in India, Syed Jainul Abedin, today said that Taliban is “maligning” Islam through terror activities in the name of “sharia”.

Fourteen people were arrested in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam for alleged social media posts supporting Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan, police said today.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said time has come for all opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and "plan systematically" and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

After remaining closed for night viewing for more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra will reopen tomorrow for visitors who want to enjoy the magic of the white marble monument soaked in moonlight, officials said today.

A Delhi court today discharged senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death at a hotel in New Delhi.

An Indian air force plane has evacuated more than 170 people from Kabul, including India’s ambassador to Afghanistan, a government official says, as diplomats and civilians scramble to leave the country.

The Indian government yesterday told the Supreme Court that there is “nothing to hide” in the Pegasus snooping allegations and it will constitute a committee of eminent experts to examine all aspects.

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, slammed Twitter yesterday for blocking a tweet over the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, saying the platform was playing partisan politics.

At least 2,000 people were evacuated yesterday after a massive landslide in India’s ecologically fragile Himalayan north blocked a major river, officials said. 

An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to fire fully yesterday, the state-run space agency said, in a setback for the country’s space programme,

India’s opposition leaders yesterday held a protest march towards Vijay Chowk from Parliament against an abrupt end to the monsoon session and a repeal of the Centre’s three farm laws.

A northeastern Indian state that has for years been a big transit point for illicit drugs originating in neighbouring Myanmar has launched a massive crackdown on the trade, seizing record amounts and arresting nearly 2,000 people since May.

Rescuers were working to clear tonnes of rocks and mud Wednesday after a landslide buried about 60 people in India’s Himalayan north, killing at least 10.

All Indian Visa Application Centres (VACs) in Bangladesh  resume operations today as the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have been eased.

The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the “highest in police stations”, Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function on Sunday, expressing concern about custodial torture, reports NDTV online.

More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of “ye azadi jhoota hai,”  the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country’s independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag in all its party offices.

More than seven decades after the Indian communists gave the slogan of “ye azadi jhoota hai”, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to mark the country’s independence day with fanfare on August 15 and will hoist the national flag at all its party offices.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested five people for allegedly posting defamatory content against judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court

The Congress yesterday said its leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account had been “temporarily locked” after the social media platform countered the