Indian banks have recovered Rs 18,000 crore from fugitives Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, who are accused of serious economic offences including money laundering, the country's Supreme Court was told today.

UN rights experts have called for an end to “misogynistic and sectarian” online attacks against a Muslim Indian woman journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment.

India has rushed hundreds of security personnel to a district in the south after riots saw mobs burn vehicles and pelt stones after a Hindu activist was killed. At

India’s home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire, but that his position might change

A special court in India today sentenced senior opposition politician and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years in jail and slapped on him a fine of Rs 60 lakh in connection with the Rs 139 crore fodder scam in which a government treasury was allegedly embezzled.

An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death yesterday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country’s biggest mass death sentences. 

A special court in India today sentenced to death 38 out of the 49 convicts in the serial blast case in Ahmedabad that left 56 people dead and more than 200 others injured nearly 14 years ago.

The Saudi Arabian army chief paid a “historic and landmark” first visit to India this week, according to a press release from the Indian Ministry of Defence.

T Kumar, a veteran photojournalist working for United News of India (UNI), died by suicide at the agency’s Chennai bureau office after he was reportedly deprived of salary for 60 months.

Thirteen people including women and children died after accidentally falling into a well during a wedding ceremony in India’s Uttar Pradesh last evening.

Indian tax officials yesterday conducted searches at the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the firm said, days after New Delhi banned a host of Chinese apps over national security concerns.

Schools reopened in southern India under tight security yesterday with public gatherings banned following protests over Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms.

A chaotic situation prevailed in the southern Indian state of Karnataka today as burqa-clad Muslim students were barred entry in several pre-university colleges following a High Court order restraining pupils from wearing any religious clothing in educational institutions.

A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a college to ban the head covering.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today questioned actor and West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Deepak Adhikari, popularly known by his on-screen name Dev, for nearly five hours in connection with its probe into a cattle smuggling racket operating along the border with Bangladesh.

India today advised its nationals in Ukraine, particularly students whose stay is not essential, to leave the country temporarily in view of “uncertainties of the current situation following escalating tensions between the European country and Russia.

A special court in India today convicted senior opposition leader and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Rs 139.5 crore government treasury embezzlement case.

The Trinamool Congress yesterday made a clean sweep in the civic polls to four municipal corporations in West Bengal — Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Chandernagore and Asansol — as per data available on the State Election Commission’s website.

Celebrated philosopher and social critic Noam Chomsky has said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, is “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling Indian secular democracy and turning the country into a Hindu ethnocracy”.

India yesterday reacted sharply to the comments coming from some countries on the hijab controversy in the southern state of Karnataka and said “motivated comments” on its internal issues “are not welcome”.