India's Supreme Court today upheld the validity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's action to ban high-denomination currency notes over six years ago saying there was no flaw in the process of deciding to ban high-value currency notes.

At least nine people were killed and 15 were left injured after a luxury bus and a sports utility vehicle (SUV) collided in Gujarat's Navsari district today.

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani yesterday secured a majority stake in leading news broadcaster NDTV, finalising a hostile takeover that has sparked press freedom fears in the world’s biggest democracy.

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani on Friday secured a majority stake in leading news broadcaster NDTV, finalising a hostile takeover that has sparked press freedom fears in the world's biggest democracy. Adani, 60, is the world's third-richest person, with an estimated net worth of $130 billion and interests ranging from Australian coal mines to India's busiest ports. He is also seen as a close acolyte of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, often publicly supporting his policies. His business empire first began buying up NDTV shares in August, a move its founders Prannoy and Radhika Roy said had come without their involvement or consent. But after months of negotiations, the Roy family agreed to sell most of their remaining equity, and the Adani Group said in a Friday stock market disclosure that its subsidiary RRPR had bought a 27.26 percent stake in the company. The latest purchase gives Adani's conglomerate a 64.71 percent stake in NDTV, renowned for inviting government critics and its hard-hitting reporting in a TV news landscape dominated by pro-Modi coverage. Adani has pledged to guarantee the channel's editorial independence but also told the Financial Times last month that journalists should acknowledge when the government was performing well. "Independence means if government has done something wrong, you say it's wrong," Adani told the British broadsheet. "But at the same time, you should have courage when the government is doing the right thing every day. You have to also say that." Under Modi, India has slipped 10 places in the Reporters Without Borders global press freedom ranking and is now 150 out of 180 surveyed countries. Critical reporters often find themselves behind bars and hounded on social media by supporters of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Adani this year overtook fellow Indian Mukesh Ambani to become Asia's richest man, behind France's luxury goods mogul Bernard Arnault and Tesla boss Elon Musk. But his group's growth into capital-intensive businesses has raised alarm, with analysts from Fitch Group's CreditSights warning in August that it was "deeply overleveraged".

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraben passed away at a hospital in Ahmedabad city today at the age of 99.

At least seven people have died in a stampede at a rally in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police officials said.

India may see a surge in Covid-19 cases in January and the coming 40 days are going to be crucial, health ministry sources said yesterday citing the pattern of previous outbreaks.

India’s pharmaceuticals regulator has begun inspecting some drug factories across the country, the health ministry said yesterday, as it tries to ensure high standards after an Indian company’s cough and cold syrups were linked to deaths in Gambia.

Low temperatures and fog in New Delhi hit air and rail movement yesterday morning as a cold wave gripped the Indian capital with minimum temperatures dipping as low as 5.6 degrees Celsius (42 F).

When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach.

The possible sinking of a boat in recent weeks with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board could make 2022 one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the community, a UN agency said, as refugees try to flee desperate conditions in Bangladesh camps.

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi today, sources said..The 63-year-old minister is now undergoing treatment at a private ward of the hospital where she was taken around 12:00pm (local time), reports our New

Amidst allegations, Byju's has recently taken the step to not sell their courses to poorer families.

A cross-country march led by Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi reached the capital New Delhi yesterday, hoping to regain some of the popularity it lost to the ruling Hindu-nationalist party.

India is planning to make a Covid-19 negative test report mandatory for passengers arriving from countries with a high number of cases, the country's health minister said during an interview with broadcaster NewsX on Friday.

Sixteen soldiers were killed in India’s remote northeast yesterday when the military truck transporting them skidded down a steep mountain slope and crashed, the army said.

Sixteen Indian army men died today after a truck carrying them skidded down a steep slope and fell into a gorge in the north eastern state of Sikkim, the army said in a statement.

India has started random Covid-19 sampling on incoming international air travellers but said there is no plan yet to stop flights from countries which reported new cases of the virus.

Up to 20 people have died of hunger or thirst on a boat carrying ethnic Rohingya that has been stranded at sea for two weeks off India’s coast,

India will start random sample testing for coronavirus at airports for international passengers arriving from China and other countries in view of the recent surge in cases in China, Japan, South Korea, and some other parts of the world, official sources said today.