Indian authorities have frozen the bank accounts of Amnesty International after a raid on its country office, the human rights watchdog said yesterday, accusing the government of treating rights groups "like criminal enterprises".

Indian police have rounded up more than 2,000 people for stopping women from entering a flashpoint Hindu shrine in defiance of a Supreme Court order, officials said yesterday.

India's main opposition staged nationwide protests yesterday, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of removing the head of the premier investigation agency in order to scuttle a probe into a controversial jet deal.

In the backdrop of snowballing #MeToo movement, the Indian government yesterday constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been conferred with the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for his contribution to international

Government forces killed two rebels during a gunbattle on the outskirts of disputed Kashmir’s main city, sparking violent anti-India protests by residents, police say.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been selected for the Seoul Peace Prize for 2018 for his contribution to fostering international cooperation and global economic growth.

India and China on Monday signed a bilateral pact on security cooperation as New Delhi asked Beijing not to give shelter to fugitive ULFA insurgent group leader Paresh Barua and stop thwarting efforts to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed group leader Maulana Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

India's main opposition Congress party has said it would not name its leader Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate of an alliance seeking to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi in next year's general election.

Protesters have attempted to stall trains across Assam during a general strike of indigenous groups enforced in protest against the Indian government’s Bill that aims at giving citizenship to “persecuted” Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Indian police said "leftover explosives" were responsible for a blast in Kashmir that killed at least six civilians Sunday as they protested against government forces shooting dead three alleged militants. Protesters had surged the site of a shootout in southern Kulgam town, chanting slogans against Indian rule and hurling rocks at troops.

In a veiled attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that to keep "one family" above the rest, efforts were made to forget the contributions leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Subhash Chandra Bose made in the Independence struggle.

Around 60 people die when a train ploughs into a crowd of revellers watching a firework display in India, officials says.

China has alerted India about a flash flood threat in the Brahmaputra River originating in Tibet following a landslide that led to the formation of an artificial lake in its territory.

Fox Star Studios yesterday sacked a Bollywood director working on a Hindi-language remake of hit US movie "The Fault In Our Stars" after he was accused of sexual harassment by two women.

A senior leader of India's ruling party warned yesterday that protesters in the southern state of Kerala would take the law into their hands if officials attempted to let women enter a hill temple at the centre of a raging controversy.

NDTV has been sued for Rs 10,000 crores by Anil Ambani's Reliance Group in a court in Ahmedabad for its reportage on the Rafale fighter jet deal.

At least 50 people are killed today after a train plowed into revellers gathered to watch a Hindu festival in India's northern Amritsar city, police saya

Fox Star Studios sacks a Bollywood director working on a Hindi-language remake of hit US movie "The Fault In Our Stars" after he is accused of sexual harassment by two women.

Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers, threw stones at buses and ordered a 12-hour strike yesterday to successfully bar women from one of India's holiest temples for a second day.