The death toll from a massive landslide in India hit 37 yesterday, authorities said, as rescue teams battled teeming rain to search for 25 others still missing three days later. 

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Indian-administered Kashmir says she has been barred from travelling abroad by the Indian authorities who provided no valid reasons for their refusal.

A wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist captured in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday was an active member of BJP. He was also the party’s Minority Morcha social media in-charge in Jammu.

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted yesterday that the next 30 to 40 years will be the era of his party and India will become a world leader.

Indian police made fresh arrests yesterday in the murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, which had sparked tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority and a clampdown on protests and the internet to prevent them from escalating.

The Kolkata Police today issued a look-out notice for suspended BJP activist Nupur Sharma after she failed to appear before its investigators for the fourth time in a row over her controversial remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that triggered an outrage.

The Delhi Police were today (July 2, 2022) left red-faced when a senior officer KPS Malhotra was forced to admit that he had incorrectly informed the media that fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was sent to 14-day judicial custody.

An Indian domestic flight made an emergency landing in New Delhi on Saturday (July 2) after its cabin filled with smoke soon after take-off for the central city of Jabalpur, the airline said.

India’s main opposition Congress today (July 2, 2022) referred to some media reports claiming a link between Riyaz Akhtari, the main accused in the beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur town, and local BJP leaders. BJP has dismissed the claim as “fake”.

A court in Delhi today (July 2, 2022) rejected the bail plea of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and sent him to 14-day judicial custody.

Rescuers in India’s northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said yesterday, after a second day of search efforts.

India’s Supreme Court today came down heavily on suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her deplorable comments against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying her "loose tongue" has "set the entire country on fire" and that she is "single-handedly responsible for what is happening in the country".

India today imposed export tax on petrol, diesel and jet fuel (ATF) while also joining nations like the UK in imposing a windfall tax on crude oil produced locally.

India’s Supreme Court today (July 1, 2022) slammed former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her deplorable comments on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), saying her remarks “are disturbing and smack of arrogance” and that she owed the nation an apology.

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has voiced his concerns over the current political and social situation in India.

A large number of people from various tribal communities of five Indian states demonstrated in New Delhi on Thursday (June 30, 2022), saying they are “not Hindus or Christians” and demanding their religion be given a separate category.

At least seven people have died and another 55 are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, local officials said yesterday. 

Israel has expressed willingness to share technology and know-how with India for the success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship project “Make-in-India”, but voiced concerns over some cases of violation of intellectual property rights and indirectly citied China’s “reputation” regarding this.

The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear tomorrow Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair’s plea challenging his arrest and police remand on the charge of hurting religious sentiments following a complaint over a tweet from 2018, his lawyers said.

The Twitter account that filed an official complaint by tagging the Delhi Police was removed days after Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, was arrested because of a tweet he posted in 2018.