India’s Bihar seeks opening of all Farakka Barrage gates amid rising Ganges
25 August 2026
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Leaseholder arrested after Kolkata hotel fire kills nine
20 August 2026
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Kolkata hotel fire: 7-yr-old orphaned as four of Kushtia family perish
20 August 2026
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India youth protests highlight mistrust in 'lapdog' media
6 August 2026
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Lightning strikes kill 14 in India’s Jharkhand
6 August 2026
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Hasina not allowed to use Indian soil for politics
1 August 2026
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Videos on Modi: Meta India head named in police case
1 August 2026
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India suspends policeman for firing AK-47 at student protesters
27 July 2026
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Indian activists demand release of detained 'cockroach' protesters
27 July 2026
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Post-youth protests: Modi announces panel to overhaul exam system
27 July 2026
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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