West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday urged all Indian opposition parties to unite against ruling BJP, a day before she clashes in Nandigram in a vote battle against one of her former confidante who defected to BJP, which has thrown a serious challenge to her 10 year rule in the crucial Indian state.

India’s election commission today imposed prohibitory orders which bar gathering of five or more persons at a place in Nandigram assembly constituency in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district.

West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress has written to the Indian Election Commission, alleging that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Bangladesh had “violated” the code of conduct for the state assembly elections.

Sensing potential public anger, India’s Manipur government yesterday withdrew an earlier order directing authorities in districts bordering Myanmar to “politely turn away” nationals of the neighbouring country who are trying to enter India.

India saw 62,714 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide Covid-19 tally to 1,19,71,624, while the daily deaths crossed the 300-mark for the first time in 2021.

Voters in India’s Assam and West Bengal cast their ballots yesterday in elections that will indicate how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support is holding up after a year of the coronavirus pandemic and months of protests against his farm reforms.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of violating the Election Commission of India's code of conduct by addressing people of the Matua community at Orakandi in Bangladesh and trying to influence voters in the assembly polls in the state and Assam.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are set to have “substantive discussions” with focus on trade, connectivity and Covid-19 cooperation.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Dhaka on a two-day official visit to take part in the golden jubilee celebration of Bangladesh's independence and Mujib Borsho – birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

India’s technology minister today said video streaming services have to be “responsible and accountable” for their shows and movies, defending rules introduced last month that regulate such content.

Amidst a second wave of Covid-19 cases across the country, India has decided to not ramp up vaccine exports and to focus more on supply for its domestic requirement, official sources said today.

India’s competition watchdog yesterday ordered a probe into a WhatsApp privacy policy update, saying the Facebook Inc-owned messaging service had breached antitrust laws.

India has detected a new “double mutant variant” of the novel coronavirus yesterday, as the pandemic has taken a turn for the worse in many nations with known infections worldwide crossing 124 million and death toll passing 2.7 million.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said BJP will make a “son of the soil” chief minister if voted to power in West Bengal assembly polls,

Authorities in Delhi and Mumbai today banned public celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colour, next week amidst rising cases of Covid-19, our Delhi correspondent reports.

The Indian government has been granted time till April 9 by the Lok Sabha and July 9 by the Rajya Sabha to frame rules for grant of citizenship under the amended citizenship law, parliament was told today.

National President of Assam’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party JP Nadda today released the manifesto for the upcoming assembly elections in the state, promising to work on the “corrected” National Register of Citizens (NRC), protect “genuine” Indian citizens and detect infiltrators.

India reported its most Covid-19 cases and deaths in months yesterday, on the first anniversary of the start of a chaotic nationwide lockdown that left many people jobless and shrank the economy.

The Government of India has gifted 109 ambulances to Bangladesh on the occasion of Bangabandhu's birth centenary.

India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly four months.