President Donald Trump on Friday tapped close political aide Sergio Gor as US ambassador to India, sending one of his feared enforcers at a delicate time in ties with New Delhi.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has voiced concern over “linguistic intolerance” in various states of India, especially against Bangla speakers who are suspected of being undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants.

India and France agreed to strengthen their strategic partnership and economic exchanges in a phone call between the two countries’ leaders yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday introduced the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha, proposing automatic removal of a prime minister, chief minister, or any other minister if they remain in jail for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges.

Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Randhir Jaiswal says

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party was allegedly attacked at a programme at her official residence in Civil Lines today, her party said

The flash floods in Kathua came just days after a cloudburst triggered flood in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, killing at least 60 people and injuring over 100

Indian rescuers yesterday pulled bodies from mud and rubble after the latest deadly flood to crash through a Himalayan village killed at least 60 people and washed away dozens more.

The exact number of missing persons is yet to be determined

More than a hundred injured

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet President Donald Trump during a visit to the United States next month to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, the Indian Express newspaper reported yesterday, citing sources.

India’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the removal of tens of thousands of stray dogs from the capital, citing public safety concerns after a surge in dog bites.

The goods are bleached and unbleached woven fabrics of jute or other bast fibre, twine, cordage and cables of jute besides sacks and bags of jute

Opposition lawmakers were stopped midway as they marched to the Election Commission, demanding rollback of electoral roll revision

New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new US weapons and aircraft, according to three Indian officials familiar with the matter, in India’s first concrete sign of discontent after tariffs imposed on its exports by President Donald Trump dragged ties to their lowest level in decades.

Indian authorities in Kashmir have banned 25 books, including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, saying the titles “excite secessionism” in the contested Muslim-majority region.

Indian exporters warned that additional US tariffs risked making businesses “not viable” after President Donald Trump ordered steeper levies on Indian goods over New Delhi’s purchasing of Russian oil.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said he will not compromise the interests of the country’s farmers even if he has to pay a heavy price, in his first comments after US President Donald Trump’s salvo of a 50% tariff on Indian goods.

482,336 Bangladeshis visited India on medical tourism visas in 2024, India’s Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat told the country's parliament

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China for the first time in over seven years, a government source said yesterday, in a further sign of a diplomatic thaw with Beijing as tensions with the United States rise.