Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for not mentioning the name of Indira Gandhi during the official programme on the occasion of Vijay Diwas to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the emergence of independent Bangladesh.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has termed 1971 as Indira Gandhi’s “finest year” and lauded India’s armed forces and the people of Bangladesh for the Liberation War victory that has a distinctive place in the history of the subcontinent.

Group Captain Varun Singh, who was the sole survivor of the Indian Air Force helicopter crash in which India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was killed on December 8, succumbed to his injuries in a military hospital today.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.

Two Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died, and 12 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday evening, police said.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday dropped a passage from its Class ten board exams question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it as “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) today dropped a passage from its class 10 board exam question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked yesterday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.

India’s Punjab state government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the federal government’s decision that extended the Border Security Force's jurisdiction to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a 50km stretch from the international border in Assam, West Bengal and Punjab, as compared to the earlier 15km.

Indian police have recovered a stolen watch customised for star footballer Diego Maradona and arrested a suspect behind the alleged theft in Dubai, officials claimed Saturday.

Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, was today the venue of an emotional trek down the memory lane for five retired officers of the Indian army who took part in the famous Tangail air drop by the army’s 2nd parachute battalion which cut off the retreat of Pakistani troops from the north towards Dhaka during the Liberation War on this day, half a century ago.

India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said yesterday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authorise vaccine boosters.

Amidst an outpour of grief, India today bade farewell to its first chief of defence staff and the country’s senior-most military officer Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika who died along with 11 others in a helicopter crash two days ago.

The bodies of India’s defence chief and 12 others who died in a helicopter crash laid draped in the Indian flag at a defence cantonment yesterday, before being flown to New Delhi, where the general will be laid to rest with full military honours.

An activist lawyer detained for more than three years without trial was freed on bail in Mumbai yesterday, in the latest case to highlight the Indian

Indian farmers called off a year-long protest yesterday after the government conceded a clutch of demands, including assurances to consider guaranteed prices for all produce, instead of just rice and wheat, union leaders said.

Indian farmers today called off their 15-month-long agitation after the government repealed the three controversial farm sector reform laws and accepted most of their other demands, including giving a legal cover to minimum support price for crops.

Indian defence officials today retrieved the flight data recorder, popularly known as “black box”, of the Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter that crashed yesterday leaving the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others dead.

Indian Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin C Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash in the Nilgiris hills of Tamil Nadu state yesterday, was one of the most outstanding military commanders with a vision to thread together the three defence services and implement the organisational reforms in the military establishment.

India’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin C Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 other people were killed yesterday when an Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed on a forested hill enveloped in dense fog in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.