India's political parties have been abusing Facebook Inc's popular messaging service WhatsApp ahead of the country's general election and the company has warned them not to do so, a senior executive said yesterday.

India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-31 has been successfully launched from a space port in French Guiana island.

Indian Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the CBI can't arrest Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe.

The Indian Supreme Court yesterday came down heavily on the federal government over the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) process and said it is hell bent on not allowing the work to continue.

An alliance of regional parties in India is working on a combined economic plan, one of its leaders said, in the latest sign that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces an increasingly united opposition in the upcoming general election.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is lording it over India just like the British, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said in a blistering pre-election broadside published yesterday.

BJP, the ruling party of India, questions West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee’s sit-in protest which starts after Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar is taken to a police station and is detained there for hours for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before he is released, reports NDTV.

At least six passengers were killed and more than 20 injured yesterday after an express train derailed in eastern India's Bihar state, officials said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh should worry about winning their own Lok Sabha seats before dreaming of victory in West Bengal.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, part of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for much of the time since its independence from the British in 1947, joined the struggle in January, when the opposition Congress party made her its face in the nation’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

An Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft crashes in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru immediately after taking off, killing both pilots.

India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay K Gokhale summons Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood late yesterda night and lodged a strong protest against Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s phone call to a moderate Kashmir separatist leader saying such action tantamount to a “direct interference” in India’s internal affairs.

Launching a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale jet deal, Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday alleged that he "sold" the Indian Air Force (IAF) and "stole" opportunities of the youth by giving away Rs 30,000 crore to his "friend" and businessman Anil Ambani.

As the BJP faces heat over the Citizenship Bill in the northeast, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that his party will always protect the interests of Assam.

India's opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said yesterday that his party will introduce a "minimum income guarantee" for the poor if it returns to power in elections this year.

Kuldip Nayar, a doyen of Indian journalism and a fearless champion of media freedom, has been posthumously honoured with the Indian government's third highest civilian honour -- the Padma Bhushan.

An Indian state minister yesterday courted controversy for his remarks on Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, saying, votes are not won with "a very pretty face" in politics. Vinod Narayan Jha, a minister of Bihar, said Priyanka Gandhi has no political achievement to her credit.

A lightweight satellite designed by students that can be held in the palm of the hand has been launched by Indian scientists, burnishing the country's credentials in miniature design technology.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling coalition will emerge as the largest group in a parliamentary election expected in the next few months but will fall short of a majority required to rule, two surveys showed on Thursday.

Amid renewed demands against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora yesterday asserted that the Election Commission is not going back to ballot papers.