India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered the government and the national election body to explain decisions linked to a large-scale revision of voter rolls that prompted accusations of wrongdoing.

The demonstrations have been backed by key opposition parties, including the popular Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi yesterday said India had “hardly any choice” but to allow the aircraft carrying Sheikh Hasina to land in the country in August 2024, while saying the legal process concerning her return to Bangladesh is underway.

Indian police yesterday detained dozens of youth protesters in New Delhi during the second consecutive day of demonstrations demanding the chief election commissioner’s resignation over alleged voter-roll irregularities.

Hundreds of supporters of the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party protested in India’s financial capital Mumbai yesterday, kicking off a new nationwide campaign against changes to voter rolls they say benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing party.

An Indian pilot attacked by his co-pilot aboard a flight from the UAE to Israel yesterday said that he “could not let all those people die”, in his first public remarks after he helped stop the plane from crashing.

Mass detentions marked protests against the election chief as women took to the streets following the alleged gang-rape of a teenager

More than 2,200 houses were damaged and 154 animals died in rain-related incidents, report says

Passengers were asleep when bus caught fire near 33km marker; survivors describe desperate struggle to escape through smoke and flames

Leaders of the BRICS group of nations will meet on Saturday in the Indian capital of New Delhi for their annual summit

A sweeping safety crackdown by the Kolkata administration following a deadly hotel fire has left Bangladeshi patients and their families struggling to find affordable accommodation while seeking medical treatment in the city.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami orders scientific surveys, sensors and stronger early-warning systems

The Indian Army has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase Javelin anti-tank missile systems, the US Embassy in India said yesterday, without disclosing the value of the deal.

Bihar leaders urge Centre not to renew India-Bangladesh Ganges water-sharing treaty, says Indian media

Police are investigating possible electrical faults, negligence and fire-safety lapses following the blaze

A medical trip to India ended in tragedy when a hotel fire in central Kolkata early yesterday claimed the lives of four members of a family from Kushtia, leaving a child back home orphaned.

The hostility underscored a widening gulf between legacy networks and a growing ecosystem of independent digital outlets that many young Indians increasingly turn to for news

Lightning strikes killed at least 14 people in India’s mineral-rich eastern state of Jharkhand, police said, the latest deaths linked to annual monsoon rains that unleashed floods and landslides elsewhere.

Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have registered a case against the head of Meta India, Arun Srinivas, over multiple videos posted on the company’s Facebook platform that depicted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an “abusive manner,” a senior police officer said yesterday.

India has reiterated that Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has not been allowed to use Indian territory for any political activities.