One person drowns and 13 people sustain burn injuries as a major fire sweeps through an Indian Coast Guard’s offshore support ship, forcing its crew to jump into the Bay of Bengal in outer harbour of Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh.

India’s Supreme Court orders that the list of those people who are excluded from the final National Register of Citizens in Assam be published only online on August 31.

The Border Security Force of India and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) exchange sweets and wishes on the occasion of Eid-ul Adha at designated points along the 4,096-km frontier between the two countries.

Eid-ul-Azha prayers were offered in mosques across the Kashmir valley amidst no reports of any violence, police say.

Six days after India revoked the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories, Kashmiri students in the national capital are still not able to communicate with their relatives and parents back home.

Sonia Gandhi is named the new interim President of the Congress party, two and half months after her son Rahul Gandhi quit the top organisational post of the party taking responsibility for its crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

Omar Abdullah-led National Conference move the Supreme Court challenging the Indian government’s move to abrogate Article 370 which gave Jammu and Kashmir a special status and to bifurcate it into two federally-ruled territories.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that elections will be held soon in the state for the local assembly, two days after government's decision to end special status for the state and split it into two union territories.

A joint technical committee of Bangladesh and India reaches a consensus to conduct a joint study on Ganges Barrage to assess its impact on the environment and livelihood.

Pakistan has once again closed a corridor in its airspace in a move that will result in an additional 12 minutes of flying time for overseas flights from India, a spokesman of state-owned Air India official says.

The Government has put Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on high alert in the wake of recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir and the Independence Day celebrations.

India has asked Pakistan to review its decision to downgrade bilateral diplomatic relations after its decisions on Kashmir.

More than 500 people have been rounded up in the latest crackdown in Indian Kashmir which has been on the edge since the right-wing government revoked its autonomy, reports say.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strongarm move to tighten control on Muslim-majority Kashmir is a gamble that could trigger conflict with Pakistan and re-ignite an insurgency that has already cost tens of thousands of lives, experts warn.

Pakistan announces that it is expelling the Indian High Commissioner and suspending bilateral trade with its nuclear-armed neighbour, days after New Delhi stripped the disputed Kashmir region of its special autonomy.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the leaders who paid their last respects today to former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj who died here of a massive cardiac arrest last night.

Former Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, also a senior leader of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), passes away aged 67.

It was a dramatic momentous Monday for Jammu and Kashmir. In one go, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Indian government put the militancy-hit state in a new template of its future journey along a path that is set to be very different from the one it has treaded for the last seven decades since the accession of the princely state to India after Partition in 1947.

India's government hails "historic" legislation to bring Kashmir under its direct control, as Pakistan vows to back the Muslim-majority region and challenge the divisive move which has seen tensions soar.

The abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir has sparked apprehensions in north eastern Indian states as the next Article 371 contains special provisions for them relating to sale and transfer of land and distinctive social and religious practices.