West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today filed her nomination from the high-profile Nandigram assembly constituency in East Midnapore district where she will be pitted against her former protege and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.

India today summoned the British High Commissioner in New Delhi to express its “strong opposition” to the “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” on agricultural reform laws which has sparked farmers’ protests in the country.

Over the past few years, Narendra Modi's government has racked up pressure on global tech companies, imposing stringent restrictions on the conduct of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in India.

Thousands of women joined protests by farmers on the outskirts of Delhi on Monday to mark International Women’s Day, demanding the scrapping of new laws that open up agriculture produce markets to private buyers.

Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process has begun to deport them back to Myanmar, two officials said on Sunday.

Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty joined India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today and shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a mega rally in Kolkata ahead of the coming assembly elections in the state beginning later this month.

Indian farmers began gathering on Saturday to block a six-lane expressway outside New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against deregulation of agriculture markets, to add pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced she will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state from Nandigram constituency.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.

The Taj Mahal in Agra was briefly shut and tourists were evacuated his morning after Uttar Pradesh Police received a call about a bomb at the iconic monument. The call was made to the police helpline, NDTV reports.

India today allowed all private hospitals with adequate facilities to serve as Covid-19 vaccination centres as its expanded inoculation drive entered the second day.

Experts say that the relatively low hospitalisation and fatality rates in India suggest the coronavirus pandemic is approaching its next phase - largely manageable local outbreaks.

India yesterday announced a ceiling price Rs 250 per dose of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by private hospitals as the country aims to exponentially expand the ambit of its inoculation drive from tomorrow.

The authorities in India have announced to expand the country’s inoculation drive against Covid-19 to private hospitals and also allowing people aged above 60 years and those over 45 with comorbidities from March 1.

India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said yesterday.

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an association of the country’s biggest newspapers, has urged global search engine Google to hike the publisher’s share of its advertisement revenue to 85 percent for carrying their content online, joining an intensifying international face-off with the media houses.

An abandoned vehicle containing explosives was found this evening near India’s richest industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in Mumbai, Maharashtra state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said.

The passenger train between New Jalpaiguri (NJP) in India’s West Bengal state and Dhaka will start on March 26, as part of Bangladesh's independence golden jubilee celebrations.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said Bangladesh can export edible oil to India with 20 percent value addition to the product.

The Indian Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria arrived in Dhaka this afternoon on a three-day visit to Bangladesh.