Death toll in India road accident rises to 44

At least 44 passengers are killed and 30 others injured when a bus carrying them fell in a gorge in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, officials say.
21 June 2019

Yoga for peace, harmony and progress: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads mass Yoga demonstration to mark the 5th International Day of Yoga.
21 June 2019

India will heighten border security

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind today said infiltrators “pose a major threat” to India’s internal security and said border security will be further strengthened to prevent infiltration.
20 June 2019

Om Birla elected as Lok Sabha speaker

Om Birla, a two-time lawmaker of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has been elected as the Speaker of the new Lok Sabha.
19 June 2019

Modi wishes Rahul Gandhi on birthday

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends greetings to Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the latter’s 49th birthday, wishing him “good health and a long life.”
19 June 2019

India gunbattle kills 2 terrorists, soldier

Two terrorists and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police say.
18 June 2019

JP Nadda appointed BJP Working President

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party effected a top-level organizational change on Monday night appointing former federal Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda as its Working President, a post created for the first time in the party.
18 June 2019

Doctors call off strike after Mamata Banerjee accepts most demands

Protesting junior doctors in India call off strike after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agrees to nearly all their demands following a one-and-half hour long meeting with the representatives of different medical colleges of the state at Nabanna (secretariat).
17 June 2019

All-India doctors on massive strike; patients including Bangladeshis suffer

Doctors across India are on a massive strike in solidarity with their West Bengal counterparts who have agreed to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the condition that the meeting is held in the open in the presence of media.
17 June 2019

Don't bother about numbers: Modi to opposition ahead of Lok Sabha session

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads India’s newly-elected lawmakers of the Lok Sabha in taking oath and asked the opposition not to worry about their sharply-dwindled numerical strength in parliament whose first session began here.
17 June 2019

Heatwave claims 44 lives in Bihar

At least 44 people have died in a blistering heatwave that hit three Bihar districts, officials said yesterday.
16 June 2019

50 dead in India heat wave

Intense heat wave has resulted in the deaths of 12 people in Bihar’s Gaya of India. Elsewhere in the state, at least 50 people died of heat wave.
16 June 2019

India imposes higher customs duty on 28 US products

In a retaliatory measure, India has imposed a higher customs duty with effect from today on 28 products, including almond, pulses and walnut, imported from the United States almost a year after Washington hiked tariffs on Indian products like steel and aluminium.
16 June 2019

Foreign minister urges India to resolve Teesta issue

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has asks his new Indian counterpart S Jaishankar to expedite initiatives to resolve the Teesta issue and sought active supports over the Rohingya crisis in their maiden talks in Tajikistan, says a foreign office statement here.
15 June 2019

Not border killings but unfortunate deaths: BSF DG

Terming the border killings “unfortunate deaths”, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Rajni Kant Mishra today said such incidents have increased this year.
15 June 2019

Cyclone Vayu likely to hit Gujarat on June 17

Cyclone Vayu will change its path again and is likely to hit Gujarat’s Kutch on June 17-18, a top official of the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences has said.
15 June 2019

5 policemen shot dead by Maoists in India’s Jharkhand

Maoists shot dead five policemen and took away their firearms in an ambush in the eastern state of Jharkhand in India on Friday, officials said.
15 June 2019

Doctors stage mass strike

A leading Indian doctors’ association called for a nationwide strike on Monday, stepping up protests by medical staff demanding better security at hospitals after an attack on doctors in Kolkata.
14 June 2019

300 doctors resign in West Bengal

Nearly 300 doctors resigns from government hospitals in India’s West Bengal as their protest against an attack on a colleague earlier this week in Kolkata escalates.
14 June 2019

No talks with Pakistan till it stops exporting terror: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping that there was no question of India resuming dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad created an atmosphere free of terrorism in the region.
14 June 2019