Noted actor Soumitra Chatterjee has tested negative for coronavirus and his condition has improved, doctors attending on him at a private hospital in Kolkata say.

Soon after her release from a 14-month detention, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has vowed to continue her struggle for the restoration of Article 370, which gave a special constitutional status, and the resolution of the Kashmir issue.

At least 11 people have been killed as heavy incessant rains swept several parts of the southern Indian state of Telangana, triggering waterlogging on roads and inundation of low-lying areas.

The meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) between Bangladesh and India may be held within this year, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said.

After 14 months in detention, Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has been freed as the federally-ruled territory administration revoked the stringent Public Safety Act charges against her.

The air quality in Indian capital Delhi slid into the “very poor” category today for the first time this season as gentle wind and low temperatures allowed accumulation of pollutants.

The family members of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after being brutally assaulted and allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district of India’s Uttar Pradesh, has told the Allahabad High Court that they want the trial in the case to be moved out of the state.

Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka, Vikram Doraiswami, says that he is hopeful about resuming air operation between India and Bangladesh "very quickly."

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered an FIR and took over the probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, about 190km off New Delhi, last month.

The Reserve Bank of India today said that the country’s real GDP would contract by 9.5 percent in the 2020-21 financial year, and decided to keep benchmark interest rate unchanged at four percent.

A group of aggrieved Indian start-ups are pooling their resources to take on what they consider to be Google's dominance of the country's digital ecosystem.

India has turned down their mill owners’ plea to import raw jute from Bangladesh, saying there is enough stock for the next few months.

India has described the remarks of the UN resident coordinator in New Delhi that the alleged rape and murder in Hathras and Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh "are a reminder that those from disadvantaged social groups are at greater risk of gender-based violence” as “unwarranted”.

India today said it expects to receive and utilise approximately 400-500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines covering approximately 20-25 crore people by July next year, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rises past 100,000, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Repatriation of Rohingya refugees and the threat posed by Pakistan-based terror groups that are allegedly trying to infiltrate Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh are likely to be among the issues Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane and the country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will discuss during their one-day visit to Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.

India's coronavirus death count crossed the grim landmark of one lakh and the infection tally climbed to 64,73,544, reports our New Delhi correspondent, quoting the country’s health ministry.

Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been arrested by the police on Thursday and taken to the police station while they were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of a gang rape victim.

Leading Indian newspapers editorially commented on the special court’s acquittal of all the 32 accused in Babri Mosque demolition case, saying “it raises more questions than answers” and questions the quality of evidence put forward by the prosecution agency the Central Bureau of Investigation.