Suspected militants in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir ambushed an army vehicle and killed five people, including three soldiers, officials said yesterday, days after gunmen killed seven construction workers in the disputed territory.

The severe cyclonic storm "Dana" swept coastal areas of India's eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal today since making landfall after midnight, toppling trees, snapping power lines and inundating some low-lying areas but no casualties were reported, officials said

The severe cyclonic storm Dana early today slammed into Bhitarkanika and Dhamra coasts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha where authorities evacuated a million people to safety, shut schools, and suspended flight and train operations.

At least 1.1 million people on India’s eastern coast hunkered down in storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone set to hammer the low-lying region early this morning.

Major airports will shut overnight, including key travel hub Kolkata, where heavy rain was already lashing the sprawling megacity

The Wayanad seat was previously held by her brother, Rahul Gandhi

Schools in some parts of India’s eastern state of Odisha were ordered to shut and tourists were asked to vacate the popular beach city of Puri, as authorities braced for a severe cyclonic storm that is expected to hit later this week.

China said today it had reached a "resolution" with India over issues related to their disputed border, after New Delhi said it had struck a deal with Beijing for military patrols along the frontier

Indian commandos shot dead five Maoist rebels in the dense jungles of central India, police said today

Agitating junior doctors of India's West Bengal state tonight withdrew their 17-day-long hunger strike over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, hours after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata

A doctor and six labourers were shot dead in an attack on the site of an under-construction tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district last night, officials said

A day after West Bengal chief minister called for an end to the two-week fast-unto-death by agitating junior medics in Kolkata, the doctors today held a mega rally to press home their 10-point demands over the rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital

No casualties were reported in the blast and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosion

The visit of India’s foreign minister to Pakistan earlier this week was a “good beginning” that could lead to a thaw in relations between the two rivals, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying by Indian media yesterday.

The threat was communicated to the city’s traffic control room via its WhatsApp helpline on Thursday afternoon. Officials reported that the sender issued a direct threat to the actor and insisted on the substantial monetary demand. An investigation is currently underway to trace the source of the message.

In a landmark ruling today, the Supreme Court of India upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the 1955 Citizenship Act, which grants Indian citizenship to certain illegal immigrants in Assam, primarily from Bangladesh

The teenager was summoned for questioning after police tracked him down as the operator of the X account used to send threats

India yesterday signed a deal with the US State Department to buy 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) drones, the South Asian nation’s defence ministry said.

India today expelled six senior Canadian diplomats after announcing its decision to withdraw its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other "targeted" diplomats and officials in Canada

India said yesterday it was withdrawing its envoy to Canada because Ottawa was investigating him and other diplomats as “persons of interest”, after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.