Indian police have arrested nine Bangladeshis in West Bengal and Meghalaya on charges of entering India illegally
The Congress-Aam Aadmi Party alliance in Punjab faces its first test tomorrow as it goes to the Chandigarh mayoral election in a bid to unseat the BJP from key posts in the state
Imposing a fine of Rs five lakh on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Calcutta High Court judge Kaushik Chanda today recused himself from hearing her petition challenging the election of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari who defeated her in the assembly election in Nandigram.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gifts of sweet Haribhanga mangoes were handed over to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind today.
India’s digital platform, which is powering the “world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive” in the country, will soon be made available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.
Police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh today detained eight Bangladeshi nationals, who had allegedly entered India illegally, from a train.
India’s Supreme Court today ruled saying the federal government must pay compensation to the families of those who succumbed to Covid-19.
India will offer tourist visa, free of cost, to five lakh foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost the country’s travel and tourism sector battered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Eight Asiatic lions at Nehru Zoological Park in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have tested positive for SARS-CoV2 virus that is responsible for Covid-19 infections, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change said today.
Five people were killed in separate incidents of post-assembly poll violence and arson in various parts of West Bengal, including in Kolkata, since the results of the elections were declared on Sunday night.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who led her party to a landslide victory in West Bengal assembly elections, will be sworn in as Chief Minister for a third straight term on May 5 (Wednesday), party Secretary General Partha Chatterjee said today.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced a series of incentives to boost the availability of an adequate number of medical personnel to help tackle the devastating second wave of Covid-19.
Twenty-four patients, including 23 suffering from Covid-19, died in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar district due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital in the past 24 hours, officials said today.
A forum of scientists of the Indian government today termed “incorrect” a media report that suggested that they had cautioned in early March about the more contagious second wave of Covid-19 but no attention was paid to it.
“Eta Banglar joi. Banglar manusher joi. Bangla gota Bharat-ke Baanchiyechey,” West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee declared today after her party’s landslide victory in the state assembly elections.
West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee looks set to win a third term, the DMK is heading for victory in Tamil Nadu, the BJP is leading in Assam and the LDF in Kerala in the counting of votes for state polls, according to NDTV.
A sense of anguish, hopelessness and anger has settled over India, which is going through a second wave that has devastated families and is overwhelming the health infrastructure around the country.
At least 18 Covid-19 patients were killed as a fire ravaged a hospital in Bharuch in the western Indian state of Gujarat early today, police officials said.
