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India aims to install the first part of an early warning system at some high-risk glacial lakes in the Himalayas next year, a senior official said yesterday, as the country responds to deadly floods this month that killed at least 60 people.

Seven journalists' groups in India today wrote a joint letter to President Droupadi Murmu drawing her attention to "the use of draconian laws against journalists"

India will soon install radiation detection equipment (RDE) at eight border crossing points along the land borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Nepal to prevent the trafficking of radioactive materials that may be used in making nuclear devices, officials said

The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea by NewsClick founder Prabir Purakayastha and the portal's human resources department head Amit Chakravarty challenging their arrest and subsequent remand in a case lodged under an anti-terror law

The first group of around 200 Indians, including students, returned home early today from war-hit Israel

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR for alleged violations of stringent Foreign Contribution Regulation (FCRA) Act by news portal NewsClick and carried out raids at two locations yesterday, officials said.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have handed over bodies of four Indian nationals, who were among those killed by the flash flood triggered by the glacial lake outburst in northeastern state of Sikkim, the Indian defence ministry said today.

Indian rescue teams are finding it difficult to reach flood-hit areas in the north-eastern state of Sikkim where more than 140 people are missing because the region is still experiencing bouts of heavy rain, officials said on Saturday

At least 40 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods this week in the Indian Himalayas, government officials told Reuters yesterday as rescuers searched for dozens missing for a second day.

Canada has moved out a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a media report yesterday.

A study done by India's Central Water Commission eight years ago warned the Sikkim government that most of the hydropower projects on the Teesta river are highly vulnerable to events like the disastrous glacial lake outburst that occurred in the northeastern state four days ago

Police believe that the mortar shell belonged to the army and was carried by floodwaters flowing down the hills of Sikkim following heavy rains

At least 40 people were killed after a glacial lake burst its banks and triggered flash floods this week in the Indian Himalayas, government officials told Reuters today as rescuers searched for dozens missing for a second day

At least seven people, including two minors, were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire swept through a residential building in Goregaon area of India's financial capital Mumbai today, a civic official said

At least two houses were torched in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Wednesday night in a fresh outbreak of violence.

India’s external affairs ministry yesterday said that India asked Canada to downsize its diplomatic presence in New Delhi as it wants to achieve “parity” with Ottawa, adding that “discussions on the matter are under way”.

Indian police expanded on Thursday an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of a news portal, accusing it in court of having sought to create an incorrect map of the country and also sabotage general elections in 2019

India today said it is engaged in talks with Canada on the issue of ensuring parity in its diplomatic presence in India, amidst a standoff over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation of New Delhi’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist

At least 18 people were killed and nearly 100 were missing today after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in northeast India to burst its banks