At least 31 people were killed after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India, police said yesterday.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah yesterday ruled out talks with Pakistan and said the Modi government will wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir to make it the “most peaceful place in the country” and assured the holding of fresh assembly polls in the area with “full transparency”.

An Indian-origin doctor, who was in Ukraine when the conflict with Russia broke out in February, has approached the Indian government -- in an unusual plea -- to help rescue his pet jaguar and panther he left behind when he was forced out of the war zone.

Twenty-five people were killed as a bus carrying a wedding party of nearly 50 persons fell into a gorge in north Indian state Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district yesterday (October 4, 2022), the Indian media reported today (October 5, 2022).

At least four mountaineers were killed yesterday in an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas, with around 25 others stuck in a crevasse, officials said.

The chief of the prison service in Indian Kashmir has been murdered, police said yesterday, as the powerful interior minister visited the disputed Himalayan region that has been riven by a decades-long insurgency.

Ten mountaineers died in an avalanche that swept a peak in the Himalayas in north Indian state of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district today, officials said.

India yesterday unveiled its first batch of locally-made attack helicopters, designed primarily for use in high-altitude areas like the Himalayas where its troops clashed with China in 2020.

A tractor pulling a trolley packed with religious pilgrims in India overturned and plunged into a pond, killing 26 and seriously injuring 16, officials said yesterday.

Indian President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi today (October 2, 2022) paid tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 153rd birth anniversary.

At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a tractor-trolley overturned and fell into a pond near a village in Kanpur district of India's Uttar Pradesh state yesterday (October 1, 2022).

The contest for Congress’ presidential poll was narrowed down yesterday to a straight square-off between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge after the rejection of the nomination paper of third candidate  K N Tripathi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today got a taste of the 5G telecom service, capable of providing ultra-high-speedinternet, by test driving a car in Sweden from New Delhi using the latest service.

India today ushered in 5G telecom era as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the much-awaited services at a telecom ministry event in New Delhi.

India abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution that would have declared Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid.

The stage was set yesterday for a three-way race for the post of President of India’s main opposition party Congress with senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor and KN Tripathi filing their nominations for the October 17 elections to decide who will replace Sonia Gandhi.

Shashi Tharoor today filed his nomination papers for the post of president of India's Congress party which appears set for a person from outside the Nehru-Gandhi clan after a long hiatus.

India’s top court yesterday upheld the right of a woman to an abortion up to 24 weeks into pregnancy regardless of marital status, a decision widely hailed by women’s rights activists.

In an important ruling, India’s Supreme Court today said both married and unmarried women are entitled to seek legal abortion of pregnancy up to 24 weeks and there should be no distinction between the two categories on this issue.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) today reported new findings of 26 ancient Buddhist temples, caves and other relics in Madhya Pradesh which date back from second to 11th centuries.