Leaseholder arrested after Kolkata hotel fire kills nine
20 August 2026
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Kolkata hotel fire: 7-yr-old orphaned as four of Kushtia family perish
20 August 2026
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India youth protests highlight mistrust in 'lapdog' media
6 August 2026
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Lightning strikes kill 14 in India’s Jharkhand
6 August 2026
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India
Hasina not allowed to use Indian soil for politics
1 August 2026
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India
Videos on Modi: Meta India head named in police case
1 August 2026
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India suspends policeman for firing AK-47 at student protesters
27 July 2026
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Indian activists demand release of detained 'cockroach' protesters
27 July 2026
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Post-youth protests: Modi announces panel to overhaul exam system
27 July 2026
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Analysis / India's Gen Z dents Modi's aura ahead of key state polls
26 July 2026
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Amit Shah shared plans for BJP expansion in Nepal, Sri Lanka: Tripura chief minister
Sparking a fresh row, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said Home Minister Amit Shah, as party's national president, had once shared plans for expansion of Bharatiya Janata Party’s base in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
15 February 2021
India has offered Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh Army: Vikram Doraiswami
India has offered Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh Armed Forces, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami today.
15 February 2021
Tesla to set up electric car manufacturing unit in southern India
Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters.
14 February 2021
Himalayan rescuers recover more bodies as flash flood death toll rises to 50
Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India today, a week after the disaster struck, bringing the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said.
14 February 2021
Kerala Chief Minister says won’t implement CAA
The Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has said his government will not implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
14 February 2021
Minibus-lorry collision in India's Andhra Pradesh leaves 14 dead
Fourteen people, including eight women and a child, were killed and four others injured as a minibus collided with a lorry in Kurnool district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh early today, police said.
14 February 2021
Jammu and Kashmir will get state status at ‘appropriate time’: Amit Shah
Jammu and Kashmir will get back the state status at “an appropriate time,” Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.
13 February 2021
6.1 magnitude earthquake jolts India’s Punjab
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab with tremors and aftershocks in several parts of northwest India.
12 February 2021
India, pharmacy of the world, falls behind on vaccinations at home
India has won plaudits for gifting and selling Covid-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.
12 February 2021
15 killed in blast at firecracker factory in India’s Tamil Nadu
At least 15 workers were killed and more than 30 injured as an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said.
12 February 2021
India to start implementing CAA after end of Covid-19 vaccination: Indian home minister
India will start granting citizenship to refugees under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) after the Covid-19 vaccination process ends, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.
11 February 2021
2014 Burdwan blast: Kolkata court sentences 'Boma Mizan' to 29 years’ imprisonment
A special court in Kolkata sentenced Kausar alias "Boma Mizan", a leader of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, to 29 years’ imprisonment in a case filed over explosion at a house in West Bengal's Burdwan district in October 2014.
11 February 2021
32 dead, 174 remain missing 3 days after Indian glacier disaster
Indian rescuers today penetrated deeper through tonnes of rocks and slush to reach 35 power project workers trapped inside a tunnel as the toll in the glacial burst and flash flood in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 32.
10 February 2021
Didn't sit on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during visit to Visva Bharati: Amit Shah
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today rejected the claim by opposition Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during his visit to Visva Bharati in Bolpur last month.
9 February 2021
India says J&J interested in making Covid-19 vaccine in country
Johnson & Johnson is interested in manufacturing its COVID-19 vaccine in India, a government official told a news conference on Tuesday.
9 February 2021
Investigate alleged killings by BSF along Bangladesh border: HRW to India
Indian authorities should investigate and prosecute newly alleged abuses by its Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border, said Human Rights Watch in a statement today.
9 February 2021
Indian police arrest man suspected of leading farm protest violence
Police in the Indian capital arrested a man on Tuesday accused of leading a group of farmers who clashed with police and stormed the historic Red Fort last month during the worst day of violence in months of protests against agriculture reforms.
9 February 2021
Farmers’ protest: Indian SC stays arrest of Shashi Tharoor, 6 journalists
India’s Supreme Court today stayed arrest of opposition Congress Party lawmaker Shashi Tharoor and six journalists. The court order was in connection with FIRs lodged against them for their alleged “misleading” tweets regarding farmers’ tractor rally violence in New Delhi on Republic Day.
9 February 2021
28 dead, 170 remain missing 2 days after Indian glacier disaster
The death count in the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 28 today with the recovery of two more bodies from Chamoli district, reports our New Delhi correspondent quoting officials of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
9 February 2021
Modi says ‘minimum support price’ to remain; renews offer for talks with protesting farmers
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a fervent appeal to protesting farmers to end their agitation against the three new farm laws, renewing an offer of talks to resolve their concerns.
8 February 2021