India's Supreme Court yesterday slammed the federal government and its authorities for their "lethargy" in taking steps to protect the Taj

At least seven persons are killed and many injured as landslides, set off by torrential rains, strikes different places in north eastern Indian state of Manipur's Tamenglong town.

WhatsApp took out full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers yesterday offering "easy tips" to identify fact from fiction after a slew

Only residents of Agra can offer Friday prayers at the mosque inside the Taj Mahal complex, the Supreme Court of India has said.

In a ground-breaking move to bring in more transparency in judiciary, the Indian government recommends its apex court to live stream court proceedings across the country.

India will further smoothen the process of granting visa for foreigners and is implementing the Immigration Visa Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) in a mission mode for their safety and convenience, the country's Home Minister Rajnath Singh says.

Indian authorities yesterday said they have sealed a home run by Mother Teresa's religious order and charged a nun and one other person with baby trafficking.

Weak infrastructure and a national shortage have made water costly all over India, but Sushila Devi paid a higher price than most. It took the deaths of her husband and son to force authorities to supply it to the slum she calls home.

The Indian High Court bestows the status of "legal person or entity" to animals in northern state of Uttarakhand saying "they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person."

As India braces for state-level and fresh parliamentary elections in the coming months, the country's Election Commission has launched an Android-based app to report any irregularity during the democratic exercise.

The Indian government has asked popular messaging app WhatsApp to take urgent steps to prevent the circulation of “irresponsible and explosive content” that have led to a series of lynching by mobs that left 12 people dead across the country in the past few weeks.

India has agreed to provide tariff concessions on 3,142 products to six Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) member-countries, including Bangladesh, from this month. These duty concessions will be more for least developed countries, Indian government says.

A small chartered plane crashed in a busy area of Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, killing at least six people including two on the ground, police say.

In the backdrop of an "all-time high" threat perception to Indian Prime Minister ahead of general elections, the federal Home Ministry has issued fresh security guidelines to states as per which not even ministers and officers will be allowed to come too close to the Prime Minister unless cleared by his Special Protection Group (SPG).

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday after a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll found the country was seen as the most dangerous for women in the world, calling it a "shame".

Five women working for a charity in remote eastern India were abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint, police said yesterday, in the latest horrific sex assault in the country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads thousands of people in marking the fourth edition of International Yoga Day celebrations by performing breathing exercises and ‘asanas.’

Chief Minister of India’s Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti resigns today after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ends its alliance with People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

India said Sunday it was resuming military operations against rebels in disputed Kashmir after a rare 30-day suspension for Ramadan

In a daring operation, the Indian Navy succeeds in anchoring a burning merchant ship off the Sagar Island in West Bengal at the mouth of the Ganges Delta.