India’s federal pollution control board yesterday ordered states and local bodies to be in “complete readiness” for emergency measures to tackle New Delhi’s worsening smog conditions due to a drop in temperature and wind speeds.

India’s Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday attacked the Centre citing different takes by the ministry of external affairs and Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat on the issue of Chinese village at the border.

The birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence is set to be celebrated at the Kolkata Book Fair on January 31 next year.

India's Uttar Pradesh state Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) today said it has apprehended two more people, who are allegedly part of a human trafficking syndicate, on a tip-off given by four persons including three Bangladeshi nationals.

West Bengal actress Srabanti Chatterjee, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party before assembly polls in March-April this year, today quit the saffron party citing its "lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of West Bengal".

India has sent thousands more paramilitary troops into its section of Kashmir, already one of the world’s most militarised zones, after a string of targeted killings by suspected rebels in recent weeks, officials said yesterday.

India is set to issue tourist visas from November 15 after a pause of 19 months for the global coronavirus pandemic, much to the cheer of Bangladeshis who account for the largest share of foreign tourist arrivals in the neighbouring country.

Liberation War veteran Lt Col (retd) Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir yesterday received Padma Shri, one of India’s most prestigious civilian awards, in recognition of his contribution to public affairs.

Four of 40 infants in the newborn-care unit of a government hospital died in central India when a fire swept through the unit late on Monday, government officials said, the latest in a string of hospital fires in the country this year that have killed dozens.

Two Bangladeshis -- career diplomat Syed Muazzem Ali and scholar Dr Enamul Haque -- were yesterday honoured by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind with two highest civilian awards of India.  

At least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus in a surge of cases in the Indian city of Kanpur, its health department said yesterday.

Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik yesterday said Aryan Khan, the son of Shah Rukh Khan, was kidnapped for ransom and “their game was ruined because of one selfie”.

Fire tore through a hospital in western India yesterday killing at least 11 coronavirus patients, officials said.

At least 10 Covid-19 patients died as a major fire swept the ICU ward of a hospital in western Indian state Maharashtra's Ahmednagar town today, officials said.

At a recent election rally, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi family that dominates the opposition Congress party, strode on stage and asked the crowd to repeat after her: “I’m a woman, I can fight.” 

On the winding road up to India’s Himalayan frontier is a postcard view of gushing streams and tranquil lakes -- punctuated occasionally by the sight of artillery barrels and military bunkers.

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said it had approved Indian drugmaker Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for the homegrown shot to be accepted as a valid vaccine in many poor countries.

Concerned over a high number of dengue cases in nine states and federally-ruled territories across India, the country’s health ministry sent high level teams of experts to those places to support local authorities.

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress yesterday swept all the four bypolls in assembly seats in the state wresting two of them from Bharatiya Janata Party which also suffered setbacks in bye-elections in two northern Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today posted a touching video clip on his grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary, recalling how she told him not to cry if something happened to her and that “she sort of sensed that she would be killed”.