Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today rejected the claim by opposition Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during his visit to Visva Bharati in Bolpur last month.

Johnson & Johnson is interested in manufacturing its COVID-19 vaccine in India, a government official told a news conference on Tuesday.

Indian authorities should investigate and prosecute newly alleged abuses by its Border Security Force (BSF) along the Bangladesh border, said Human Rights Watch in a statement today.

Police in the Indian capital arrested a man on Tuesday accused of leading a group of farmers who clashed with police and stormed the historic Red Fort last month during the worst day of violence in months of protests against agriculture reforms.

India’s Supreme Court today stayed arrest of opposition Congress Party lawmaker Shashi Tharoor and six journalists. The court order was in connection with FIRs lodged against them for their alleged “misleading” tweets regarding farmers’ tractor rally violence in New Delhi on Republic Day.

The death count in the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 28 today with the recovery of two more bodies from Chamoli district, reports our New Delhi correspondent quoting officials of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a fervent appeal to protesting farmers to end their agitation against the three new farm laws, renewing an offer of talks to resolve their concerns.

Eighteen people were confirmed dead on Monday and at least 200 others were missing after a devastating flash flood in India thought to have been caused by a chunk of glacier breaking off.

About 150 labourers working in a power project were reported to have gone missing after a glacier broke and crashed into a dam in India’s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand's Chamoli district today.

Twitter Inc's refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.

Indian farmers, protesting the government’s agriculture sector reform laws, today blocked highways at several places in Punjab and Haryana states. Security was beefed up at all border points of Delhi with thousands of security personnel deployed, following a call for nationwide road blockade agitation.

India has said its relationship with Bangladesh has withstood the test of time and both countries have "charted a unique model for regional cooperation that is quite unparalleled in South Asia."

High speed 4G internet services are being restored across Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said today, more than 18 months after they were cut in the wake of the scrapping of the former state's special status under the Indian constitution.

Delhi police today lodged an FIR against teen climate campaigner Greta Thunberg’s tweets supporting the farmers’ protest, reports NDTV. She has been accused of “criminal conspiracy and promoting enmity” through her tweets regarding the farmers protest in India.

The Indian government has directed Twitter to comply with its order to remove content and accounts related to “farmer genocide hashtags” and warned the microblogging platform may face "penal action" for non-compliance of the order, sources said.

India today reacted sharply to foreign celebrities, including pop star Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg, speaking in support of the farmers’ protest against three farm sector reform laws and said “the temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments, especially when resorted to by celebrities and others, is neither accurate nor responsible.”

International pop star Rihanna came out in support of the agitation by Indian farmers and criticised the internet shutdown at the protest site on the outskirts of Delhi.

The Indian government has not taken any decision on preparing a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC), Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the phone where Modi assured him that India would deploy all its resources to find and punish the perpetrators of a blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi last Friday.

Three Indian media bodies have condemned the police action against two journalists who were picked up during the farmers’ protests at Delhi’s Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with police personnel.