India promulgates an ordinance providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.

A group of 637 academics in India and abroad have written an “open letter” to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, voicing “deep anger and anguish” at recent incidents of rape in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh states.

One of India's best known politicians, former finance and foreign minister Yashwant Sinha, quits the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is undermining democratic institutions.

Amidst outrage over a series of rape incidents of children across the country, the Indian cabinet today approved an ordinance to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 to introduce the death penalty for rape of children younger than 12 years.

The world's second largest Banyan tree in Mahabubnagar district of India’s Telangana which is almost dying, is on ‘saline drip’ now as part of the rejuvenation.

Indian top politicians have increasingly, by 490% to be exact, used hateful and decisive language in past four years under Modi-led government, a research by NDTV reveals.

India has now opened 160 educational institutions of national importance to foreign students in the first-ever initiative of its kind offering 15,000 seats under the programme in the first round.

India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.

At least 21 revellers were killed en route to a wedding when their truck flew off a bridge, police said yesterday. The truck, carrying more

Netizens are mocking an Indian minister who claimed that the Internet and satellite were invented hundreds of thousands of years ago by

Indian police have made another arrest after the alleged rape of a teenager by a ruling party politician sparked protests across the country, federal investigators say.

A symbolic Mongol Shubhajatra and a mesmerising display of dance and music marked the celebration of Pahela Baishakh, Bangla New Year's Day, by Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday promised justice after nationwide outrage mounted over the brutal gang rape and

India puts into orbit navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of its satellite navigation system NavIC in copy-book style.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a day-long fast today in a tit-for-tat protest against the opposition, whose leaders were

Bangladesh and India have signed six memoranda of understanding (MoU) during a bilateral meeting between the foreign secretaries of Bangladesh and India at State Guesthouse Padma in Dhaka.

A wife is not a “chattel” or an “object” and she cannot be forced to reside with her husband even if the man desires to live with her, the

In yet another incident of discord, the Chinese military last month strongly protested against what it called the Indian Army's

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveys to his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli India’s firm opposition to the staging of the Saarc Summit by Islamabad, given the fact that Pakistan continued to support cross-border terrorism from its territory.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who spent the last two nights in a prison for killing two black bucks two decades ago, releases from jail hours after getting bail from a court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur.