India's government announces plans to invest $137bn (£88bn) in its ageing railway network over the next five years

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government announces a reduction in power tariff.

INDIA is looking for new economic frontiers in the East. In the face of continuing stalemate of WTO negotiations, countries are looking for alternative or parallel arrangements. The past decade has seen the flourishing of many such initiatives. As an emerging global economic powerhouse, India would obviously not like to be left behind.

There is an outrage in India over a Hindu leader's comment that Mother Teresa's charity work has one objective - to convert the poor to Christianity.

The head of the United Nations Climate Change Panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, steps down amid sexual harassment allegations.

Scientists warn that resistance to the drug that has saved millions of lives from malaria has been detected over a wider area including India

Bangladesh has performed better than India in terms of economic and social development of women despite the latter’s faster economic growth, views Nobel laureate Prof Amartya Sen.

HAVE any of our politicians been listening to Arvind Kejriwal's speeches, especially the one after he took oath as the chief minister of the Indian capital? I suppose not. To be fair, neither did the Indian politicians before his magnificent victory in the latest Delhi Assembly polls. If they had, they may not have met the debacle that they did.

IT'S a telling comment on India's Congress party that a four-member committee it appointed in October to devise a strategy to rejuvenate it has turned out a non-starter because its members couldn't decide who should head it.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has termed her three-day visit to Bangladesh “very successful”.

In a major win, India defeated South Africa by 120 runs at Melbourne today riding on the ton from Shikhar Dhawan and egged on by spinners in the World Cup 2015 match

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee proposed to form a joint business council for quick solution of disputes in bilateral trade and investment with Bangladesh.

The nation is paying glowing tribute to the Language Movement martyrs, who laid down their lives for the mother tongue in 1952, amid countrywide ongoing blockade

Visiting West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee says Bangladesh need not worry over Teesta water-sharing deal and the issue will be resolved soon

The tiny hut at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family. The water took everything else from them, and one day it may take this, too.

An Indian baby born in the train toilet survives after falling on the tracks

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi vows to protect all religious groups after a string of attacks on churches in Delhi

India and Sri Lanka yesterday inked a civil nuclear pact -- the first such deal between two Saarc countries -- and decided to expand defence and security cooperation.

AWAY from the glare of global headlines, Nepal is grappling with a constitutional crisis that could once again propel the tourist Mecca, sensitively situated between India and China, into full-fledged conflict.

Sri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena seeks to mend relations with India over China's growing influence on Colombo