Authorities in Delhi and Mumbai today banned public celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colour, next week amidst rising cases of Covid-19, our Delhi correspondent reports.

The Indian government has been granted time till April 9 by the Lok Sabha and July 9 by the Rajya Sabha to frame rules for grant of citizenship under the amended citizenship law, parliament was told today.

National President of Assam’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party JP Nadda today released the manifesto for the upcoming assembly elections in the state, promising to work on the “corrected” National Register of Citizens (NRC), protect “genuine” Indian citizens and detect infiltrators.

India reported its most Covid-19 cases and deaths in months yesterday, on the first anniversary of the start of a chaotic nationwide lockdown that left many people jobless and shrank the economy.

The Government of India has gifted 109 ambulances to Bangladesh on the occasion of Bangabandhu's birth centenary.

India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly four months.

India is deliberating measures to increase the number of international students coming to the country for higher studies, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of pursuing "appeasement and vote-bank politics" which he said was responsible for infiltration in the state.

India reported 35,871 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest in more than three months, with the worst-affected state of Maharashtra alone accounting for 65% of that.

The Indian government today said it has not taken any decision on the nationwide roll-out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Indian state refiners are planning to cut oil imports from Saudi Arabia by about a quarter in May, in an escalating stand-off with Riyadh following OPEC’s decision to ignore calls from New Delhi to help the global economy with higher supply.

India’s Election Commission today suspended two senior police officers and shunted out the District Magistrate of Purbo Medinipur district in connection with the incident in Nandigram leading to injuries to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today said the unfenced stretch of Dhubri district of Assam’s border with Bangladesh will be completely sealed off if Bharatiya Janata Party returns to power in the state.

India’s Election Commission today ruled out any attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram assembly constituency where she is in fray for the coming polls, sources in the polls body said today.

India will carry out a deeper review of post-vaccination side effects from the AstraZeneca shot next week although no cases of blood clots have been reported so far, an official told AFP yesterday.

The first online summit of leaders of the US, India, Japan and Australia agreed to a plan to pool their financial and logistical resources to ramp up the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in India and distribution in the Indo-Pacific region.

India’s new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

India’s federal government conveyed to four northeastern Indian states sharing borders with Myanmar to keep a very strict watch on the entry of people from that country.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discharged from a state-run hospital in Kolkata today following improvement in her condition, two days after she was injured while campaigning ahead of the assembly polls in Nandigram.

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under procurement rules due to come into force in June.