Indian firing destroys 4 Pak military posts

The Indian army said it had destroyed four Pakistani military posts on Saturday along its contested border, the latest escalation
30 October 2016

'Indian border fire kills three civilians'

Pakistan yesterday accused India of killing three civilians and wounding several others in cross-border fire, as tensions soar in
28 October 2016

Indian mosque agrees to lift ban on women

An historic mosque in India yesterday agreed to scrap a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle
24 October 2016

Police kill at least 21 Maoist rebels

Indian police yesterday killed at least 21 rebels in a shootout in eastern India, a local officer said, the deadliest such incident this
24 October 2016

Indian group bans films with Pak artistes

Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association, a group of Indian cinemas, yesterday said they would not screen any films featuring Pakistani
14 October 2016

J&K newspaper banned for 'inciting unrest'

Authorities in Indian Kashmir have banned a local newspaper, Kashmir Reader, they said was inciting violence in the region.
4 October 2016

Cricket: BCCI threatens to call off NZ series, Lodha clarifies

With the BCCI threatening to call off the ongoing series between India and New Zealand, the Justice R M Lodha led panel today clarifies that they didn't direct the banks to freeze the accounts of the Board.
4 October 2016

Arundhati Roy announces second novel after 20-yr gap

Indian author Arundhati Roy announces that her second novel will be published in 2017 -- 20 years after she won the Booker Prize for her debut one.
3 October 2016

India arrests six suspected of plotting IS attack

Indian police have arrested six members of an Islamic State-inspired group suspected of plotting attacks on key figures and public places during the Hindu festival of Diwali, the national counter-terrorism agency says.
3 October 2016

India on high alert over possible Pakistan revenge strike

In backdrops of “surgical strikes” on terror launch pads across the de facto border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Indian authorities issue an alert for stepping up vigil at different important places across the country.
1 October 2016

Five finer points in diplomatic tussle

India's announcement that it will not attend the 19th Saarc summit in Pakistan featured a carefully formulated
28 September 2016

Delhi summons Pak envoy

Stepping up its diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, India yesterday summoned Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit and
27 September 2016

Fawad, other Pakistani artistes given 48hrs to leave India

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.
24 September 2016

India to ratify pact this year

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday pledged to formally join the Paris climate change agreement this year, a
8 September 2016

TMC now 'nat'l party' in India

After winning two consecutive assembly polls in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee on Friday added yet another feather to her cap with her
2 September 2016

Rio Olympics: 'Good-time' Indian officials under fire for flop

As Olympic under-achievers India head home from Rio having failed to win a gold medal, its gate-crashing, selfie-taking officials have been accused of failing to help its athletes taste success.
22 August 2016

Indians immune to Olympic fever

Around a giant screen showing the Olympics in a central New Delhi park, young Indians chat, take selfies or snooze in the late afternoon heat, glancing only occasionally at the heroic sporting feats on display.
10 August 2016

Olympics Goodwill Ambassador Salman Khan blunders

Indian Olympic Association's goodwill ambassador Salman Khan forgets the name of Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian to qualify for the vault event at the Rio Olympics.
10 August 2016

Mother and daughter 'gang-raped' in India

A mother and her teenage daughter were allegedly gang-raped in a field after being dragged from their car in Uttar Pradesh, police said
31 July 2016

India moves to feed its stranded workers

New Delhi was working yesterday to feed more than 10,000 Indian labourers stranded in the Gulf with no wages after losing their jobs, in what Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj called a "food crisis".
31 July 2016