Indian PM Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is currently present in the International Space Station, via video conference. The astronaut said India looks grand and bigger from space than it is on the map.
In a significant diplomatic development, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh declined to endorse a joint declaration on terrorism at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting on Tuesday, objecting to the omission of the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
The International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) will celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama.
PM Narendra Modi will undertake a visit to Ghana from July 2-3, 2025, his first bilateral trip to the nation, officials said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O'Brien on Saturday slammed the Election Commission of India (ECI) for allegedly trying to enforce National Register of Citizens (NRC) through a voter verification drive in poll-bound Bihar and West Bengal.
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee has passed a bizarre remark while responding to the alleged rape of a 24-year-old law student by a ruling party functionary on the campus of a law college in Kolkata.
Kolkata/IBNS: The security guard of the South Kolkata Law College was on Saturday nabbed marking the fourth arrest in connection with the alleged rape of a 24-year-old law student on the campus, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: The First Information Report (FIR) in the South Kolkata Law College gangrape revealed shocking details of the victim student being brutalised in the union room by alumni and Trinamool Congress functionary Monojit Mishra when she went to fill out her form.
The Indian government on Friday said 4415 Indian nationals have been evacuated using 19 special evacuation flights, including 3 IAF C-17 aircraft, from conflict-hit Iran and Israel as part of Operation Sindhu.
New Delhi/IBNS: India has "categorically" rejected a "supplemental award" by an "illegal" Court of Arbitration, which has been supposedly set up over the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty.
Puri/IBNS: Over 500 devotees were injured and several others were critical during the annual Rath Yatra festival in Odisha’s Puri as a sea of crowds flocked to pull the chariot in the city, media reports said.
After the alleged gang-rape of a female law student in a south Kolkata college stirred a political storm in Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress has admitted that the prime accused is linked to the party's student wing but assured that it would not come in the way of him getting the strictest possible punishment.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi when he thanked him for ensuring the safe evacuation of Indian nationals.
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Qingdao, where they discussed supplying S-400 systems, Su-30 MKI upgrades, and procurement of critical military hardware, officials said on Friday.
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Belarus, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting in Qingdao and briefed them on Operation Sindoor.
At least three people were arrested for the alleged gangrape of a female law student inside a college in South Kolkata, triggering sharp reactions, only less than a year after the east Indian city witnessed massive protests over the rape and murder of a young doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
India and Vietnam discussed ways to enhance the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during the 13th Political Consultation and the 10th Strategic Dialogue on June 25.
The Indian government has flagged off the first consignment of 1 metric tonne of rose-scented litchi from Pathankot, Punjab, to Doha, Qatar on June 23.
Kolkata/IBNS: Three people have been arrested in connection with the gangrape of a law student at a college in Kolkata's Kasba area, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: India has called for a merit-based treatment of visa applications by its citizens as the United States has tightened the visa-screening process particularly for students, media reports said.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said a 'very big trade deal' might be signed with India soon.
A young woman, out to party with friends, died after falling from the 13th floor of an under-construction building in Bengaluru.
New Delhi/IBNS: Indian actress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kangana Ranaut has said Democratic primary for the New York's mayoral race Zohran Mamdani "sounds more Pakistani than Indian" and "is ready to wipe out Hinduism".
New Delhi/IBNS: Indian actress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Kangana Ranaut has said Democratic primary for the New York's mayoral race Zohran Mamdani "sounds more Pakistani than Indian" and "is ready to wipe out Hinduism".
New Delhi/IBNS: The black box data of the Air India aircraft that crashed near the Ahmedabad airport on June 12 has been recovered and downloaded, the government provided an update on Thursday, media reports said.
Qingdao/IBNS: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has refused to sign the joint statement at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting as the document did not mention the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack but carried Balochistan unrest.
Kolkata/IBNS: The mother of the minor girl who was killed in the bomb blast during the Kaliganj by-election vote counting has refused to accept the money offered by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Debra, Humayun Kabir.
New Delhi/IBNS: Chief Justice of India BR Gavai has held the Constitution as the "supreme" stating executive, legislature and judiciary work under it, media reports said.
A Navy headquarters staffer in Delhi has been arrested under charges of espionage for the Pakistani Intelligence agency ISI, media reports said.
Hyderabad/IBNS: Days after a man's body was found in a canal in Andhra Pradesh, the police have found that he was killed by his wife and her lover, which has struck uncanny similarities with the honeymoon murder mystery in Meghalaya that has left the nation shocked
