Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi

Legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away in Mumbai today, played a key role in mobilising funds and international opinions in favour of Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971 by travelling to different cities in Indian Air Force planes.

Late last year, an untested young member of the Indian Test team paced to and fro in his hotel room in Australia whilst undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine as he was gripped with overwhelming concern for his father Mohd Gauss, who was battling for life far away in India.

India’s import of rice bran oil from Bangladesh is set to double in the current financial year 2020-21, said BV Mehta, executive director of Solvent Extractors’ Association of India.

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, a dear friend of Bangladesh, is no more.

Behind all the accolades (Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award and epithets like elder statesman) for Pranab Mukherjee lies is his realisation that he was in the final analysis a Bengali to the core. “Aami Bangalee chhilam, achhi, o thakbo” he once said at a felicitation function in Kolkata.

India’s relations with two of its northern neighbours China and Nepal have of late come under considerable strain over territorial disputes.

Former captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was excluded on Thursday from the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) list of centrally-contracted players, triggering fresh doubts on his future

The cancellations of Foreign Minister Abdul Momen and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan’s visits to India amid protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act could be seen as the first sign of rough edges in the bilateral relations over the contentious law.

Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology of non-violence, Irish band U2, in collaboration with Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman, released a new track, Ahimsa (non-violence) under the banner of Island records.

A spike in air pollution in Delhi has become a cause for concern in the run-up to the day-night India-Bangladesh T20I on November 3. According to government agencies, the air pollution level in the Indian capital shot up yesterday and was expected to enter the ‘severe’ category last night due to firecracker emissions on the occasion of Diwali, unfavourable weather and a significant spike in stubble burning.

After onion, retail price of tomatoes shot up across India on Tuesday due to supply disruptions caused by heavy rains in key growing states.

Onion prices will calm down in the next few days as government-owned agencies have started releasing stock from the central buffer,

India assured Bangladesh of continued support for safe and speedy repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar last night.

“It’s never a bad thing to listen to one’s parents as their teachings never fail one in life,” says Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan.

India's decision to scrap the 'most-favoured nation' status to arch rival Pakistan in the wake of the last week's gruesome terror attack

In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank of India yesterday cut the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent on expectation of inflation staying within its target range.

India has become the world's second largest liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) consumer following the government's aggressive push to provide clean cooking fuel to every household, Indian Oil Secretary MM Kutty said on Tuesday.

The Indian Election Commission is sending a three-member team of observers for the parliamentary polls in Bangladesh, sources at the commission said last night.

Dhaka and New Delhi will ink a number of agreements, including one that will allow Bangladesh to use a number of Indian ports to carry goods and vice versa.

Wholesale onion prices have been rising in parts of India for the last two weeks because of falling supplies from producing states, a traders' body said.