PM urges India-Bangladesh businessmen to work for mutual benefits

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges India-Bangladesh businessmen to work for mutual benefits and make the region more prosperous, saying the two neighbouring countries are enjoying the best ever relations as she addressed the India-Bangladesh Business Forum (IBBF).
4 October 2019

After Assam, Karnataka mulls NRC introduction

The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka, which houses India’s Information Technology hub Bengaluru, is mulling introduction of the National Register of Citizens in the state, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai says.
4 October 2019

Delhi on red alert over possible terror strikes

A red alert has been issued in Delhi late on Wednesday after receiving intelligence inputs about a possible terror strike in the capital during the festival season.
3 October 2019

NRC will be implemented across India, every infiltrator will be thrown out, says Amit Shah

India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah has declared that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be implemented across the length and breadth of India and every infiltrator will be thrown out of the country.
2 October 2019

Cops press panic button after snakes invade Indian police station

Three venomous snakes are removed from inside the Barjora Police Station, in the state of West Bengal of India, premises where officers pressed the panic button after a snake had appeared yesterday evening.
1 October 2019

India experiences wettest monsoon in 25years

The monsoon in India this year was the wettest in quarter of a century, leaving a trail of death devastation at several places.
1 October 2019

Late monsoon fury kills 100 in north India

At least 100 people have died in northern India over the last three days in unusually heavy late monsoon rains which have submerged streets, hospital wards and houses, officials said Monday.
30 September 2019

India bans onion export

India has announced a ban on export of onions with immediate effect and a slew of other steps to help improve availability of the kitchen staple and contain its soaring price in domestic markets.
29 September 2019

'No question of meeting Modi': PM Imran in conversation with CNN's Amanpour

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has made it unequivocally clear that he will not be meeting Indian premier Narendra Modi, given the the latter's actions in occupied Kashmir.
29 September 2019

Bangladesh has nothing to worry about NRC: Modi tells Hasina

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured Bangladesh that there is nothing to be worried about National Register of Citizens (NRC) of India as he held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New York.
27 September 2019

2 pilots killed in Indian Army helicopter crash

A helicopter of the Indian Army crashes in eastern Bhutan, killing both the pilots, official sources says.
27 September 2019

Amitabh Bachchan to receive Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Bollywood’s megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been unanimously chosen for this year's Dada Saheb Phalke winner, India's highest film honour.
24 September 2019

One law to rule India’s rivers

In possibly the most ambitious change to India’s water governance since the founding of the country in 1947, the central government is pushing to bring all inter-state river basins under its control.
20 September 2019

India bans sale of e-cigarettes

The Indian government announces a ban on the import, sale and production of electronic cigarettes, as a global backlash against vaping gathers pace.
18 September 2019

Trump to meet Imran, Modi for talks focusing on Kashmir

US President Donald Trump has said that he will meet both Indian and Pakistani leaders in the next few days while claiming that “a lot of progress is being made” in defusing tensions between South Asia’s two nuclear-armed neighbours.
18 September 2019

Modi turns 69

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 69 and begins the day with a visit to the statue of India’s leading freedom struggle hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada which is the lifeline of his home state of Gujarat.
17 September 2019

India SC allows senior Congress leader to visit J&K

The Indian Supreme Court has allowed senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to visit Jammu and Kashmir but said he cannot hold any political rally, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
16 September 2019

NRC on lines of Assam to be implemented in Haryana

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar says that his government will implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state on the lines of Assam.
16 September 2019

NRC likely to be key issue during Hasina’s Oct visit to India

Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) might be an important agenda of discussion during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to neighbouring India in early October, reports Hindustan Times.
14 September 2019

NRC: Individual status of Assam citizens published online

The individual status of the 3.1 crore people, who are included in the National Register of Citizens, and the 19.6 lakh, who are excluded from the list, is published online.
14 September 2019