Anger over a draft citizens' list in Assam that leaves out over 40 lakh people stalled Indian parliament today as the Rajya Sabha adjourned within minutes and the opposition protested loudly in the Lok Sabha, reports NDTV.

The Indian government will soon bring a parliamentary bill proposing death penalty for the crime of mob beating federal Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir said in the backdrop of a series of mob lynching incidents that left 32 people dead across eleven states in one year.

India has stripped 40 lakh people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the north-eastern state.

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India's worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he's a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation.

Heavy monsoon rains that sparked floods and caused buildings to collapse have killed at least 49 people in north India's Uttar Pradesh state since Thursday officials said, as the national weather agency issued further storm warnings.

In its first official reaction to the general elections in Pakistan, India expresses hope that the new government in that country, which is likely to be headed by Imran Khan, will work constructively for peace with neighbours to build a South Asia free of terror and violence.

Over a thousand rockets belonging to an 18th-century Muslim warrior king have been found by excavators in an abandoned well in India's southern Karnataka state, an official say.

At least 33 people were killed when a bus carrying them fell into a 500 feet deep gorge in western Indian state of Maharashtra, senior officials say.

A total of 465 persons have lost their lives and over 1.3 million people have been affected by floods and rains in five Indian states during the current monsoon so far.

The Paschimbanga Bidhan Shabha yesterday unanimously passed a resolution to use Bangla in three languages as the name of the state.

Almost 450 people were in custody in the Indian state of Maharashtra yesterday after clashes between thousands of protestors from the Maratha minority and police charging with batons and firing tear gas, officials said.

An Indian court sentences death penalty for two policemen in Kerala state over torturing and killing a youth in police custody in 2005.

The West Bengal Assembly passes a resolution to change the state's name to 'Bangla' from West Bengal.

Protesters attack public buses in India’s financial hub Mumbai and neighbouring areas as a general strike called by Maratha outfits to press their demand for reservation in jobs and education is underway.

Two Bangladesh nationals, suspected to be members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), are arrested by law enforcers in a joint operation in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Five people are killed after a devastating fire broke out inside a residential building in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district.

India yesterday said people whose names are missing from a list of citizens to be issued by a border state this month will not be detained, amid concerns that Muslims will be targeted under the guise of detecting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Three rebels are killed in a gun battle with Indian troops in disputed Kashmir, police say.

A Muslim man died early yesterday after he was attacked by vigilantes while transporting cows in Rajasthan state, police said.

A day after creating a flutter in the Lok Sabha by hugging Indian PM Narendra Modi and later winking, Congress President Rahul Gandhi yesterday said the only way to build a nation is by harnessing love and compassion of people.