India’s environment ministry has allowed coal mines with clearances to increase output by 40 percent to step up production by up to 50 percent without seeking feedback from locals, it said in a memo reviewed by Reuters.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday suspended a colonial-era sedition law that activists say is often used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to target free speech and dissent.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today commended the BJP-led government in Assam state for strongly tackling illegal migration but alleged the Trinamool Congress government in neighbouring West Bengal was not cooperating with the Centre in dealing with the problem.

Protests erupted in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh locality yesterday, which was a key centre of a prolonged agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019-20, as hundreds of people, including women, opposed the local civic body’s anti-encroachment drive with bulldozers in the presence of heavy police deployment.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has filed a petition in India's Allahabad High Court to open 22 closed rooms of the Taj Mahal to ascertain reports of “hidden” idols of Hindu deities.

Protests today erupted in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area, which was a key centre of a prolonged agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019-20, as hundreds of people opposed the local civic body’s anti-encroachment drive armed with bulldozers in presence of heavy police deployment.

Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers before he gave the call to worship.

A start-up company in India’s IT city Bengaluru has allowed half-an-hour for power nap for its employees in office, in the latest of novel moves by such firms to be staff-friendly amidst rising attrition post-Covid-19 pandemic.

The 161st anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore is being observed in the country today after muted celebrations in the last two years due to the pandemic.

The devastating heatwave that gripped India and Pakistan over the last two months is unprecedented, but worse -- perhaps far worse -- is on the horizon as climate change continues apace, top climate scientists told AFP.

The Asian Games scheduled to take place in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September have been postponed until 2023 because of the Covid-19 situation, the governing Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday.

India’s main opposition Congress party yesterday demanded a hefty rise in compensation for the families of those who died of Covid-19, after the World Health Organization estimated the country’s toll was nearly 10 times the reported figure.

India is planning to reopen more than 100 coal mines previously considered financially unsustainable, a government official said yesterday, as a power crisis forces the world’s third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter to double down on the dirty fuel.

The Allahabad High Court in India today (May 6, 2022) ruled that delivering azaan on loudspeakers is not a fundamental right, ANI reported.

India yesterday published a new list of redrawn political constituencies for the former state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), giving greater representation to the Muslim-majority region’s Hindu areas and paving the way for fresh elections.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today reiterated that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which gives Indian citizenship to “persecuted” religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying the law would be implemented once the Covid-19 pandemic ends.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, today flagged off six floating border outposts at Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, saying the measure would help curb smuggling and infiltration.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended greetings to their countrymen on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Indian police today (May, 2022) detained 24 suspected Rohingya, including women and children, from Kailashahar in the Unakoti district of the northeastern state of Tripura when they were attempting to return to Bangladesh.

No individual in India can be forced to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the country’s Supreme Court said today.