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India’s space agency on Sunday said that the inaugural flight of a small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) failed to place two satellites into the targeted orbit. According to the Indian…

Sri Lanka has asked China to indefinitely delay a visit by a ship reported by Indian media to be a spy vessel, following intense pressure by the island’s northern neighbour,…

Congress leaders led by Priyanka Gandhi were detained here on Friday as they observed August 5 to mark the “death of democracy” in India. Staying subdued about the annexation of…

Police detained Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by dragging her into police vehicles along with other senior Congress leader from outside the party headquarters in Delhi on Friday as they were protesting…

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Friday detained from outside the party headquarters as she tried to lead a protest march towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence. Before getting…

India has offered to sell 18 light-combat aircraft (LCA) “Tejas” to Malaysia, the defence ministry said on Friday, adding that Argentina, Australia, Egypt, the United States, Indonesia, and the Philippines…

A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sealed the office of Congress-owned Young Indian in the ongoing money laundering investigation, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said this is an attempt…

At least 87 women have been hospitalised after a gas leak at an apparel manufacturing plant in India, local media reports said Wednesday. The workers complained of nausea and vomiting…

Indian Administrative Service officer, Moosa Raza, who served as Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, in his book ‘Kashmir: Land of Regrets,’ names Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the main…

The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Centre after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the official premises of its mouthpiece “The National Herald”, in connection with an alleged money laundering case.…

A private school in India is being investigated by police under a controversial religious conversion law for holding multifaith prayers that included the Islamic declaration of faith, an officer said…

Gujarat’s Education Department’s notification instructing schools to organise ‘Bharat Mata Pujan’ and lectures from August 1 is opposed by the Gujarat Rajya Prathmik Shikshak Sangh (GRPSS) and Jamiat Ulama Gujarat…

A special court on Saturday granted bail to four former Indian Air Force (IAF) officers in the AgustaWestland chopper deal corruption case after they appeared before it following summons issued…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been accused of encouraging the persecution of Muslims and other minorities by hardline Hindu nationalists since coming to power in 2014.…

Yang Huiyan is no longer the wealthiest lady in Asia due to the impact of China’s real estate crisis on the nation’s developers, including her Country Garden Holdings Co. It’s…

Pro-Khalistan secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has announced plans to hold the Khalistan Referendum on September 18th this year in Canada’s capital – a city known for hosting one…

Hinting that the ruling BJP government in Karnataka is preparing to emulate the Uttar Pradesh government’s model for dealing with miscreants, state Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan on Friday said that…

Indian and Chinese foreign ministers were to attend a regional conference in Uzbekistan on Friday, a day after New Delhi expressed concern over a Chinese survey ship’s planned visit to…

Renowned philosopher, linguist and cognitive scientist Prof Noam Chomsky has said that for Pakistan to start a new journey on the right track, first of all, it has to get…

India said on Thursday it was aware of reports about a Chinese vessel’s planned visit to Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port, built with money from Beijing, even as New Delhi tries…

Shiv Sena President and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday warned that democracy in India is at peril owing to the “monstrous ambitions” of the Bharatiya Janata Party…

Increasing tension, division of society on minority lines, unemployment and an uncertain future under the Modi regime has forced an unprecedented number of Indians to give up their citizenship, taking…

The Indian army is facing an alarming trend of suicide among its soldiers with 819 such incidents happened during the last five years. Apart from the Indian army, the Indian…

INDIA is such a complex country with its mosaic of ethnicities, belief systems, castes, sub-castes, regions, languages that are perpetually jostling to catch the eye, and so much else in…

Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has won a total of four seats in local body elections held in Madhya Pradesh. The party defeated the BJP on three out of…

Former Pakistani and Indian diplomats have urged the immediate resumption of long-stalled peace talks between the two nuclear neighbours to resolve a raft of disputes, mainly Jammu and Kashmir. On…

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday sent legal notice to the Congress and its senior leaders Pawan Khera, Jairam Ramesh, Netta D’Souza over their “malicious allegations” against her daughter and…

The farmer’s protest in India began initially with the sole aim of getting the new farm laws repealed. The disputed laws were the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and…

Over the past two decades, there has been a noticeable decline in women’s participation in the labor force in India. This is while Muslim women are at a further disadvantage…

IN the past decade or so right-wing populism swept the world — in Trump’s America, Modi’s India, Johnson’s Britain, Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Orbán’s Hungary and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. But Boris…