The Indian cabinet has approved the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill that provides for steeper penalties for violating traffic rules including dangerous and drunk driving, driving without license and helmet, over-speeding and overloading.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays homage to all "those greats" who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 and said democracy had prevailed over authoritarianism.

​India rejects a US report on religious freedom, saying it sees no locus standi for a foreign government to pronounce on the state of its citizens' constitutionally protected rights.

Shortly before the first session of the newly-elected 17th Lok Sabha began on the morning of June 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the customary media appearance and underlined that a pro-active opposition is an indispensable component of a vibrant

In a major development, hundreds of human skeletal remains have been found in a forest area behind Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has warned Pakistan of action against it if the country does not improve its counter-terror financing operations in line with an internationally agreed action plan by October.

In the midst of escalating tension between the United States and Iran, India deploys two of its warships in the Gulf region to reassure Indian-flag carrying vessels sailing through the region about security.

At least 44 passengers are killed and 30 others injured when a bus carrying them fell in a gorge in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, officials say.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads mass Yoga demonstration to mark the 5th International Day of Yoga.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind today said infiltrators “pose a major threat” to India’s internal security and said border security will be further strengthened to prevent infiltration.

Om Birla, a two-time lawmaker of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has been elected as the Speaker of the new Lok Sabha.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends greetings to Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the latter’s 49th birthday, wishing him “good health and a long life.”

Two terrorists and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police say.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party effected a top-level organizational change on Monday night appointing former federal Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda as its Working President, a post created for the first time in the party.

Protesting junior doctors in India call off strike after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agrees to nearly all their demands following a one-and-half hour long meeting with the representatives of different medical colleges of the state at Nabanna (secretariat).

Doctors across India are on a massive strike in solidarity with their West Bengal counterparts who have agreed to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the condition that the meeting is held in the open in the presence of media.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads India’s newly-elected lawmakers of the Lok Sabha in taking oath and asked the opposition not to worry about their sharply-dwindled numerical strength in parliament whose first session began here.

At least 44 people have died in a blistering heatwave that hit three Bihar districts, officials said yesterday.

Intense heat wave has resulted in the deaths of 12 people in Bihar’s Gaya of India. Elsewhere in the state, at least 50 people died of heat wave.

In a retaliatory measure, India has imposed a higher customs duty with effect from today on 28 products, including almond, pulses and walnut, imported from the United States almost a year after Washington hiked tariffs on Indian products like steel and aluminium.