Information and Broadcasting Adviser of the interim government Nahid Islam today said India has shown "inhumanity' by opening a dam without prior notice causing foods in Bangladesh

At least 10 people were killed and nearly 33,000 rendered homeless in landslides and "unprecedented" flooding triggered by incessant heavy rains in the India's north eastern state Tripura, where the water level of all major rivers has crossed the danger mark, an official statement said today

The West Bengal government has transferred the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, along with two senior officials, amid escalating protests over the alleged rape and murder of a doctor on the college premises.

Points to heavy rainfall as primary cause, says it is sharing information with Bangladesh

A major fire and explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical factory in Atchutapuram in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring 33 others

Internet services were cut off and schools were closed for a second straight day in a town near India’s financial capital Mumbai yesterday, as protests over the alleged sexual abuse of two, four-year old girls intensified, media said.

At least 15 people were killed in an explosion at a pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state today, a district government official said

Kolkata Police has suspended three officers in connection with vandalism at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last week, officials said

India's Supreme Court today said it took suo motu (voluntary) cognisance of the rape and murder case of a postgraduate doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata because it raises systemic issues regarding safety of doctors across India

India's Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday the setting up of a national task force of doctors to make recommendations on safety at their work place, days after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor sparked nationwide protests

India has ordered heightened alert along its border with Bangladesh and Pakistan to keep a check on incoming people for possible symptoms of Mpox, which has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization

Thousands of Indian junior doctors yesterday refused to end protests over the rape and murder of a fellow medic, disrupting hospital services nearly a week after they launched a nationwide action demanding a safer workplace and swift criminal probe.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine on August 23, at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

An officer from the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed in action after terrorists fired on a patrol team in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur yesterday.

India’s Supreme Court, on its own, has taken up the rape-murder case of the Kolkata doctor that has shocked the country and thrown the medical fraternity in a turmoil.

Indian doctors held a nationwide strike yesterday, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women.

The shutdown, which began at 6 am (0030 GMT), will cut off access to elective medical procedures and out-patient consultations in the world's most populous nation

India will hold provincial elections in the Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir from September 18, the Election Commission said yesterday, the first regional polls there in a decade and five years after New Delhi scrapped the region’s special autonomy.

Indian doctors stepped up nationwide protests and strikes yesterday after the rape and murder of a colleague, a brutal killing that has focused outrage on the chronic issue of violence against women.

After a decade's gap, fresh elections to the legislative assembly in India’s Jammu and Kashmir will be held in September-October, setting the stage for the return of a popular government