India’s Rahul begins march to boost opposition

India’s main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday began a new cross-country march from a troubled northeastern state, aiming to generate political momentum to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in general elections due by May.
14 January 2024

India protests UK diplomat’s visit to PoK

India said yesterday it had lodged a protest over a senior British diplomat’s visit to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, saying the trip this week had infringed on India’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
13 January 2024

India’s FM to visit Iran

India’s foreign minister is scheduled to visit Iran today for a two-day trip, following Western air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Tehran-backed group’s attacks on
13 January 2024

Debris found after 7 years

More than seven years after an Indian Air Force An-32 aircraft with 29 personnel on board went missing over the Bay of Bengal, its wreckage was found in the sea about 310km off Chennai, the India Defence Ministry said yesterday.
12 January 2024

India's longest bridge on Arabian Sea inaugurated

India's longest bridge covering a distance of 16.5km, a major part of it over the Arabian Sea, was inaugurated today in the country's financial hub Mumbai by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
12 January 2024

Rename West Bengal as Bangla, Mamata asks Modi

The chief minister said if two states having the same name of Punjab could be there in India and Pakistan, a country named Bangladesh and a state named Bangla could also co-exist
12 January 2024

BJP sets up panel to recruit opposition MPs

Having set itself a mammoth target of winning 400 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections, India’s ruling party BJP is looking at all avenues, including bringing in leaders from other parties, to achieve it, sources have told NDTV.
10 January 2024

Send more tourists

Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu yesterday urged China to send more tourists to the island nation amid a massive boycott campaign in India over derogatory remarks made by his ministers against PM Modi.
9 January 2024

Congress, AAP start seat-sharing talks on positive note

The Congress announced that it will contest the Lok Sabha elections with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) even though the first round of seat sharing talks between the two parties remained inconclusive yesterday.
8 January 2024

Indian agency suspends flight bookings to islands

One of India’s largest travel platforms suspended flight bookings to the tourism-dependent Maldives yesterday after disparaging social media posts against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embittered relations between the South Asian neighbours.
8 January 2024

India’s top court quashes early release of 11 men

India’s top court yesterday quashed the early release of 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during riots in Gujarat state in 2002, a lawyer in the case said.
8 January 2024

India congratulates PM Hasina on election win

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has congratulated Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her election victory on behalf of the Government of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
8 January 2024

2002 Gujarat riots: Indian SC cancels release of 11 men convicted of raping pregnant woman

In a blow for the BJP government in Gujarat, India's Supreme Court today quashed the release of 11 men who were jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant woman and murdering her relatives during communal riots in the western Indian state in 2002.
8 January 2024

Maldives suspend 3 ministers for posting against India, Modi

Maldives today suspended three of its ministers over derogatory remarks made against India and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he posted about the pictures of his recent trip to Lakshadweep island on X, local newspaper Atoll Times reported
7 January 2024

India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission enters final orbit

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. 
6 January 2024

Adani reclaims Asia’s richest mantle after scandal

India’s Gautam Adani once again became Asia’s richest man yesterday, according to a Bloomberg index of the world’s billionaires, a year after allegations of market manipulation hammered his conglomerate’s stock prices.
5 January 2024

President of Maldives to visit China Jan 8-12

The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, will pay a state visit to China from January 8 to 12, the Chinese foreign ministry said in statement yesterday.
5 January 2024

India's Adani reclaims Asia's richest mantle after scandal

India's Gautam Adani once again became Asia's richest man today, according to a Bloomberg index of the world's billionaires, a year after allegations of market manipulation hammered his conglomerate's stock prices
5 January 2024

Liberian-flagged vessel with 15 Indian crew hijacked near Somalia

A merchant ship, with 15 Indian crew members, was hijacked last evening near Somalia's coast, ANI reported today quoting Indian military officials
5 January 2024

Election domestic affair of Bangladesh: India

India today reiterated that the upcoming election in Bangladesh is a "domestic affair of that country"
4 January 2024