Fourteen people, including eight women and a child, were killed and four others injured as a minibus collided with a lorry in Kurnool district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh early today, police said.

Jammu and Kashmir will get back the state status at “an appropriate time,” Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab with tremors and aftershocks in several parts of northwest India.

India has won plaudits for gifting and selling Covid-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.

At least 15 workers were killed and more than 30 injured as an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said.

India will start granting citizenship to refugees under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) after the Covid-19 vaccination process ends, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.

A special court in Kolkata sentenced Kausar alias "Boma Mizan", a leader of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, to 29 years’ imprisonment in a case filed over explosion at a house in West Bengal's Burdwan district in October 2014.

Indian rescuers today penetrated deeper through tonnes of rocks and slush to reach 35 power project workers trapped inside a tunnel as the toll in the glacial burst and flash flood in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 32.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today rejected the claim by opposition Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during his visit to Visva Bharati in Bolpur last month.

Johnson & Johnson is interested in manufacturing its COVID-19 vaccine in India, a government official told a news conference on Tuesday.

Indian authorities should investigate and prosecute newly alleged abuses by its Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border, said Human Rights Watch in a statement today.

Police in the Indian capital arrested a man on Tuesday accused of leading a group of farmers who clashed with police and stormed the historic Red Fort last month during the worst day of violence in months of protests against agriculture reforms.

India’s Supreme Court today stayed arrest of opposition Congress Party lawmaker Shashi Tharoor and six journalists. The court order was in connection with FIRs lodged against them for their alleged “misleading” tweets regarding farmers’ tractor rally violence in New Delhi on Republic Day.

The death count in the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 28 today with the recovery of two more bodies from Chamoli district, reports our New Delhi correspondent quoting officials of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a fervent appeal to protesting farmers to end their agitation against the three new farm laws, renewing an offer of talks to resolve their concerns.

Eighteen people were confirmed dead on Monday and at least 200 others were missing after a devastating flash flood in India thought to have been caused by a chunk of glacier breaking off.

More than 125 people were missing in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam yesterday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream.

About 150 labourers working in a power project were reported to have gone missing after a glacier broke and crashed into a dam in India’s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district today.

Twitter Inc’s refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.

Twitter Inc's refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.