India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly four months.

India is deliberating measures to increase the number of international students coming to the country for higher studies, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of pursuing "appeasement and vote-bank politics" which he said was responsible for infiltration in the state.

India reported 35,871 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest in more than three months, with the worst-affected state of Maharashtra alone accounting for 65% of that.

The Indian government today said it has not taken any decision on the nationwide roll-out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Indian state refiners are planning to cut oil imports from Saudi Arabia by about a quarter in May, in an escalating stand-off with Riyadh following OPEC’s decision to ignore calls from New Delhi to help the global economy with higher supply.

India’s Election Commission today suspended two senior police officers and shunted out the District Magistrate of Purbo Medinipur district in connection with the incident in Nandigram leading to injuries to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today said the unfenced stretch of Dhubri district of Assam’s border with Bangladesh will be completely sealed off if Bharatiya Janata Party returns to power in the state.

India’s Election Commission today ruled out any attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram assembly constituency where she is in fray for the coming polls, sources in the polls body said today.

The first online summit of leaders of the US, India, Japan and Australia agreed to a plan to pool their financial and logistical resources to ramp up the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in India and distribution in the Indo-Pacific region.

India’s federal government conveyed to four northeastern Indian states sharing borders with Myanmar to keep a very strict watch on the entry of people from that country.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discharged from a state-run hospital in Kolkata today following improvement in her condition, two days after she was injured while campaigning ahead of the assembly polls in Nandigram.

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under procurement rules due to come into force in June.

Injured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a video message from hospital bed, said that she would return to the assembly election campaign trail in two to three days and also urged her supporters to maintain peace and restraint.

The condition of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital following the attack on her in Nandigram, was “stable”, a doctor attending to her said today.

West Bengal state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked by about 4-5 people in Nandigram where she had gone to file her nomination for the upcoming Assembly elections, according to the latest news coming in from the politically charged up state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today filed her nomination from the high-profile Nandigram assembly constituency in East Midnapore district where she will be pitted against her former protege and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.

India today summoned the British High Commissioner in New Delhi to express its “strong opposition” to the “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” on agricultural reform laws which has sparked farmers’ protests in the country.

Over the past few years, Narendra Modi's government has racked up pressure on global tech companies, imposing stringent restrictions on the conduct of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in India.

Thousands of women joined protests by farmers on the outskirts of Delhi on Monday to mark International Women’s Day, demanding the scrapping of new laws that open up agriculture produce markets to private buyers.