At least 40 construction workers were trapped Sunday after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India, with rescuers scrambling to reach them beneath piles of debris.

India and the US yesterday discussed the recent political developments in Bangladesh ahead of the national polls at a high-level meeting in New Delhi.

India and the United States announced progress on key defence deals and said they would expand their growing partnership in the face of geopolitical challenges as their top diplomats and senior ministers met yesterday.

New Delhi plans for the first time to make rain to try improve air quality in the city, which is the world's most polluted capital and has been gripped by smog for a week.

Two of five Indian states due to elect new legislatures this month began voting yesterday, a big test of Narendra Modi’s chances of winning a third term in a national election due by May.

Two of five Indian states due to elect new legislatures this month began voting on Tuesday, a big test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's chances of winning a third term in a national election due by May

New Delhi will restrict the use of private vehicles for a week in a bid to offer residents some respite from the toxic smog choking the megacity, authorities announced yesterday.

Authorities in India’s smog-ridden capital New Delhi yesterday extended an emergency schools closure by a week, with no signs of improvement in the megacity’s choking levels of pollution.

India’s capital New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze yesterday and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index (AQI) plummeted to the “severe” category. 

World's most polluted city again

India’s cyber security unit is investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of “state-sponsored attackers”, media reported yesterday.

India's cyber security agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from Apple AAPL.O, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said relations between Dhaka and New Delhi are consistently "touching new heights" as he inaugurated two rail links and a power project through video conference along with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

They also inaugurated Khulna-Mongla Port Rail Line; and Unit-II of Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant

Armed militants shot dead a senior police officer and wounded two others in separate attacks in India’s Manipur yesterday, officials said, the latest episodes of violence in the restive state where ethnic clashes have killed at least 180 people this year.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of trying to hack into senior opposition politicians’ mobile phones,

India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in connection with an excise policy-linked money-laundering case on November 2, official sources said last night

India’s foreign minister yesterday said the country would “make all efforts” to secure the release of eight ex-navy personnel sentenced to death by a court in Qatar, reportedly for spying for Israel.

India's Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has "strongly opposed" India's abstention on the voting on the recent UN resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict and said that while her party unequivocally condemned Hamas' attacks, the tragedy is compounded with the Israeli state now focused on exacting revenge from a population that is largely as helpless as it is blameless.

India’s Enforcement Directorate today arrested senior West Bengal minister and Trinamool Congress leader Jyotipriya Mallick, a day after searching his residence in Kolkata's Salt Lake area, in connection with an alleged multi-crore-rupee ration distribution scam in the state