Floods in Assam kill at least 41
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24 July 2026, 00:00 AM India
Protesters call for rallies across India today
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24 July 2026, 00:00 AM India
Tear gas, baton charges mark fresh escalation in NEET protests
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23 July 2026, 15:15 PM India
Protest spreads in India
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23 July 2026, 00:00 AM India
Delhi Police file 10 FIRs over CJP protest violence; Rahul released
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22 July 2026, 11:28 AM India
Opposition turns up heat on Modi
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22 July 2026, 00:00 AM India

3 photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service.
5 May 2020, 12:03 PM

India to take back its citizens stranded in Bangladesh by air

India will take back its nationals, who are stranded in Bangladesh during the ongoing shutdown enforced due to the coronavirus pandemic, by air.
5 May 2020, 11:06 AM

Migrant workers, police clash in Gujarat as India eases lockdown

Hundreds of migrant workers in India’s Gujarat looking to return home amid the nationwide Covid-19-enforced lockdown clash with police near a village in Surat district.
4 May 2020, 12:52 PM

India lodges protest over Pakistan SC’s order on ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’

India has conveyed its strong protest to Pakistan’s efforts to bring “material change” in Pakistan-occupied territories and asked Islamabad to vacate them.
4 May 2020, 07:40 AM

5 Indian security personnel killed in Jammu-Kashmir encounter

Five Indian security personnel, including a colonel and a major, were killed in an encounter at a village in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, which also saw the elimination of two terrorists, officials said today.
3 May 2020, 08:02 AM

Lockdown brings to light priceless Satyajit memorabilia

The pan-India lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic has led to coming to light of some priceless memorabilia associated with master director Satyajit Ray at the loft of his house on Bishop Lefroy Road in south Kolkata.
2 May 2020, 09:29 AM

India’s armed forces to conduct fly-pasts, shower petals on hospitals treating Covid-19 patients

India's defence forces will conduct fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft and shower petals from helicopters on hospitals treating coronavirus patients tomorrow in a show of gratitude to doctors, medical staff and other frontline health workers battling the pandemic.
2 May 2020, 05:24 AM

India extends nationwide lockdown for 2 more weeks

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.
1 May 2020, 14:26 PM

Return by road of Bangladeshis stranded in India being discussed

The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.
1 May 2020, 09:16 AM

New nanomedicine could cure Covid-19: Indian scientists

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.
1 May 2020, 05:25 AM

Coronavirus: India’s lockdown likely to extend beyond May 3

The Indian government has hinted that the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 would be extended beyond May 3, but with "considerable relaxations" for people and services in many districts.
30 April 2020, 05:59 AM

New kit can detect Covid-19 in 10 mins: Indian researchers

An Indian government-run institute for medical sciences and technology claims to have developed a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 which can detect the contagion in 10 minutes.
30 April 2020, 05:11 AM

'Would like to be remembered with a smile, not tears'

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer, his brother Randhir Kapoor says.
30 April 2020, 04:48 AM

Stranded people will be allowed to move in locked down Indian states

Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people stuck in different parts of India, were allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions as of today.
29 April 2020, 15:30 PM

Internationally acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan dies

Irrfan Khan, one of the most talented Indian actors who essayed a wide variety of roles including in Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi’s “Doob”, dies in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 54.
29 April 2020, 06:50 AM

India claims to be self-reliant in Covid-19 rapid tests by May

India will be self-reliant in producing indigenous rapid tests and diagnostic kits for Covid-19 by May-end, making it possible to conduct one lakh tests a day, said the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.
29 April 2020, 05:18 AM

Biman, US-Bangla to bring back 1,000 Bangladeshis from India

National airliner Biman Bangladesh Airlines and private air operator US-Bangla Airlines will operate six special flights from India to bring back around 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis from the neighbouring country.
27 April 2020, 10:44 AM

Coronavirus: lockdown in India has yielded positive results, says Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.
27 April 2020, 10:18 AM

Man swimming across river to India ‘mentally challenged’: union chairman, BGB

The man, who entered India’s Assam by swimming across river, did not go there “for Covid-19 treatment”, and he is “mentally challenged”, says Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official, local council representatives and doctors.
27 April 2020, 09:55 AM

Woman gang raped after quarantined alone at school in India: police

An Indian woman has been allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she was quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official says.
26 April 2020, 16:41 PM