Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has opined that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee clearly has the ability to become India's prime minister.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday virtually flagged off the world’s longest river cruise that will travel through India and Bangladesh, offering tourists a unique opportunity to experience the art, culture, history, and spirituality of both countries.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today stressed the importance of waterway connectivity between Bangladesh and the neighbouring country as he flagged off the world's longest river cruise that will travel through the two countries and inaugurated a multi-modal terminal in West Bengal's Haldia

The World Health Organization has issued an alert warning against the use of two Indian cough syrups blamed for the deaths of at least 20 children in Uzbekistan.

Bangladesh has shown interest in importing ethanol from India, India's Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the World’s Longest River Cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, and inaugurate a Tent City at Varanasi on 13 January at 10.30 am via video conferencing.

India will demolish some buildings in a northern Himalayan town near its border with China after evacuating families in the past few days, an official said yesterday, as hundreds of homes have developed cracks in an area thronged by pilgrims.

No rhinos were poached last year in the world’s largest reserve for the endangered great one-horned rhinoceros, India’s Assam state, in what authorities said was the first time since 1977.

Authorities in one of the holiest towns in the Indian Himalayas were evacuating panicked residents yesterday after hundreds of houses began developing yawning cracks and sinking, officials said.

The much-awaited 130-km India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL) for cross-border transportation of energy is likely to start by February, Indian officials were quoted as saying.

Indian authorities have ordered immediate evacuation of nearly 600 families from their houses in the Himalayan town of Joshimath, an official said yesterday, after hundreds of buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tourists developed cracks due to shifting soil.

Authorities in India's Uttarakhand have ordered immediate evacuation of nearly 600 families from their houses that have developed huge cracks in Joshimath town and faces a serious threat of land subsidence reportedly due to unplanned infrastructure development in an environmentally-fragile area.

Reserve Bank of India’s Governor Shaktikanta Das yesterday said the Indian government and the central bank are in talks with South Asian countries to have cross-border trade in Indian Rupee.

India will host a virtual summit of around 120 developing countries next week, its foreign minister said yesterday, as the country looks to bolster international cooperation during its presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) biggest economies.

In the run up to the in-person G20 summit, India will host a virtual summit on January 12 and 13 to bring together countries of global South and hear their views on food and energy security, mounting debt burdens and other economic challenges triggered by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Covid-19 pandemic.

The pilot of a trainer aircraft was killed and another injured when it crashed in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district, some 400km from the state capital Bhopal, police said today.

The river connectivity between Bangladesh and India will come into sharp focus when a 3,200km luxury cruise, the world's longest, connects the Indian town of Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, with Diburgarh town in Assam with nearly half of the journey through Bangladesh territory, from January 13.

India has approved an incentive plan of 174.9 billion rupees ($2.11 billion) to promote green hydrogen in a bid to cut emissions and become a major exporter in the field, the information minister said yesterday. The move is targeted to help India, one of the

Ten people have been killed within six days in a sudden uptick in violence in the usually more peaceful Hindu south of disputed Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld the legality of the government decision in 2016 to demonetise 86 percent of the country’s cash in circulation, saying the decision was taken in consultation with the central bank and followed due process.