Top officials of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party and an army of its supporters bombarded voters with disinformation as key states went to the polls, specialists say.

India’s military accidentally fired a missile into neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi’s defence ministry said yesterday, calling it “deeply regrettable”.

Overcoming strong anti-incumbency sentiments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP yesterday stormed back into power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

Breaking a 37-year-old jinx, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party -- led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- was today poised to storm back to power for a second successive tenure in the most populous and politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.

Indian e-commerce company Flipkart has apologised for its sexist marketing of kitchen appliances on Women’s Day.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was set for a resounding victory but a reduced majority at elections in the country’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, exit polls forecast yesterday.

At least five personnel of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) were killed today when their colleague allegedly opened fire at a BSF camp in Punjab state’s Amritsar, officials said.

Bangladesh and India have decided to conduct a feasibility study on a comprehensive bilateral free-trade agreement covering goods and services, reopen the border haats and operationalise the busy Benapole-Petrapole trade point round the clock.

A chartered plane carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ran into a turbulent air pocket minutes before landing at Kolkata airport when she was returning from election campaign in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh yesterday evening, Indian media reported today.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

At least 11 people died in eastern India after a massive explosion at a house where firecrackers were being made illegally, officials said yesterday.

Nearly 1,000 Indians are still stranded in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy, which are among the worst-hit areas during the ongoing Russian invasion.

An Indian TV news anchor’s outburst during a live talk show on Ukraine crisis went viral where he was yelling at the wrong guest the whole time.

India has sent 50 trucks carrying 2,500 tonnes of wheat for crisis-hit Afghanistan after Pakistan gave “exceptional” permission for the shipment to pass through,

Indian banks have recovered Rs 18,000 crore from fugitives Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, who are accused of serious economic offences including money laundering, the country's Supreme Court was told today.

UN rights experts have called for an end to “misogynistic and sectarian” online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment.

India has rushed hundreds of security personnel to a district in the south after riots saw mobs burn vehicles and pelt stones after a Hindu activist was killed. At

India’s home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire, but that his position might change

A special court in India today sentenced senior opposition politician and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years in jail and slapped on him a fine of Rs 60 lakh in connection with the Rs 139 crore fodder scam in which a government treasury was allegedly embezzled.

An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death yesterday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country’s biggest mass death sentences.