India today indicated that it would not allow the food security of its South Asian neighbours to be hit by the ban imposed on exports of wheat and that the measure was a temporary one.

India has banned wheat exports with immediate effect as part of its measures to cool rising domestic prices but lifted prohibition on export of onion seeds, according to official notifications by the commerce ministry of the country.

Singing of India’s national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" was made compulsory at all madrasas in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh from today (May 12, 2022), according to an official.

After describing why this region is India’s gateway to realising its eastern ambitions, Sudeep soon cuts to the chase, stating that the Naga peace process is central to establishing peace in Nagaland and Manipur.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has filed a petition in India's Allahabad High Court to open 22 closed rooms of the Taj Mahal to ascertain reports of “hidden” idols of Hindu deities.

Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers before he gave the call to worship.

A start-up company in India’s IT city Bengaluru has allowed half-an-hour for power nap for its employees in office, in the latest of novel moves by such firms to be staff-friendly amidst rising attrition post-Covid-19 pandemic.

The Allahabad High Court in India today (May 6, 2022) ruled that delivering azaan on loudspeakers is not a fundamental right, ANI reported.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, today flagged off six floating border outposts at Hingalganj in North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, saying the measure would help curb smuggling and infiltration.

The government of the eastern Indian state of Odisha today sounded an alert of a possible cyclone over the Bay of Bengal as a cyclonic circulation over South Andaman Sea and neighbourhood persisted and could result in a depression with a wind speed of up to 75km per hour by May 8.

India today said its economic assistance to Sri Lanka, facing its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, stands at more than USD three billion this year, so far, and is instrumental in addressing diverse needs of the government and people of Sri Lanka.

India today declined to make a comment on whether Bangladesh requested to intervene on its behalf over US sanctions on Rab.

Indian American supermodel and author Padma Lakshmi recently took to Twitter to assert that there is "no threat to Hinduism in India" and protest "violence against Muslims in the country".

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed deep concerns about the worsening religious freedom conditions in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Dhaka this Thursday (April 28, 2022) to hand over an invitation on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina for an official visit to India.

India has suggested to the IMF and World Bank to temporarily give Sri Lanka – grappling with its worst financial crisis – the tag of a lower-income country to help the island nation restructure its debt.

India has suspended tourist visas issued to Chinese nationals, said the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters on the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

Bangladesh is likely to export hilsa to India during this year's Durga Puja festival as well.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was effusive about the warm welcome he got in India, prompting him to describe his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as a “khaas dost” and gushed that he felt like Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.