Even as the embers of the Hathras incident continue to smoulder, yet another incident of a Dalit woman being gangraped and killed in Balrampur district has taken place

Amnesty International shutting down its operations in India after its bank accounts were frozen “has received attention at the highest levels” of the US government, according to a senior State Department official, saying the US is committed to the health and vibrancy of civil society

The Indian Navy has conducted exercises with Russia and Quad countries - an informal security forum comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia - in a message to China on getting a wider footprint in the Indo-Pacific region

With COVID-19 set to enter its ninth month in India after the country reported its first confirmed case in Kerala on January 30, there is a likelihood of increased transmission of the novel coronavirus virus during the winter months, health experts warned on Wednesday

For the first time after 1947, children of Kashmiri women, married outside the Union Territory (UT) would soon be entitled to all benefits otherwise enjoyed by the permanent residents

Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Himachal Pradesh Saturday to inaugurate the 9.02-km long horseshoe-shaped single-tube, two-lane tunnel -- one of India's strategically most important infrastructure projects beneath the majestic Rohtang Pass --  it is not only considered a marvel of engineering motorways, but a dream of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and named after him, that has been completed after 10 years of sheer hard work by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) with an outlay of Rs 3,200 crore

A Special CBI court hearing the Babri mosque demolition case of December 6, 1992, acquitted all the 32 accused - including former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani - on Wednesday saying it was spontaneous and not a planned move. The demolition had triggered riots across India and inflamed Hindu-Muslim tensions

The demand for dishwashers in India also saw a sudden spike as COVID-19 restricted movement of domestic helps, leading many brands to ask for more supplies

After successfully installing and running free-to-use luxury public toilets with cafes attached to them in Telangana, a Hyderabad-based start-up is now building its innovative Loo Cafes on the banks of the picturesque Dal Lake in Srinagar

India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday launched a startup challenge to achieve self-reliance in the military sector under the 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' campaign

The Soviets used an Indian newspaper in 1983 to spread disinformation that the AIDS virus had been invented by the US military as a "biological weapon to kill black and gay men" and this echoed for decades

Airline major Lufthansa said on Tuesday that it will cancel all planned flights between Germany and India from September 30 to October 20

US President Donald Trump has questioned India's COVID-19 figures, saying India does not give a “straight count” on the deaths caused by the disease

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, Gavi and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will accelerate the manufacture and delivery of up to 100 million doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines for India and low-and middle income countries

A sudden drop in the number of active cases of COVID-19 in India has raised some hope among the health fraternity, albeit with a caution that the country must observe this trend for at least two weeks before it can conclude that the COVID-19 plateau is over and the downward trend is for real in the country