Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has asks his new Indian counterpart S Jaishankar to expedite initiatives to resolve the Teesta issue and sought active supports over the Rohingya crisis in their maiden talks in Tajikistan, says a foreign office statement here.

Terming the border killings “unfortunate deaths”, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Rajni Kant Mishra today said such incidents have increased this year.

Cyclone Vayu will change its path again and is likely to hit Gujarat’s Kutch on June 17-18, a top official of the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences has said.

Maoists shot dead five policemen and took away their firearms in an ambush in the eastern state of Jharkhand in India on Friday, officials said.

A leading Indian doctors’ association called for a nationwide strike on Monday, stepping up protests by medical staff demanding better security at hospitals after an attack on doctors in Kolkata.

Nearly 300 doctors resigns from government hospitals in India’s West Bengal as their protest against an attack on a colleague earlier this week in Kolkata escalates.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping that there was no question of India resuming dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad created an atmosphere free of terrorism in the region.

Cyclone Vayu which had intensified into a “very severe” cyclonic storm has changed its course slightly and will most likely not cross the Gujarat coast, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informs.

A heatwave gripping India has killed 36 people with the poorest workers bearing the brunt, national disaster management officials said yesterday, warning that the record temperatures were impacting more states than in previous years.

India evacuated hundreds of thousands of people to shelters along the coast in its western state of Gujarat as a cyclone gathering intensity over the Arabian Sea was expected to hit land today.

India has unveiled a spacecraft which is expected to take off for the moon next month, making the country only the fourth to achieve the feat.

At least 31 children have died in northern India in the last 10 days from a deadly brain disease believed linked to a toxic substance found in litchi fruit, health officials say.

India announces that the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi would not fly over Pakistan on its way to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit starting tomorrow.

An estimated three lakh people are set to be pulled back to safer places as very severe cyclone 'Vayu' today headed towards Gujarat on the coast of Arabian Sea and strike it tomorrow.

Centred nearly 340km south of Veraval in Gujarat on the East Central Arabian Sea, cyclonic storm ‘Vayu’ has intensified into a “very severe” storm and is most likely to make a landfall on the state’s coast between Porbandar and Mahuva around Veraval and Diu region with a wind speed 110-120kmph gusting to 135kmph during the early morning of June 13.

A journalist jailed for making derogatory comments on social media against a chief minister with the ruling-right wing party was ordered released by India’s Supreme Court yesterday.

The wreckage of an Indian Air Force transport aircraft, which went missing eight days ago with 13 people on board, is found in Arunachal Pradesh, official sources said.

India’s Supreme Court grants bail to journalist Prashant Kanojia who was arrested for allegedly making objectionable comments against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on social media.

The Twitter account of veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has been hacked allegedly by allegedly by a pro-Pakistan hacker group.

Pakistan has decided in principle to let Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek where he has to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 13-14.