The Paschimbanga Bidhan Shabha yesterday unanimously passed a resolution to use Bangla in three languages as the name of the state.

Almost 450 people were in custody in the Indian state of Maharashtra yesterday after clashes between thousands of protestors from the Maratha minority and police charging with batons and firing tear gas, officials said.

An Indian court sentences death penalty for two policemen in Kerala state over torturing and killing a youth in police custody in 2005.

The West Bengal Assembly passes a resolution to change the state's name to 'Bangla' from West Bengal.

Protesters attack public buses in India’s financial hub Mumbai and neighbouring areas as a general strike called by Maratha outfits to press their demand for reservation in jobs and education is underway.

Two Bangladesh nationals, suspected to be members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), are arrested by law enforcers in a joint operation in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Five people are killed after a devastating fire broke out inside a residential building in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district.

India yesterday said people whose names are missing from a list of citizens to be issued by a border state this month will not be detained, amid concerns that Muslims will be targeted under the guise of detecting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Three rebels are killed in a gun battle with Indian troops in disputed Kashmir, police say.

A Muslim man died early yesterday after he was attacked by vigilantes while transporting cows in Rajasthan state, police said.

A day after creating a flutter in the Lok Sabha by hugging Indian PM Narendra Modi and later winking, Congress President Rahul Gandhi yesterday said the only way to build a nation is by harnessing love and compassion of people.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi terms as “unwanted” the hug he received from Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the parliament saying it was a result of the opposition’s lack of reason for their no-confidence motion against his government.

A man suspected to be smuggling cows has been beaten to death by a mob in yet another instance of vigilantism in Alwar district of northern Indian state of Rajasthan, police say.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi takes the lower house of Parliament by surprise as he decides to hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of his fiery speech during the debate on the no-confidence motion.

WhatsApp yesterday announced limits on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its biggest market.

It was a rare hug-and-wink situation during a debate on a no-trust motion in the lower House of Indian parliament yesterday.

India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi surprises Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a hug in the Lok Sabha, the lower House of parliament, after launching a blistering attack on him alleging corruption to the tune of Rs 45,000 crore in the purchase of fighter jets from France.

The Lok Sabha, the lower House of Indian parliament, begins a debate on the first no-confidence motion sponsored by the opposition against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The United States has offered India the armed version of Guardian drones that were originally authorized for sale as unarmed for surveillance purposes, a senior US official and an industry source told Reuters.

More than 100 Indian rescue workers were yesterday using steel cutters and drills to try and free a dozen people feared trapped under