Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India yesterday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats.

Seven decades after they went extinct in India, the country today got eight cheetahs who were flown in from Namibia for conservation and promotion of the feline in a national park.

Indian city of Varanasi, parliamentary constituency of the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been selected as the first-ever tourism and cultural capital of nine-nation security grouping Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for 2022-2023.

China has blocked a proposal by the US and India at the United Nations to blacklist top Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Sajid Mir, one of India’s most wanted terrorists and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 175 people dead.

Heavy rains flooded hundreds of homes, knocked out power and collapsed structures including a wall that crushed 12 people in northern India, officials said Friday. 

Adani briefly became the world’s second-richest person on the Forbes real-time billionaire tracker on Friday, weeks after becoming the first Asian to break into

At least nine persons, including three minors, were killed when the boundary wall of an army enclave collapsed on their hut in the northern Indian city of Lucknow amid heavy rains, police said today.

Indian police yesterday arrested six men accused of gang-raping and murdering two teenage sisters whose bodies were found hanging from a tree outside their village, prompting protests.

At least seven labourers were killed and one was seriously injured when they fell to the ground while working inside an elevator shaft at an under-construction building in Ahmedabad city of western Indian state of Gujarat today, police said.

Eight cheetahs will be sent to India where they will be personally welcomed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, officials said yesterday, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the speedy big cats to the country.

At least eight people were killed in a fire that broke out in an electric bike showroom and spread to a lodge above it in southern Indian city of Secunderabad early today.

Bengaluru is notorious for its traffic, which makes simple routes seem unendingly long. However, the story of a doctor who made an exceptional decision to save his patient's life is proving to be motivating.

India’s Supreme Court fixed the hearing in 220 petitions challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019 on October 31 and said it will refer the case to a three-judge Bench.

Indian Supreme Court is likely to hear today a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on or before December 31, 2014.

India yesterday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in a regional summit in Uzbekistan that according to Russia will see face-to-face talks between Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Indian Supreme Court is likely to hear -- tomorrow (September 12, 2022) -- a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan on or before December 31, 2014.

The Partition of the Indian subcontinent separated them 75 years ago but the irresistible call of blood relations finally brought about a teary reunion between a brother and his sister separated by the border in 1947 as religious divide blurred.

India’s Supreme Court today (September 9, 2022) granted bail to journalist Siddique Kappan who was arrested in October 2020 while on his way to Hathras in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where a Dalit woman died after allegedly being gang-raped.

India, the largest exporter of rice in the world, today (September 9, 2022) said it was facing a fall in domestic production but assured “dependent and vulnerable countries” that they will have adequate availability of parboiled rice as the country has a significant share in the global rice export.

The north-eastern Indian state of Tripura has decided to set up a special investigation team of the police to probe recent cases of illegal entry into the country from Bangladesh, a senior Indian police official said today according to our New Delhi correspondent (September 9, 2022).