West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of trying to "saffronize” the school education after the Uttar Pradesh government's move to omit the works of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and India’s legendary scholar Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan from the syllabus for class 10 and 12.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today said that all gaps in the country’s border fencing will be filled by next year to completely stop infiltration and other anti-national activities.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today noted with concern the fast-rising number of Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and many other countries and said “this should alert us and the world.”

One more suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative was arrested from Barasat near Kolkata, Indian police said today.

When Indian parliament begins its monsoon session on July 19, lawmakers will be protected against Covid-19 by the latest technology to mitigate airborne transmission of the virus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday against overcrowding at tourist sites after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) warned that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is “inevitable” and “imminent” and alerted the state governments against allowing potential “super-spreader” events. 

More than 50 people were killed in lightning strikes across several states in India, authorities said Monday, including 11 people at a historic fort. 

An al-Qaeda offshoot in Kashmir planned attacks in northern India ahead of the country’s Independence Day, police claimed after arresting two men with alleged links to the group on Sunday.

Over 50 people, including children, were killed by lightning in northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday, police said today.

Three suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists were arrested from Kolkata's Haridebpur locality today, said the police.

Beating the merciless heat is hard in the Indian desert city of Sri Ganganagar, a reality facing millions across the vast country as the climate changes in the coming decades. 

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) will establish “Bangabandhu Chair” at the University of Delhi to honour the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh and the 50th anniversary of the country’s Liberation War and Indo-Bangla diplomatic relations.

Eight suspected rebels and two Indian soldiers have been killed in a series of counterinsurgency operations in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. 

Authorities in India’s southern Kerala region have issued a statewide alert after a case of the Zika virus was confirmed, officials said yesterday.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb will send its state fruit ‘queen pineapple’ to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The move comes just days after Bangladesh Prime Minister sent mangoes to the Tripura Chief Minister.

India has asked the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to be “watchful that its platform is not subverted by vested interests for comments on India’s internal affairs or for anti-India propaganda”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter thanking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the sweet Haribhanga mangoes, saying she was overwhelmed by the gifts.

A legend of Indian cinema, he was one of those who helped turn their film industry into one of the biggest in the world.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday carried out a major expansion and reshuffle of his council of ministers inducting 43 people, including 36 new faces, taking its total strength to 77. 

The vast consumer market of India offers enormous opportunities for Bangladesh’s quality food products, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami, highlighting the duty-free, quota-free market access available to Bangladesh products under SAFTA since 2011.