The World Health Organization on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flucaused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal

India will focus on finding solutions to the border issues with China that has long strained ties between the neighbouring countries, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said yesterday after assuming charge for a second straight term.

Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur yesterday, wounding two people, but the leader was not with them at the time, officials said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled his coalition government after a surprise election setback lost his Hindu-nationalist party an overall majority.

Trinamool Congress lawmaker Sagarika Ghose today said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee switched off all her lights and sat in darkness at her home during the entire swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi and central ministers on Sunday evening

India's heatwave is the longest ever to hit the country, the government's top weather expert said Monday as he warned people will face increasingly oppressive temperatures

Assuming charge a day after being sworn in for his third term, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today signed his first file authorizing the release of funds amounting to Rs 20,000 crore under a special existing scheme which is aimed at benefitting around 9.3 crore farmers

Narendra Modi was yesterday sworn in as India’s prime minister for a record-equalling third consecutive term. He will lead the 71-member BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

At least nine pilgrims have been killed and 33 others have been injured when their bus, reportedly attacked by terrorists, plunged into a gorge in Jammu & Kashmir’s Reasi district.

India’s Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister yesterday for a third straight term, a rare feat that will also come with new challenges as the populist leader is forced to rely on allies to form a government. Here are some key issues Modi will need to tackle in office.

At least ten people died and over 30 were injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to a temple plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district today after coming under fire by rebels, ANI reported

Modi, 73, was administered the oath of office by India's President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi

The West Bengal CID, probing the murder of Bangladesh MP Md Anwarul Azim, today recovered bones, suspected to be those of the lawmaker, from the bank of a canal in the Kashipur area of North 24 Parganas district, a senior officer said

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will be present at today's swearing-in ceremony for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports NDTV

Once shunned and now eagerly courted by the West, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has steered his country away from its secular traditions and towards the Hindu-first politics he has championed for decades

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take the oath of office on Sunday for a third term in power alongside coalition allies after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated to lead India’s opposition in parliament yesterday after an election result that rescued his party from the political wilderness.

Narendra Modi will take oath as India’s Prime Minister for the third successive term tomorrow, as his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally presented its claim to the president yesterday to form a government.

An Indian court yesterday granted bail to opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in the latest of several defamation cases brought against him for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi or his party of corruption.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party lost a third of its rural parliamentary constituencies in last month’s election, a voter analysis shows, reflecting discontent in the countryside over lack of jobs and high inflation.