India yesterday withdrew its 14-month-long blanket ban on the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect but imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of $490 per tonne.

Five people were arrested in India for the killing of a seven-year-old boy in an alleged ritual sacrifice aimed at bringing good fortune to a public school, police said yesterday.

Activists from several right-wing groups staged a protest in Kanpur today, where the India-Bangladesh cricket teams are playing their second Test match.

At least 43 people, including 37 children, tragically drowned, and three others went missing while bathing in rivers and ponds as part of the "Jivitputrika" festival in Bihar, the state government announced today

Torrential rain lashed India's financial capital Mumbai, triggering floods and killing at least four people as well as paralysing the city and forcing schools to close

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed confidence that his country’s relationship with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will continue to be “positive and constructive”.

Polling in the second phase of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority region, began today with long queues at several booths in all the 26 seats, officials said

India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations.

The developments in Bangladesh came up during discussions between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said at a rally in Jharkhand that if BJP returns to power in the state, it will chase Rohingya and Bangladeshi infiltrators out of Jharkhand

The trawler had left from the Sundarbans in West Bengal on Wednesday with 17 men on board, said Surajit Bag, assistant director of fishing in the state government.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked Jharkhand’s state’s ruling JMM-led coalition for allegedly encouraging "rampant infiltration" and cautioned that if not checked, illegal immigrants will become a majority in the state in the next 25-30 years

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi was today sworn in as the youngest chief minister of Delhi, four days after party chief Arvind Kejriwal resigned following his bail by the Supreme Court in a corruption case

Carrying flaming torch in their hands, thousands of people from all sections of society walked 42km from Highland Park in the southern fringes of the city last night in Kolkata demanding justice for the trainee woman doctor who was raped and murdered in state-run R G Kar hospital last month

A top politician in eastern India yesterday blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to relocate.

A top politician in eastern India today blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to relocate.

West Bengal’s striking junior doctors have announced they will "partially" withdraw their cease work agitation and rejoin emergency and essential services at state-run hospitals from tomorrow

A meeting between Chief Adviser Prof Mohammad Yunus and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their upcoming visits to the United States remains uncertain.

The second round of talks between junior doctors and West Bengal government officials failed to end the strike, with doctors accusing the authorities of refusing to provide written minutes of the meeting on the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case.

Voters queued outside polling stations in India’s Jammu and Kashmir yesterday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.