India's toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that year, according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health on Thursday.

China, the US, the European Union and India have been ranked as the world's top four emitters respectively of carbon dioxide accounting for 58 percent of global emissions in 2017, according to a study.

India says it considers the coming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh as an “internal affair” of Bangladesh and it was inappropriate to make any comment on that.

Two men accused of trying to molest a 20-year-old woman in northern India set her on fire two days after she lodged a complaint with police, authorities and her family say.

While the audience shared the intensity with which many of his contemporaries and admirers expressed their admiration for the music legend Salil Chowdhury on his 93rd birth anniversary, there was a depressing footnote when his daughter, Antara, confessed that it had become quite difficult to arrange a celebration even on a small scale.

Tens of thousands of farmers and agricultural workers marched towards the Indian parliament yesterday, demanding debt waivers and higher crop prices, putting pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of 2019 elections.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told him about plans to scale up investments in India's tech, farm and energy sectors, an Indian official and the Saudi news agency (SPA) said yesterday.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas land in Jodhpur as excitement over their impending nuptials, dubbed India's "wedding of the year", reached fever pitch.

Government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir killed a top commander of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group Wednesday during a fierce firefight, police said, triggering clashes with protestors.

Millions of Indians voted yesterday in a state election seen as a key duel between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his main rival before the whole country goes to the polls in 2019.

Indian troops killed six separatist militants in a gunbattle in the disputed region of Kashmir yesterday, the army said, taking the death toll for the year to the highest in nearly a decade.

An Indian baby who was dropped onto railway tracks moments before a train passed through the station has escaped unscathed.

Indian police Wednesday made an arrest over a grenade attack last week in northern Punjab state that killed three worshippers as it blamed arch-rival Pakistan for what it called "an act of terrorism".

India's government has dissolved the Kashmir state assembly in a sudden move that could lead to fresh elections and further turmoil in the disputed region also claimed by Pakistan.

Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan is hailed as a star of India's farmers after clearing loans worth more than 40 million rupees ($560,000) as an agricultural crisis forces many rural workers into extreme poverty.

An Indian soldier and four terrorists are killed today in an encounter between ultras and security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir state in India, officials say.

India’s first hospital for elephants, armed with facilities such as wireless digital X-Ray, thermal imaging, ultrasonography, tranquilization devices and quarantine facilities, not only comes as a respite to the elephants but is also attracting local and foreign tourists.

At least three people are killed and ten others wounded in a suspected grenade attack on a religious gathering in northern Indian state of Punjab.

A powerful cyclone in southern India has killed at least 33 people, caused massive damage to homes and roads and drove tens of thousands of people into relief camps, officials say.

Retired Indian army officer Brig Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, who was a major in the Indian Army in 1971, dies of cancer.