In line with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath orders a blanket ban on cow smuggling and closure of slaughter houses across the India’s most populous state.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches assets worth Rs 18.37 crore of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO based at Dongri in south Mumbai, in the Zakir Naik money laundering case.

Out of the top five countries that received the most remittances from the US, four are from Asia, according to the latest World Bank data.

India has boosted security at the Taj Mahal after a pro-Islamic State group reportedly warned of attacks in the country and threatened

India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said,

Bangladesh and India sincerely want a solution over Teesta water sharing during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to that country in April, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud says. The Bangladesh premier will be visiting India on an invitation extended by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on April 7-10.

India yesterday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a

Maoist rebels yesterday ambushed a paramilitary patrol in India's eastern Chhattisgarh state, killing 11 policemen, regional police said.

A beaming Amit Shah called the BJP's big victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand "the victories of Narendra Modi's leadership."

India's first lunar probe - Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost is still orbiting the moon, NASA scientists have discovered. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

Indian police said yesterday they had found 19 aborted female foetuses dumped in a sewer in the western state of Maharashtra,

News bestseller tells how a poor artist of India married a Swedish tourist, then rode four months on the hippie trail to join her.

The Central government is considering more steps to curb cash transactions even as a few banks have already started imposing charges after limited transactions. The government is now considering imposing a cap on cash holding limit as suggested by the SIT.

The former managing director of a little-known Indian company that claimed to be selling the world's cheapest smartphone has been

An ATM in Delhi spewed dummy 2,000-rupee notes issued by the 'Children Bank of India', prompting an investigation into the

FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.

Scientists have discovered four new species of miniature night frogs small enough to sit on a fingernail in a remote part of India,

At least seven suspected Maoist rebels were killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in the remote forests of central India, an officer

An ally of disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala was yesterday appointed the next leader of Tamil Nadu state, ending a weeks-long

An Indian court sentenced one person to 10 years' imprisonment but acquitted two others yesterday over bomb blasts that ripped