.The West Bengal Commission for Women today said that it has taken note of allegations of rape and life threat levelled by a Bangladeshi student against a university professor in Paschim Bardhaman district of the state.

India’s embattled Congress party won big in a southern state election this weekend, exceeding expectations and gaining fresh momentum to take on entrenched Prime Minister Narendra Modi in national elections next year, top politicians and analysts said.

A resurgent Congress, India’s main opposition, yesterday swept back to power in the southern state of Karnataka, dethroning the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from its only southern perch in a boost to the grand old party ahead of the next general elections due early next year.

A resurgent Congress, India's main opposition, today swept back to power in the southern state of Karnataka, dethroning the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from its only southern perch in a boost to the grand old party ahead of the next general elections due early next year

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka from May 11 to take part in the sixth edition of Indian Ocean Conference here.

Mocha is very likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm later today

India's Santiniketan, where Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore built Visva-Bharati more than a century ago, has been recommended for inclusion in the Unesco World Heritage, according to India's Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced a key test yesterday as the only southern state where his Hindu nationalist BJP party holds power went to the polls a year before national elections. The BJP has applied its muscular brand of Hindu politics to

The met office said Mocha is likely to slightly lose its strength before making landfall on May 14

India and Bangladesh share deep ties and have intertwined culture and language and nobody can break the good relations between the two countries, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today

According to NDTV, the bus had 50 passengers on board and was on its way to Indore when it fell from a bridge in Khargone's Dasanga village

The death toll in ethnic rioting in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur has been officially pegged at 60 and the number of injured at 231, while 1,700 houses including religious sites were burnt in the past few days

Eminent Bangla litterateur Samaresh Majumdar, whose popularity transcended the borders of Bangladesh and West Bengal, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in Kolkata in the evening, losing a protracted battle to a severe infection in the lungs and respiratory system.

Cyclonic storm Mocha is likely to change its course and make landfall on the Bangladesh-Myanmar coasts on May 15, the Indian Meteorological Department said yesterday.

Indian security personnel are escorting back to their homes thousands of people who fled to temporary camps after rioting and ethnic clashes in the northeast that killed about 70 people last week, officials said yesterday.

Samaresh was best known for the series of novels Kalbela, Uttaradhikar, and Kalpurush

Three persons were killed when a MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed into a house at a village in the northern state of Rajasthan today, India's defence ministry said

Twenty-two people, including women and children, were killed when a houseboat with more than 30 passengers on board capsized and sank near a beach in the southern Indian state Kerala's Malappuram district on Sunday, the state government said

Some 23,000 people have fled ethnic violence in northeast India that has reportedly killed at least 54, the army said yesterday, although there was no new “major violence” overnight.

Normalcy is returning to day-to-day life in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur as the curfew was relaxed today in parts of the state where 54 people were killed in ethnic clashes over the last few days