The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu rose to 47 and the condition of at least 30 people is stated to be critical, the state government said today

China is pressing India to restart direct passenger flights after a four-year halt, but New Delhi is resisting as a border dispute continues to weigh on ties between the world’s two most populous countries, officials said.

A Delhi court today granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case in the alleged liquor excise policy scam

The unrelenting heatwave sweeping vast swathes of India has claimed at least 110 lives and left over 40,000 people afflicted by suspected heatstroke between March 1 and June 18 this year, Indian Health Ministry officials said today

Police suspect it was used to dispose of the body of the slain MP

District Collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath and Police Superintendent Samay Singh Meena, along with nine other police officials suspended

India recorded more than 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases this summer as a prolonged heatwave killed more than 100 people across the country, while parts of its northeast grappled with floods from heavy rain, authorities said

India was battling extreme weather yesterday that caused severe heatwaves, landslides and floods, killing at least 11 people this week, among them a woman and her three daughters buried alive in a northeastern state, officials and media said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her parliamentary election debut from Wayanad constituency in Kerala, the party announced today

A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India's West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in an accident that railway authorities blamed on a disregarded signal

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent a letter to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, conveying his warmest greetings on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Azha

India’s authorities have sanctioned the prosecution of award-winning author-activist Arundhati Roy and former professor at the Central University of Kashmir Showkat Hossain under a stringent anti-terror law for allegedly making provocative speeches at an event in New Delhi in 2010.

India’s authorities have sanctioned the prosecution of award-winning author-activist Arundhati Roy and former professor at the Central University of Kashmir Showkat Hossain under a stringent anti-terror law for allegedly making provocative speeches at an event in New Delhi in 2010

At least six people have been killed this week and 2,000 tourists stranded in India’s Himalayan state of Sikkim in landslides and floods after heavy rainfall, officials said yesterday.

A plane carrying the bodies of 45 migrant workers killed in a Kuwait housing block fire landed in India on Friday, an AFP reporter at the scene saw

Currently serving as the vice chief of the Army Staff, Dwivedi will take charge on June 30, the day the current army chief, Gen Manoj C Pande, retires from office, according to a government announcement released yesterday

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flucaused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal

India will focus on finding solutions to the border issues with China that has long strained ties between the neighbouring countries, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said yesterday after assuming charge for a second straight term.

Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur yesterday, wounding two people, but the leader was not with them at the time, officials said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled his coalition government after a surprise election setback lost his Hindu-nationalist party an overall majority.