India's military has taken steps necessary to defend the country, a government minister says after Indian combat planes carries out raids on alleged militant camps in Pakistan.

Indian jets conducted air strikes against a militant camp in Pakistani territory, India's foreign secretary says, and an Indian government source claimed 300 militants had been killed, but Pakistan denied there had been any casualties.

Indian authorities have detained hundreds of separatist leaders and Muslim activists in an escalating crackdown in disputed Kashmir with the region remaining on high alert following a suicide bomb attack.

At least 58 more workers have died in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, police said yesterday, taking the death toll from the latest mass alcohol poisoning beyond 150.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Indian army has resolved to wipe out terrorists and their harbourers.

At least 133 people have died and about 225 people have been hospitalized after drinking tainted liquor in two separate incidents in India’s remote northeast, authorities say.

At least 13 people are killed and six injured when an explosion rips through a shop in Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh state, officials say.

The death toll rises to 93 in India’s Assam after tea plantation workers drank toxic bootleg liquor when they received their weekly wages, reports The Times of India.

At least 300 vehicles are destroyed in a massive fire at a parking lot near the Aero India venue in Bengaluru’s Yelahanka Air Force Station.

An Indian government minister reiterated on Thursday the country's plan to restrict the flow of water to Pakistan from its share of rivers, the latest effort by New Delhi to pressure its neighbour after a militant attack in Kashmir.

Two alleged members of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) arrested by police in India’s Uttar Pradesh, the state's top police official says.

Six Indian army men are feared dead in an avalanche that hit a remote place in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district bordering China, officials say.

Indian prisoners stone to death a Pakistani inmate in a jail amid mounting tensions over a suicide bombing that Delhi has blamed on its arch-rival neighbour, an official says.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi breaks with government protocol to personally welcome Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to New Delhi.

India's top military commander in Kashmir yesterday told mothers to get their militant sons to surrender or see them dead, as security forces intensified a crackdown in the disputed region after a suicide bomber killed 40 paramilitary police.

Indian troops yesterday suffered new losses in a battle with Kashmir militants that left at least nine dead, officials said, just days after a major suicide bomb attack escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan.

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists suspected to be linked with last Thursday’s deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Indian paramilitary troops killing 40 of them, was killed in a gun battle in the state's Pulwama district today, defence officials said.

Bangladesh’s leading cultural outfit Chhayanaut is conferred the Indian government’s prestigious Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Harmony award for 2015 at an impressive function in New Delhi of India.

Wearing only underpants, Pavel Kalina twists his body up a wooden pole before performing a handstand at the top in the first world championships of an ancient Indian sport.

India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living outside their state faced property evictions, job suspensions and attacks on social media after a suicide bomber killed 44 policemen in the region.