Nationwide protests against record high petrol and diesel prices shut down businesses, government offices and schools in many parts of India yesterday, and in some places protesters blocked trains and roads and vandalised vehicles.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has planned to import 9000 MW electricity from neighbouring countries by 2041 to maintain the country's high economic growth.

Have you ever heard of a trial in a criminal case being conducted through instant messaging app WhatsApp? Bizzare but true.

From Xi’s China to Duterte’s Philippines, Asian economies have risen as the world’s best countries in terms of GDP.

Legendary actor Dilip Kumar, who was admitted to Lilavati hospital here due to the chest infection, has been diagnosed with mild pneumonia, his wife Saira Banu says.

India's top court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex yesterday, in a landmark judgement that sparked celebrations across India and elsewhere in South Asia, where activists hope to push for similar reform.

Top Indian and US officials yesterday touted deepening ties that will see greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries -- and will likely result in India buying more American arms.

The Times of India prepares the following timeline of events which led to this historic verdict in which the Indian Supreme Court rules that consensual adult gay sex is not a crime saying sexual orientation is natural and people have no control on it.

A bridge collapsed yesterday in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, killing one and injuring 19, authorities said, as rescue workers sifted through the debris checking for other casualties.

An Indian court yesterday convicted two members of a banned Islamist militant group over bomb blasts in August 2007 in Hyderabad that killed 44 people.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG aircraft crashes near Jodhpur in Rajasthan on Tuesday during a routine mission, defence spokesperson Colonel Sombit Ghosh says.

Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a small child to India where he has lived as a refugee ever since.

Beef exports of the US accounted for 12.9 per cent of total production in 2017. Although India has banned the slaughtering of cows and consumption of beef in many parts of the country, it is among the top exporters of beef in the world.

The Indian rupee plunges to a new low by getting past the 71 mark against a US dollar.

“Momo Challenge”, a new online game similar to the notorious “Blue Whale game”, makes authorities concerned of West Bengal and the Indian IT and Electronics Ministry sit up after a string of suicides in certain parts of the country recently, particularly in the eastern state.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind leads the nation in paying rich tributes to veteran journalist-author Kuldip Nayar, who died in Delhi, as people from all walks of life recalled Nayar’s contribution to uphold the freedom of the media and expression.

India will not accept relief assistance from foreign governments for the flood-ravaged state of Kerala, the government says, following offers of aid from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Kuldip Nayar, one of the doyens of Indian journalism and renowned author-cum rights activist who fiercely fought for media freedom and civil liberties, dies in a hospital in Delhi. He was 95.

​India calles on WhatsApp to clamp down on fake news spread on the messaging app that has been blamed for mob beatings across the vast South Asian country.

Pakistani Foreign Minister SM Qureshi claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an offer of talks in his letter to newly-elected Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. But Indian media reports citing sources that the letter written by PM Modi to his Pakistani counterpart was congratulatory in nature and contained no such proposal.