IAF’s aircraft with 13 people on board missing

An AN-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) with 13 people on board has lost contact with ground agencies around 35 minutes after taking off from Jorhat in Assam, official sources say.
3 June 2019, 11:47 AM

Indian actress Ruma Guha Thakurta passes away

Indian veteran actress and singer Ruma Guha Thakurta dies at the age of 84. Ruma Guha, former wife of legendary singer Kishore Kumar, breathed her last at her Baliganj residence in Kolkata around 7:30am.
3 June 2019, 07:05 AM

India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

Temperatures pass 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggers warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.
2 June 2019, 04:33 AM

Sonia Gandhi reelected Congress parliamentary party leader

United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was re-elected the leader of the Congress parliamentary party.
1 June 2019, 06:23 AM

Indian beauty pageant draws flak for unfair portrayal of women

Organisers of a leading Indian beauty pageant come under fire for selecting only fair-skinned women, with human rights campaigners saying the contest highlighted the nation's failure to respect women from all walks of life.
1 June 2019, 06:13 AM

Modi announces expansion of income scheme for farmers

Implementing its three key parliamentary election promises a day after assumption of power, the new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced expansion of an income scheme for farmers and a new pension scheme for agriculturists, small traders and self-employed persons.
1 June 2019, 06:03 AM

Trump to end trade privileges for India on June 5

US President Donald Trump has said that the United States would end its preferential trade treatment for India on June 5.
1 June 2019, 05:43 AM

Modi to undertake visit to Bangladesh; dates to be fixed later

In his second term as Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will undertake a visit to Bangladesh and dates for it would be fixed through diplomatic channels.
1 June 2019, 05:06 AM

Modi to face foreign pressures

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a second term in office after responding to a suicide attack on Indian paramilitary forces in troubled Kashmir with an airstrike inside Pakistan, allowing him to turn voters’ attention away from the country’s highest unemployment rate in decades.
31 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Full list of Modi cabinet members

The Cabinet portfolios are announced, a day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
31 May 2019, 10:08 AM

6 women ministers in Modi govt

There are six women in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government, including actress-turned-politician Smriti Irani who defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in recent parliamentary elections.
31 May 2019, 09:38 AM

Modi’s Cabinet: Amit Shah gets Home Ministry, Defence goes to Rajnath Singh

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is appointed India’s new Home Minister as Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocates portfolios a day after being sworn in for a second straight term as the head of government.
31 May 2019, 08:41 AM

India to see 'big-bang' reforms in Modi's second term

In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term, a slew of 'big-bang' economic reforms that should please foreign investors are likely to be pursued, according to a top official at the government's main think tank.
31 May 2019, 08:41 AM

Mamata fumes over ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is thrown into a fit of fury by a group of men chanting “Jai Shri Ram” slogan as her motorcade passes through Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas district.
31 May 2019, 06:38 AM

Trump decision to end India’s preferential trade status ‘done deal’, says US official

A US decision to evict India from a key trade pact is a “done deal,” an official says, despite Washington’s desire for close relations with re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
31 May 2019, 06:35 AM

Modi's first cabinet meet today

The first meeting of the new Union Cabinet headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Lok Sabha elections will take place in Delhi today.
31 May 2019, 05:47 AM

Where does Congress go from here?

A few weeks before the campaigning for the Indian parliamentary polls ended, two key leaders of the Congress confided that the party should remain out of power for another 10 years in order to revive itself organisationally. One of them was from Rajasthan who occupies a key post in the party’s government there and the other one was from Uttar Pradesh who was a former cabinet minister in Manmohan Singh’s government. Obviously, the two leaders did not want to go on record as having said this. But their remark reflected the present condition within the Congress.
30 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Modi sworn in as India PM

Narendra Modi, who powered the Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, is sworn in as Prime Minister for a second straight five-year term.
30 May 2019, 13:51 PM

BJP Chief Amit Shah to be part of Narendra Modi’s cabinet

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is all set to be inducted into the cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi who will be sworn in for a second straight term at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
30 May 2019, 13:42 PM

Cabinet calls: Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman among top names

All eyes are on the Cabinet that will take oath with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in India.
30 May 2019, 10:02 AM