The controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam appears to have been discarded for all practical purposes.

India will offer incentives to private hospitals to take part in the government’s health insurance programme, potentially the biggest of its kind in the world, a senior government official told Reuters.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he had never desired to join politics but having done so is trying to give his best to serve the people.

With an agreement on water-sharing of Teesta river in limbo, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina holds an over hour-long meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata and discussed a range of bilateral issues.

The West Bengal government has said two detention centres will be set up there soon for foreign nationals arrested on various criminal charges but sought to make it clear that these centres will have "absolutely no connection" with the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

All schools in Delhi and satellite cities of Noida and Gurugram have been ordered shut for two days as the air quality in the Indian capital again slipped into the severe category.

Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai after she complained of breathing difficulties.

Cyclone Bulbul, which made landfall between West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts, claims at least 10 lives and affected at least 2.73 lakh families in different parts of West Bengal.

At least five people, including two women, are killed as the very severe cyclone 'Bulbul' hit West Bengal’s southern coastal belt bordering Bangladesh and Odisha, triggering heavy rain coupled with strong winds that toppled trees, power and communication lines and hitting normal life.

Cyclone Bulbul hits India and southern Bangladesh, leaving two dead as authorities in the countries ordered more than two million people to get out of the path of the storm.

Flight operations at Kolkata airport will be stopped from 6:00pm today till 6:00am tomorrow, or for 12 hours, over safety concerns due to Cyclone Bulbul, Home Ministry officials have said.

The severe cyclonic storm “Bulbul” is very likely to weaken gradually and cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between Sagar Islands and Khepupara in Bangladesh across the Sundarbans delta late tonight as a severe cyclonic storm with maximum sustained wind speed of 110-120 Kmph gusting to 135 Kmph, the Indian Met Department says.

In a landmark judgment on a century-old religious row, the Indian Supreme Court clears the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed land in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh by allotting the plot to a Hindu outfit.

Hundreds of Indian Sikhs are set to make a historic pilgrimage to Pakistan, travelling visa-free to one of their religion's holiest sites under a landmark deal between the two countries separated by the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.

India has deployed thousands of additional security forces and roped in about 16,000 “digital volunteers” to sanitise social media of inflammatory posts ahead of a crucial Supreme Court verdict on a disputed religious site.

Relatives of an Indian woman who married outside her caste and fled her home to escape punishment stoned her and her husband to death after the couple returned to their village to visit family, police said yesterday.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of India’s main opposition Congress, had been informed by messaging service WhatsApp that her phone was hacked during this year’s election campaign by malware from Israeli surveillance firm NSO.

At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, Jammu and Kashmir has ceased to be a state and became India’s newest federally-ruled territory which gives Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government direct control to run its affairs.

The free travel scheme for women in Delhi public buses begins with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia saying it will ensure their safety and increase their role in the national capital's economy.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to retain power in Maharashtra in alliance with Shiv Sena but the saffron party was locked in a close race with the Congress in Haryana where no party was in sight of clear majority as counting of votes for the legislatures in the two states neared the end.