India will buy 9 million barrels of Iranian oil in November, two industry sources said, indicating that the world's third-biggest oil importer is to continue purchasing crude from the Islamic republic despite US sanctions coming into force on Nov 4.

The scheme will be rolled out early next year in a bid to help congested airports deal with rapidly rising passenger numbers, the ministry of civil aviation says.

Indian police bussed seven Rohingya Muslims to the border to be deported to neighbouring Myanmar for illegal entry, officials and activists say, the first such move against the community.

Justice Ranjan Gogoi was yesterday sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to 63-year-old Justice Gogoi at a brief ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan's Darbar Hall.

The United States has warned India against a planned purchase of S-400 surface-to-air missiles from Russia when President Vladimir Putin's visits New Delhi this week, saying such an acquisition would attract sanctions under US law.

A major fire breaks out in the pharmacy department of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital.

An eight-year-old child was killed and at least nine other people injured yesterday when a homemade bomb went off in a suburb of the Indian city of Kolkata, police said.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has proposed to set up a cow ministry that would replace the existing board meant for promotion of the bovine.

Movie lovers are anticipating a big success for the upcoming Bollywood film ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ after the trailer of the film goes viral just after its release, bagging millions of views.

India's National Investigation Agency filed a charge sheet in a court on Thursday against three suspected militants in connection with bomb attacks at a Bihar Buddhist temple in January.

The Indian Supreme Court yesterday allowed the entry of women of all ages into a famous Hindu temple at Sabarimala in southern state of Kerala where the entry of women of menstrual age was restricted as its presiding deity Lord Ayyappa is considered to be a celibate.

After decriminalizing consensual gay sex between two adults, the Indian Supreme Court rules that adultery is not a crime, scrapping an "archaic" law saying the "husband is not the master of the wife."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is awarded this year’s UN’s highest environmental honour for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledges to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022.

Hours after the Indian Uttar Pradesh Police booked Congress’ social media chief Divya Spandana for sedition for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “thief” in one of her tweets, she goes on to do it again.

Five people are killed as an apartment block collapses in New Delhi, crushing residents beneath mountains of concrete, in the latest building accident to hit India.

Industrialist and Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman Mukesh Ambanihas retains the top position as the richest person in India for the seventh consecutive year, reports NDTV.

Indian media yesterday came down heavily on ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for terming illegal immigrants from Bangladesh “termites” and “vermin” and said it “coarsens discourse and deepens divides” and risks “ruining relations” with the neighbour.

An Indian passenger sparked panic in mid-air when he tried to open a plane door, apparently mistaking it for the toilet, the airline and reports said

Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in parts of north India leads to the death of at least 22 people in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Assam state government yesterday denied that it was interfering with the exercise to update the draft final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which left out four million, and said it will be ensured no “foreigner” is included in it.