Rakesh Kumar has a post-graduate degree but works as a house painter in the small town of Kasba Bonli in northwestern India.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who was sentenced to five years in jail for killing two endangered blackbucks, sleeps without dinner on his first night at Jodhpur Central Jail in India.

Used to super luxury hotels and a plush house in Mumbai, Bollywood super star Salman Khan will spend his time and sleep on the floor in a barrack in the high-security Jodhpur central jail where he has been lodged following his conviction and sentencing for poaching blackbucks.

Bollywood super star Salman Khan is sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted by a court in northern Indian state of Rajasthan for killing two blackbucks, an endangered species.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi orders the withdrawal of rules punishing journalists held responsible for distributing "fake news", giving no reason for the change, less than 24 hours after the original announcement.

Low-caste Dalits fought street battles with police yesterday that left at least six dead as protests against a Supreme Court rights ruling swept across large swathes of India. Protesters clashed with security forces, attacked buses and government buildings, and blocked trains and major roads.

India's national space agency has lost contact with the GSAT-6A satellite as it prepared to undertake its third and final orbiting manoeuvre on Saturday, authorities said yesterday. The satellite was designed to improve communications for the armed forces. It was launched on Thursday.

Two people were arrested after an angry mob beat to death a man accused of raping an eight-year-old girl in Ghaziabad district on the rural outskirts of New Delhi, police said yesterday. "He was dragged out from his house and beaten to death," said Ghaziabad's Police Superintendent Arvind Kumar Maurya of 25-year-old Jitendra, who goes by one name.

Sixteen people have been killed in Indian Kashmir in some of the fiercest fighting this year in the restive Himalayan region, police said yesterday, as authorities braced for more violence.

India vows to strengthen its online security after high school exam papers were leaked ahead of crucial tests, forcing millions of students to resit their finals.

India's government sends a notice to Facebook asking whether the personal data of Indian voters and users has been compromised by UK-based Cambridge Analytica or any other downstream entity.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with members of Bangladesh youth delegation at his office in New Delhi, India.

Hit-and-run attackers have killed two journalists in 24 hours in separate incidents that underlined India's reputation as one of the most

India's top court yesterday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevailing practices of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among

Allegations that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official mobile application was sending personal user data to a third party without their consent cause a furore on social media in India and drew criticism from the leader of the main opposition party.

A powerful Indian politician is sentenced to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees ($570,000) from a state government’s treasury while he was the state’s top elected official.

An Indian court has sentenced 11 men to life in prison for killing a Muslim meat trader they suspected of transporting beef, in the first

India has allocated $1.54 billion for its ambitious health programme aimed at providing insurance cover for about half the population,

In the first ever prosecution in a case of lynching over cow vigilantism, a fast track court in Jharkhand sentences 11 people to life imprisonment. Among those awarded punishment is BJP leader Nityanand Mahto.

India successfully flight-tests its supersonic cruise missile ‘Brahmos’ in a desert in Rajasthan state.