Up to five trillion grocery bags are used each year and like most plastic garbage barely any is recycled, the UN said yesterday as it warned the world was choking on trash.

The VVIP aircraft carrying Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to South Africa goes incommunicado for 14 minutes, triggering a mid-air scare after the Mauritius Air Traffic Control presses the panic button, an official statement says on Sunday.

India today successfully test-fires its indigenously-developed nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-5, from an island in the Bay of Bengal.

Indian farmers vote overwhelmingly for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election that swept him to power. He cannot count on them doing so again, as a crash in commodity prices and surging fuel costs stoke anger in the countryside.

Three people, including two children, dies due to electrocution as pre-monsoon showers hit Mumbai on Saturday evening, reports NDTV.

Fresh wind storms swept across northern India killing at least 18 people and leaving a trail of damage, officials said yesterday.

Thousands of farmers protesting agrarian distress yesterday dumped vegetables, milk and other farm produce on roads and blocked supplies to cities in several Indian states as they began a 10-day strike to press for loan-waiver and higher price for their crops.

Fierce storms which swept across northern India have killed at least 47, taking the death toll from freak weather over the past month to several hundred, officials said yesterday.

The Indian government yesterday cleared the procurement of weapons valued at over Rs 6,900 crore as New Delhi aggressively pushes for modernization of the armed forces in the face traditional rivals Pakistan and China.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday invited himself over for a treat of dosas and idlis at the house of a Tamil Nadu woman

There cannot be any comprehensive dialogue with Pakistan till it shuns terrorism, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said yesterday, asserting talks were not appropriate while people are dying on the border.

Two people have died in a shootout in the disputed territory of Indian Kashmir, officials said yesterday, the first attacks since the army suspended operations against the militants for Ramadan.

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says that her government is still hopeful about inking the Teesta River water sharing treaty with Bangladesh.

At least four suspected militants are killed in a gunbattle with government troops after crossing into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed territory, the Indian military says.

Around 71.9% people who participated in an online poll say they will vote for Narendra Modi in next Indian general elections.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina receives 'Doctor of Literature (DLitt)' degree from Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman district in West Bengal.

A protester shot during demonstrations against a copper plant in southern India died of his injuries yesterday, officials said, the 13th victim killed by police fire.

A fourth member of the same Indian family has died from the rare Nipah virus, officials said yesterday, as authorities scramble to contain

Nine people are killed when police opened fire on protesters demanding the closure of a copper smelting plant over environmental pollution concern in a port city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu today.

At least ten people die of a disease caused by a virus found in fruit bats in the southern Indian state of Kerala, a senior functionary of the state says.