Pranab Mukherjee, the first Bengali to hold India’s highest constitutional post of President and one of the country's most respected politicians, has died after battling various ailments for 20 days.

An Indian national was arrested for trying to smuggle mobile phones into Bangladesh through the Petrapole integrated check-post in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the Border Security Force (BSF) has said.

An Indian court has ordered the release of 25 Bangladeshi fishermen, who were detained by Assam police for violating their tourist visa conditions.

South Korea has reported 323 new cases of the coronavirus as health officials prepare to tighten distancing restrictions in the greater capital area.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) members have apprehended two Indian nationals while they were trying to go to Bangladesh illegally.

India today said the visit by its Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla was “useful” in discussing specific initiatives in several key areas of mutual interest and also reflected the priority India accords to Bangladesh as part of its neighbourhood first policy.

India’s top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi was today urged by Congress party’s highest decision-making forum to stay on as the party's interim president and to bring about necessary changes to strengthen the organisation.

Congress’ interim President Sonia Gandhi today offered to quit and asked the party’s top decision-making body to start the process of looking for her replacement following a demand by more than 20 senior leaders for leadership change.

India has assured Bangladesh that it will carry out an investigation into why border killings were taking place despite the Indian government’s decision to bring those down to zero, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said.

After years of denial, the Pakistan government has finally revealed that the fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is sheltered in the country.

The Maldivian Ministry of Economic Development has extended the ban on bringing in new Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year.

Five hundred Indian nationals who were stranded for nearly five months due to coronavirus outbreak left Bangladesh through Benapole land port -- between yesterday morning and this noon.

The issues of Teesta river water-sharing, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) were not raised during Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said.

India proposes to enter into separate air bubble pacts with Bangladesh and four other South Asian countries to resume international flights, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today.

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee today tweeted that his father is doing “much better and stable than the preceding days” and he is responding well to treatment at a hospital in New Delhi.

The prime ministers of India and Nepal spoke over the phone on Saturday to try to ease bilateral tensions that have existed since a border dispute erupted between the two countries in May.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart K. P. Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours.

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah, who was undergoing treatment for coronavirus for 12 days, today said that he tested negative.

India reports a record single-day spurt of 66,999 Covid-19 cases, taking the country-wide total tally of infected patients to 23, 96,637.

The condition of India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, who tested positive for coronavirus and underwent a surgery last night to remove a clot in his brain, remains critical, the hospital where he is being treated said today.