In the wake of the row over hijab in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, writer Taslima Nasreen said burqa-hijab is no different from "chastity belt from the dark ages" and hoped that women will soon realise that.

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

India is hoping to cut diesel use by farms to zero and migrate the agriculture sector to renewable energy as early as 2024, the country's power ministry said on Friday, as a part of its broader plan to transition to cleaner energy sources.

With Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections beginning, speculation is on whether Yogi Adityanath, the incumbent chief minister of the state, will be reelected to make a stronger bid to succeed Narendra Modi.

A student has moved to India’s Supreme Court challenging the direction of the Karnataka state High Court that asked students not to wear any religious clothes on campuses of educational institutions which can instigate people till the matter is resolved.

People in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday voted in the first of a series of local elections that will be a key test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling party.

India’s Karnataka State High Court today asked the students not to wear any religious cloth, whether hijab or saffron scarves, on campuses of educational institutions till the matter is resolved.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation today summoned actor and West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress lawmaker Deepak Adhikari, popularly known by his on-screen name Deb, in connection with its probe into a cattle smuggling racket along the border with Bangladesh, said CBI sources.

India’s Congress party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today said that it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear.

An Indian High Court has urged students and people at large to maintain peace, saying only a “mischievous section will keep the issue burning” as the row over wearing hijab to class spread to various parts of the southern Indian state Karnataka.

The authorities in the southern Indian state of Karnataka today ordered closure of all high schools and colleges for next three days in the BJP-ruled state amidst an ongoing row over wearing hijab.

India convicted 49 people yesterday over a 2008 attack in the western city of Ahmedabad that left dozens dead, in what perpetrators said was retaliation for earlier deadly communal violence.

Indian army rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of seven soldiers buried in an avalanche while on patrol along a remote Himalayan frontier contested by China.

​​​​​​​Popular fast food joints KFC and Domino’s have apologised following a backlash on social media after separate posts from their Pakistan-based franchises were published in solidarity with Kashmir separatists.

Seven Indian army personnel, who went missing after being hit in an avalanche in the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday, have been found dead, the Army said today.

A Himalayan avalanche trapped a patrol team of seven Indian Army personnel in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near China on Sunday and they

A prominent journalist in Indian-administered Kashmir has been arrested by police and accused of “glorifying terrorism” and “spreading fake news” in the disputed territory, where a running press crackdown has intensified.

India’s official Covid-19 death toll crossed 500,000 yesterday, a level some data analysts said was breached last year but was obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where millions remain vulnerable to the disease.

A team of Indian scientists, in collaboration with an industry partner, have developed what is said to be a self-disinfecting “copper-based nanoparticle-coated” antiviral facemask to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the government said today.

India’s Covid-19 death toll today crossed the grim milestone of five lakh with the addition of 1,072 fresh fatalities,