India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit beginning on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said after Washington said he planned to raise New Delhi's human rights record.

India has no plan to print new banknotes to tide over the economic fallout triggered by Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the parliament today.

Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rode a tractor to the parliament today -- protesting the three contentious farm laws.

Asking for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Pegasus controversy, India’s senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the government should either go for the investigation or appoint a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to take the issue further.

Nine people were killed by a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradeshin yesterday as boulders fell and hit the vehicle they were travelling in, news agency ANI reported.

Parts of India’s west coast have received up to 594 mm (23 inches) of rain, forcing authorities to move people out of vulnerable areas as they released water from dams about to overflow. The hill station of Mahabaleshwar recorded its highest ever rainfall - 60 cm in 24 hours.

Indian income tax authorities tonight said it has found tax “evasion” of Rs 700 crore over six years by the Dainik Bhaskar business group whose leading Hindi newspaper and TV channel were critical of the government’s Covid handling.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been named the new chairperson of the parliamentary party of Trinamool Congress in a move aimed at giving her a higher national profile ahead of next parliamentary elections in 2024. 

Indian tax authorities have raided a prominent newspaper and a TV channel that have been critical of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, triggering accusations of intimidation. 

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s main political rival Rahul Gandhi yesterday demanded an inquiry into the Pegasus spyware scandal, accusing the government of “treason”, according to an AFP report.

At least 67 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said on Friday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds of villages.

A Trinamool Congress member of the Rajya Sabha, Shantanu Sen, was today suspended for the remaining period of the month-long monsoon session.

India has reported the first human death due to Avian influenza as an 11-year-old boy succumbed to the virus H5N1 in Gurugram, a satellite city of Delhi, in Haryana state.

If ‘Khela Hobe’ slogan by Trinamul Congress set the ball rolling for the 2021 Bengal assembly polls, then this time it will set the pitch for 2024 parliamentary elections to oust the BJP from Centre, declared the Bengal chief minister and Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee as she announced that the state will observe ‘Khela Hobe Diwas’ on August 16.

To quell the growing debate surrounding Indian parliament’s youngest cabinet member Nisith Kumar Pramanik’s citizenship, a visit was paid to his ancestral home in Gaibandha where his family alleviated concerns and reiterated that he is in fact Indian.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said since coronavirus vaccines are injected in the arms, those who take it become “Baahubali”.

At least 23 people were killed after several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India’s financial capital Mumbai, authorities said yesterday.

Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday said there is no ban on the sacrifice of animals during the upcoming Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, a day after the government asked law enforcers to stop the sacrifice of cows, calves, camels and other animals.

Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday said there is no ban on the sacrifice of animals during the upcoming Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, a day after the government asked law enforcers to stop the sacrifice of cows, calves, camels and other animals.

An Indian lawmaker of the main opposition Congress has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to probe allegations that Minister of State for Home in the federal government Nisith Pramanik, from West Bengal, is a Bangladeshi national.