Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process has begun to deport them back to Myanmar, two officials said on Sunday.

Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty joined India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today and shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a mega rally in Kolkata ahead of the coming assembly elections in the state beginning later this month.

Indian farmers began gathering on Saturday to block a six-lane expressway outside New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against deregulation of agriculture markets, to add pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced she will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state from Nandigram constituency.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.

The Taj Mahal in Agra was briefly shut and tourists were evacuated his morning after Uttar Pradesh Police received a call about a bomb at the iconic monument. The call was made to the police helpline, NDTV reports.

India today allowed all private hospitals with adequate facilities to serve as Covid-19 vaccination centres as its expanded inoculation drive entered the second day.

Experts say that the relatively low hospitalisation and fatality rates in India suggest the coronavirus pandemic is approaching its next phase - largely manageable local outbreaks.

The authorities in India have announced to expand the country’s inoculation drive against Covid-19 to private hospitals and also allowing people aged above 60 years and those over 45 with comorbidities from March 1.

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an association of the country’s biggest newspapers, has urged global search engine Google to hike the publisher’s share of its advertisement revenue to 85 percent for carrying their content online, joining an intensifying international face-off with the media houses.

An abandoned vehicle containing explosives was found this evening near India’s richest industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in Mumbai, Maharashtra state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said.

The passenger train between New Jalpaiguri (NJP) in India’s West Bengal state and Dhaka will start on March 26, as part of Bangladesh's independence golden jubilee celebrations.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said Bangladesh can export edible oil to India with 20 percent value addition to the product.

The Indian Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria arrived in Dhaka this afternoon on a three-day visit to Bangladesh.

A substantial fraction of India’s 1.35 billion population currently has immunity against the coronavirus, coupled perhaps with some natural form of immunity, three eminent scientists of the country said quoting serological surveys as well as model predictions.

India has provided 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine as gift to the Maldives.

“Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye” (Bengal wants its own daughter) -- is the new slogan unveiled today by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress portraying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections due in March-April.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put forward a five-point plan for enhancing collaboration among South Asian countries to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes launching of a special visa scheme for free movement of doctors and nurses.

India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the bomb attack on her ministerial colleague Jakir Hossain was “part of a conspiracy” as certain people were “pressing” him to switch parties.

For the first time, the Indian government has approved financial powers for the entire top brass of the country's armed forces. Earlier, only the chiefs and the vice chiefs of the three services -- the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- were allowed to make such decisions.