India’s National Human Rights Commission today issued a notice to the Home Ministry over rights group Amnesty International deciding to halt its operations in the country after alleging “witch-hunt” by the government, officials said today according to our New Delhi correspondent.

Schools and colleges across India will be allowed to reopen from October 15 as the government tonight announced a fresh phase of lifting of Covid-19 curbs.

A special court in India acquitted all the 32 accused, including Bharatiya Janata Party veterans Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, in the 28-year-old case relating to the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, saying “there is no conclusive proof” against them.

The 6th Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting began this afternoon with a special focus on water sharing, projects under India-financed LoC, connectivity, trade and energy cooperation, officials said.

Human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday it is stopping its work in India because the government has frozen its bank accounts in the latest action against it for speaking out about rights violations.

India has approved the acquisition of military equipment, including an anti-airfield weapon and assault rifles, from the United States at an approximate cost of Rs 2,290 crore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised on the need for better cooperation with neighbouring countries for the development of the people of the sub-continent.

India’s former foreign, defence and finance minister Jaswant Singh, a close associate of ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, died in New Delhi today following a protracted bout of illness.

Harley-Davidson Inc is in advanced talks with India’s Hero MotoCorp for a distribution deal which will allow the US company’s motorcycles to be sold in India, after it stops local manufacturing there, three sources have told Reuters.

India’s Border Security Force has seized 100kg of Hilsa -- worth Rs 2 lakh -- while the consignment was allegedly being smuggled from Bangladesh into India through Petrapole integrated check-post in West Bengal.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus, may summon actor Deepika Padukone, NCB sources have said.

Former President of India’s Congress party Rahul Gandhi has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “destroying the web of relationships” that his party had cultivated over the years with India’s neighbouring countries.

After remaining closed to tourists for over six months due to coronavirus, the world heritage site Taj Mahal in Agra reopened today with strict health safety guidelines, media reports said.

Ten people were killed in their sleep and 20 feared trapped as a portion of a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi town of western Indian state of Maharashtra today, Indian police said.

India has given green signal to the commercial launch of a new coronavirus-detection technology named after master director Satyajit Ray’s iconic detective Feluda aka Prodosh Mitter.

India and Japan are looking at working together in countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

India’s sudden ban on onion exports undermined earlier discussions regarding such restrictions on essential food items, Dhaka has said in a letter to Delhi, as price of the kitchen staple skyrocketed immediately after Delhi’s ban announcement.

The officials of the Indian external affairs ministry have begun talks with the commerce ministry officials on the issue of allowing at least 1,000 trucks containing onions to proceed to Bangladesh to supply the kitchen staple.

A special court in Lucknow will pronounce judgment in the 28-year-old case relating to the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on September 30.

The Indian government’s move to ban the export of onion has sparked a farmers’ unrest in Maharashtra while nearly hundreds of trucks carrying an estimated 25,000 tonnes of onion were stranded on the Bangladesh border with West Bengal.