At least 15 people were killed in India after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides near the Himalayan foothills, authorities said yesterday.

At least five people were killed and 25 injured in a road accident in Indian state of Rajasthan late Friday (August 19, 2022) night.

Nepal has signed a pact with an Indian company to develop a hydroelectric plant in the west of the nation years after a Chinese firm backed out over terms, officials said.

An unmanned yacht carrying assault rifles and ammo triggered a brief security scare after it mysteriously washed up on the Indian coast, officials said.

An Indian gang operated a fake police station from a hotel for eight months where they dressed up as officers and are believed to have extorted money from hundreds of people, an official said yesterday.

India is expected to register as many as 2.5 million new voters in the Jammu and Kashmir region, a top official said late on Wednesday.

India’s home ministry yesterday said that Rohingya refugees in the capital New Delhi would be held at a detention centre and then deported, contradicting a minister’s earlier statement promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority.

The United States and Western countries may not appreciate India buying Russian oil but they have accepted it as New Delhi has not been defensive about its stand, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

The Indian Home Ministry today said Rohingya refugees in New Delhi would be kept at a detention centre till they are deported, refuting central Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri's statement made earlier promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority community members from Myanmar.

As India marked 75 years of its independence from more than two centuries of British rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday flagged corruption and nepotism among the biggest two challenges today saying graft is eating into the country like termites.

On June 11 this year, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the headquarters of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe). It was a significant step in the operationalization of reforms launched by the Government of India to promote private sector participation in India’s space sector, providing access to space assets, data and facilities, which were hitherto entirely with the government entity, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Indian administered Kashmir yesterday sacked four government employees, citing their involvement in activities “prejudicial to the interests of the security of the state”.

Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin said she was worried after the stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie in New York and said if this can happen to him in the west, then anyone critical of Islam can be attacked.

India said yesterday it opposed any unilateral change to the status quo over Taiwan but that its stance on the ‘one-China’ policy remained consistent, days after Beijing said it hoped New Delhi would continue to recognise its claim to self-governing Taiwan.

Two Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by Kolkata police from the iconic Victoria Memorial premises in central Kolkata for allegedly flying a drone without permission in the area.

Militants attacked an Indian army post in the disputed Kashmir region yesterday, killing three soldiers, while two attackers died in the shootout that came amid heightened security ahead of India’s independence day celebrations.

New Delhi will enforce a mask mandate again after Covid-19 infections rose in the past fortnight, a government order showed yesterday, though

India’s Supreme Court today extended the interim protection to former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma from coercive action till the probe into her controversial remarks about Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) is concluded by the Delhi Police.

Indian companies are using Asian currencies more often to pay for Russian coal imports, according to customs documents and industry sources, avoiding the US dollar and cutting the risk of breaching Western sanctions against Moscow.

The Bharatiya Janata Party was today pushed out of power in the key eastern Indian state of Bihar when its five-year-old ally Janata Dal (United) led by chief minister Nitish Kumar parted ways and joined hands with anti-BJP forces Lalu Prasad Yadav-headed Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress.