Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today vacated his official bungalow on Tughlaq Road in the heart of Delhi following his disqualification as a lawmaker.

The 15km Akhaura-Agartala rail link connecting India's Agartala with Gangasagar in Bangladesh's Brahmanbaria will be completed by September, said Tripura Transport Minister Sushanta Chowdhury

Twitter has removed verified blue ticks from the accounts of a host of Indian celebrities and politicians ranging from Bollywood megastars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

India’s main opposition Congress today accused the federal government of "targeting" Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen after the Visva Bharati University issued an eviction order order asking him to vacate 13 decimals of land on the campus.

The sessions court in Surat in the Indian state of Gujarat today rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea for stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case..The ruling means Rahul will continue to remain disqualified as a lawmaker -- that is, a member of Lok Sabha, the lower hou

India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by the end of June, UN estimates showed yesterday, posing huge challenges to a nation with creaking infrastructure and insufficient jobs for millions of young people.

South Asia is home to highest number of child brides in the world as increased financial pressures and school closures due to Covid-19 forced families to marry off their young daughters, according to new estimates released by Unicef yesterday.

India has overtaken China to become the world's most populous nation with 142.86 crore people, according to the latest report of the United Nations Population Fund made public today

India's Supreme Court today questioned the paroles granted to 11 convicts during their incarceration in the infamous Bilkis Bano gang-rape case relating to the 2002 Gujarat state riots and said the gravity of the offence could have been considered by the state.

About 300 people queued at Apple's store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook, who inaugurated the first retail store run by the tech giant in India, underscoring the importance of its market

Eleven people died of heatstroke in India after an estimated one million spectators waited for hours in the sun at a government-sponsored awards ceremony, officials said yesterday.

Hundreds of thousands of people attended an award function on Sunday afternoon where federal home minister Amit Shah presented an award to a well-known social activist, on the outskirts of the country's financial capital of Mumbai in Maharashtra

Gunmen seemingly posing as journalists shot dead a former Indian member of parliament and his brother live on TV as they were being taken in handcuffs to hospital by police, authorities said.

Gunmen seemingly posing as journalists shot dead a former Indian member of parliament and his brother live on TV as they were being taken in handcuffs to hospital by police, authorities said..Atiq Ahmed, 61, who had been jailed since 2019 and was convicted of kidnapping, was answering rep

India’s financial crime-fighting agency has opened an investigation into alleged violations of foreign exchange rules by the BBC, a source told Reuters yesterday, months after tax officials searched the broadcaster’s Mumbai and Delhi offices.

A sessions court in Surat in India's Gujarat today said it will give its ruling on April 20 regarding a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who is seeking a stay on his conviction.

India’s enforcement directorate (ED) today filed a case against BBC India for alleged violation of foreign exchange rules, the directorate’s officials said..The case was registered under stringent Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), reports our New Delhi correspondent..The enforc

Four soldiers were killed in firing at a military base in the Indian border state of Punjab early yesterday, the army said, and a search for the shooters was in progress.

Elon Musk said yesterday he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of PM Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India.

Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in India are expected to rise for the next 10-12 days, and will gradually come down, news agency PTI reported citing sources