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.

Indian farmers, protesting the government’s agriculture sector reform laws, today blocked highways at several places in Punjab and Haryana states. Security was beefed up at all border points of Delhi with thousands of security personnel deployed, following a call for nationwide road blockade agitation.

India has said its relationship with Bangladesh has withstood the test of time and both countries have "charted a unique model for regional cooperation that is quite unparalleled in South Asia."

High speed 4G internet services are being restored across Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said today, more than 18 months after they were cut in the wake of the scrapping of the former state's special status under the Indian constitution.

Wading into a sensitive issue for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US embassy in New Delhi yesterday urged his government to resume talks with farmers angry over agricultural reforms that sparked a months-long protest campaign.

Delhi police today lodged an FIR against teen climate campaigner Greta Thunberg’s tweets supporting the farmers’ protest, reports NDTV. She has been accused of “criminal conspiracy and promoting enmity” through her tweets regarding the farmers protest in India.

The Indian government has directed Twitter to comply with its order to remove content and accounts related to “farmer genocide hashtags” and warned the microblogging platform may face "penal action" for non-compliance of the order, sources said.

India today reacted sharply to foreign celebrities, including pop star Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg, speaking in support of the farmers’ protest against three farm sector reform laws and said “the temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments, especially when resorted to by celebrities and others, is neither accurate nor responsible.”

International pop star Rihanna came out in support of the agitation by Indian farmers and criticised the internet shutdown at the protest site on the outskirts of Delhi.

The Indian government has not taken any decision on preparing a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC), Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the phone where Modi assured him that India would deploy all its resources to find and punish the perpetrators of a blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi last Friday.

Three Indian media bodies have condemned the police action against two journalists who were picked up during the farmers’ protests at Delhi’s Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with police personnel.

India blocked mobile internet services in several areas around New Delhi yesterday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla today said his company has applied for the start of trials of another Covid-19 vaccine, Covovax, which it hopes to launch by June.

India blocked mobile internet services in several areas surrounding New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

Indian farmers began a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in protest against new agricultural laws after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

Clashes erupted yesterday between hundreds of opponents and supporters of a major farmers protest that has disrupted the Indian capital for more than eight weeks.

A minor improvised explosive device blast took place outside the Israeli embassy in the heart of central Delhi this evening, but there were no casualties or injuries, the police said.

India’s opposition Congress lawmaker and writer Shashi Tharoor and six journalists have been booked by police on charges of sedition, among other charges, over the violence during farmers' tractor rally in Delhi on January 26, officials said.

Tourists in Kashmir’s Gulmarg ski resort have a new place to chill out - an igloo cafe that serves hot food and drink on tables made of ice and snow.