At least two people were killed and 20 injured after several coaches of a passenger train jumped the tracks in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, authorities said.

Five security personnel were killed in a firefight with gunmen in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the army and police said yesterday, with security sources saying militants had made a “tactical shift” in attacks.

Four Indian army personnel, including an officer, who were critically injured in a gunfight with heavily-armed militants in a dense forest, died of injuries in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir early today, official sources said

Thousands of lawyers in India’s capital yesterday protested against an overhaul in criminal legislation by staying away from work and boycotting court hearings, as opposition mounted to the changes.

Soldiers in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have killed three suspected militants, the army said, the latest incident in an uptick of attacks in the disputed northern territory.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said only eight persons from Assam have so far applied for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) since the rules for implementing the law were notified in March this year

India's opposition INDIA bloc, which put up a spirited performance in recent parliamentary polls, won 10 seats while BJP got two as votes were counted today for 13 assembly seats where by-elections were held on Wednesday across seven states

The wedding of the billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son Anant Ambani, 29, and his long-time girlfriend Radhika Merchant, 29, is expected to require the use of more than 100 private planes, including three Falcon-2000 jets, to transport wedding guests, among whom are celebrities in the worlds of entertainment, politics, and business.

India said yesterday it would hold an annual “Murder of the Constitution Day” from next year, commemorating a dark historical chapter tied to the family of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief political rival.

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose an additional tax on the country’s billionaires to generate funds for stretched public services like education and health.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday granted interim bail to opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, but he will stay in jail due to his arrest in another case.

India's Supreme Court today granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal who was arrested in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam filed by the Enforcement Directorate

India has no right to carry out development in the area China calls South Tibet, China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday in response to a Reuters report on New Delhi’s plans to speed up hydropower projects in the border state.

The kidney transplant racket in Delhi, exposed by the arrest of seven persons, including three Bangladeshis and an Indian doctor, was part of a bigger inter-state network involving patients from Bangladesh in Rajasthan and Haryana, Delhi Police sources said

Unnao District Magistrate Gaurang Rathi said, based on initial findings, the bus travelling from Motihari in Bihar to Delhi was speeding and rear-ended the milk tanker

Devastating floods in India’s northeast that have killed scores of people also swamped a national park drowning six threatened rhinos and other wildlife, government officials said yesterday.

India plans to spend $1 billion to expedite the construction of 12 hydropower stations in the northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh, two government sources said, a move that could raise tensions with China that lays claims to the region.

She was initially scheduled to leave Beijing on Thursday morning

The “mastermind” behind the kidney transplant racket busted in Delhi is a Bangladeshi national and both donors and receivers in the case were from Bangladesh, Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police’s Crime Branch Amit Goel said today

The Uttar Pradesh government today suspended six officials for alleged negligence in connection with the stampede that killed 121 people at a religious congregation in Hathras last week