At least 96 people died in two of India's most populous states over the last several days, officials said today, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heatwave..The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities warned residents ov

One of the issues Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to take up during his talks with US President Joe Biden in Washington next week is the South Asian neighbourhood, particularly Bangladesh where general elections are due early next year.

Over 2,000 tourists, including 23 Bangladeshis, were stranded in North Sikkim due to a landslide following a flashflood since Thursday, officials said.

In continued violence and arson in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, mobs clashed with security forces overnight in Imphal, the capital town, leaving two civilians injured

A federal Indian minister’s house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said yesterday.

Indian police said security forces killed five foreign militants early on Friday in a gunfight in Kashmir along the Line of Control (LOC), the defacto border with Pakistan in the Himalayan region.

A federal Indian minister's house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said today.

India’s defence ministry has approved the procurement of US-made armed MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, sources told Reuters yesterday.

India's third mission to the moon is scheduled to be launched in July, most likely in the second half of the month.

At least nine people have been killed in the latest clashes between members of rival ethnic groups in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said yesterday, as security forces pressed on with a hunt for illegal weapons.

Roads will be inundated along parts of India’s western coast and thatched houses were likely to be destroyed, the country’s weather department said yesterday, a day before a fierce cyclone was expected to make landfall in Gujarat and southern parts of Pakistan.

Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington, the Biden administration is pushing New Delhi to cut through its own red tape and advance a deal for dozens of US-made armed drones, two people familiar with the matter said.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) today said they are working separately and jointly to "reduce" the instances of killing of Bangladeshi nationals along the border

At least nine people were killed and 10 injured in a fresh bout of ethnic riots at a village in north eastern Indian state of Manipur in the wee hours of today, police said

India threatened to shut down Twitter in the country unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the handling of farmer protests, co-founder Jack Dorsey said, an accusation Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government called an “outright lie”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent fresh seasonal mangoes as gifts to Droupadi Murmu and Narendra Modi, the president and prime minister of India respectively

Coastal states of India and neighbouring Pakistan were on alert yesterday after meteorologists warned that a cyclonic storm over the Arabian sea would intensify over the next 24 hours.

An Olympic wrestler yesterday criticised the pace of a police inquiry into sexual harassment accusations against the chief of India’s national wrestling body.

Some 11 percent of Indians are diabetic, a government study found, adding that diabetes, hypertension and obesity are much more common in India than previously estimated.

Fresh violence in India’s Manipur state has claimed at least three lives, including of a woman. Two others were injured in the attack, by suspected insurgents in Khoken village yesterday, Army sources said.