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.

India's navy opened a third air base in the far-off Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday to beef up surveillance of Chinese ships and submarines entering the Indian Ocean through the nearby Malacca Straits, military officials and experts said.

Farmers staged a protest and raised slogans against Congress President Rahul Gandhi in his parliamentary constituency Amethi in India's Uttar Pradesh.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of India's Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, formally entered politics yesterday with the party appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party's intent to go full throttle in the key political battleground ahead of the general elections.

In the midst of growing protests in north eastern states against the Citizenship Amendment Bill for non-Muslims from Bangladesh,

The Indian government instructed Facebook and Google to take down "false and malicious" contents that spread misinformation about the food quality and safety in the country, reports The Times of India.

India's opposition parties drew half a million supporters to Kolkata's streets yesterday for the largest show of force yet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a national election looms.

India is all set to use space technology in a big way, including by launching a satellite for exclusive use of the Home Ministry, to tone up border security and management.

India is all set to use space technology in a big way, including by launching a satellite for exclusive use of the Home Ministry, to tone up border security and management.

Indian emergency workers said yesterday they have found the body of one of 15 miners trapped inside a so-called "rat hole" mine for over a month. The illegal and dangerous mine in Meghalaya was flooded on December 13. The Indian Navy spotted the body inside the deluged shaft at a depth of 160-210 feet with the help of a remote-controlled probe.

The Supreme Court yesterday relaxed stringent conditions imposed by the state government for getting licences for dance bars, paving the way for their opening in Mumbai and other cities in Maharashtra. The top court said that there cannot be total prohibition on dance bars by imposing unreasonable conditions as no licence has been granted by state since 2005.

Voices of dissent within the Bharatiya Janata Party in the north eastern India over the Citizenship Amendment Bill is growing by the day.

A disgraced religious sect leader was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for murdering a journalist who exposed rampant sexual abuses by the powerful guru.

Indian navy divers found the body of one of 15 miners who went missing in a flooded coal mine in a remote corner of the country more than a month ago, officials say.

One of the two women who infuriated Hindu traditionalists by entering a revered shrine in India was attacked by her mother-in-law yesterday as soon as she returned home after days on the run, police said.

Animal rights activists in India and netizens on social media are outraged after 16 mutilated and dead puppies are found in garbage bags at a hospital in Kolkata.

The government will construct 44 strategic roads along the border with China and over 2100 km of axial and lateral roads in Punjab and Rajasthan, abutting Pakistan, a CPWD document shows.

An officer and a soldier of the Indian Army are killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu.

Alok Kumar Verma yesterday resigned from service, a day after he was removed as the CBI Director by the Indian Prime Minister-led high-powered committee.

Two political rivals in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh will form a alliance in a bid to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in national election scheduled for May, leaders of the parties said.