A West Bengal state minister yesterday said two additional canals will be dug to divert water from the Teesta and irrigate farms in the northern parts of the state.

Three key opposition parties in India have agreed to keep both the Congress and the BJP at an arm’s length, indicating they will follow a policy of treating the two parties equally.

India's West Bengal government has indicated it will go ahead with the work of digging two canals to channel water from the Teesta river for irrigation in northern parts of the state.

India yesterday approved purchases of missiles, helicopters, artillery guns and electronic warfare systems worth $8.5 billion as it sought to add more teeth to its military.

Two pilots died when an Indian Army Cheetah helicopter crashed near the Mandala hills area in West Kameng district of the country’s Arunachal Pradesh today.

Of the 87 "declared foreigners", 64 are from Myanmar, 22 from Bangladesh, and one from Senegal, another senior official said

Two Namibian cheetahs relocated to India last year were released into the wild, more than seven decades after the world’s fastest land animal was declared extinct in the South Asian country.

The Indian government has firmly opposed pleas in the Supreme Court, seeking recognition of same-sex marriage, contending that the notion of marriage necessarily presupposes a union between two persons of the opposite sex.

"Interesting to see how the BBC which makes lofty claims about journalistic objectivity and independence suspends their star anchor over his social media activity," Thakur tweeted

Police in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, a police official said yesterday. The victim, Naseem Qureshi, 56, died earlier this

he two-part documentary was banned by the Indian government and Income-Tax authorities had carried out a "survey" on the premises of the BBC last month

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi pledged greater defence ties yesterday after a diplomatic tour where the leaders bonded over their countries’ shared love of cricket.

Two persons have died of influenza caused by the H3N2 virus, the Indian government said yesterday. One person has died in Haryana and the other in Karnataka.

India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur today accused The New York Times of "spreading blatant lies" about India and described an opinion piece published in the newspaper on the freedom of press in Kashmir as "mischievous and fictitious"

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia over alleged money laundering charges in connection with the excise policy case

Amid mounting number of child deaths primarily due to acute respiratory infection (ARI), the health authorities in India's West Bengal state has cancelled the leave of all its staffers, an official said today

The armies of France and India hold their first joint exercise in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, from today, the Indian Defence Ministry said yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his heartfelt congratulations to 22nd president-elect of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of hypocrisy after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia cannot be allowed to wage war in Ukraine with impunity, during a security forum they attended in New Delhi yesterday.

The United States, Japan, India and Australia yesterday expressed concern over the militarisation of Asia’s waters, in a veiled reference to China’s growing presence in contested seas.