Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency says.

In backdrops of “surgical strikes” on terror launch pads across the de facto border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Indian authorities issue an alert for stepping up vigil at different important places across the country.

India's announcement that it will not attend the 19th Saarc summit in Pakistan featured a carefully formulated

Stepping up its diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, India yesterday summoned Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit and

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday pledged to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a

After winning two consecutive assembly polls in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee on Friday added yet another feather to her cap with her

As Olympic under-achievers India head home from Rio having failed to win a gold medal, its gate-crashing, selfie-taking officials have been accused of failing to help its athletes taste success.

Around a giant screen showing the Olympics in a central New Delhi park, young Indians chat, take selfies or snooze in the late afternoon heat, glancing only occasionally at the heroic sporting feats on display.

Indian Olympic Association's goodwill ambassador Salman Khan forgets the name of Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian to qualify for the vault event at the Rio Olympics.

A mother and her teenage daughter were allegedly gang-raped in a field after being dragged from their car in Uttar Pradesh, police said

New Delhi was working yesterday to feed more than 10,000 Indian labourers stranded in the Gulf with no wages after losing their jobs, in what Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj called a "food crisis".

Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila yesterday announced she will end her 16-year long hunger strike on August 9 to

Hundreds of protesters tried to storm a military airbase in Indian Kashmir yesterday, the third day of deadly clashes between

At least 15 youths from Kerala's Kasaragod and Palakkad districts who had travelled to the Middle East have gone missing for the last one

At least 11 protesters died as crowds angered by the killing of a separatist militant clashed with armed police in India's Jammu and

India’s Information and Broadcasting ministry (I&B) directs cable operators to black out “un-authorised” television channels including controversial Peace TV of Dr Zakir Naik, reports The Hindustan Times.

The death toll from landslides and flooding in northern India has risen to 25 after rescuers found more bodies buried under debris,

India has successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile from a defence base off the Bay of Bengal.

India successfully launches 20 satellites in a single mission, the most in the history of the country's ambitious space programme.