India was battling extreme weather yesterday that caused severe heatwaves, landslides and floods, killing at least 11 people this week, among them a woman and her three daughters buried alive in a northeastern state, officials and media said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her parliamentary election debut from Wayanad constituency in Kerala, the party announced today

A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a letter to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, conveying his warmest greetings on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha

India’s authorities have sanctioned the prosecution of award-winning author-activist Arundhati Roy and former professor at the Central University of Kashmir Showkat Hossain under a stringent anti-terror law for allegedly making provocative speeches at an event in New Delhi in 2010.

India’s authorities have sanctioned the prosecution of award-winning author-activist Arundhati Roy and former professor at the Central University of Kashmir Showkat Hossain under a stringent anti-terror law for allegedly making provocative speeches at an event in New Delhi in 2010

At least six people have been killed this week and 2,000 tourists stranded in India’s Himalayan state of Sikkim in landslides and floods after heavy rainfall, officials said yesterday.

A plane carrying the bodies of 45 migrant workers killed in a Kuwait housing block fire landed in India on Friday, an AFP reporter at the scene saw

Currently serving as the vice chief of the Army Staff, Dwivedi will take charge on June 30, the day the current army chief, Gen Manoj C Pande, retires from office, according to a government announcement released yesterday

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flucaused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal

India will focus on finding solutions to the border issues with China that has long strained ties between the neighbouring countries, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said yesterday after assuming charge for a second straight term.

Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur yesterday, wounding two people, but the leader was not with them at the time, officials said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled his coalition government after a surprise election setback lost his Hindu-nationalist party an overall majority.

Trinamool Congress lawmaker Sagarika Ghose today said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee switched off all her lights and sat in darkness at her home during the entire swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi and central ministers on Sunday evening

India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures

Assuming charge a day after being sworn in for his third term, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today signed his first file authorizing the release of funds amounting to Rs 20,000 crore under a special existing scheme which is aimed at benefitting around 9.3 crore farmers

Narendra Modi was yesterday sworn in as India’s prime minister for a record-equalling third consecutive term. He will lead the 71-member BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

At least nine pilgrims have been killed and 33 others have been injured when their bus, reportedly attacked by terrorists, plunged into a gorge in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district.

India’s Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister yesterday for a third straight term, a rare feat that will also come with new challenges as the populist leader is forced to rely on allies to form a government. Here are some key issues Modi will need to tackle in office.

At least ten people died and over 30 were injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to a temple plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district today after coming under fire by rebels, ANI reported