India News Desk
Exclusive reporting, updates, and deep analysis from India (50 articles).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Bharatiya Liberal Party (BLP) President, Dr. Munish Kumar Raizada, has announced to contest from New Delhi Constituency (AC-40) in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Election 2025. He will contest against the Former Delhi CM and AAP Convener Arvind Kejri...
28 vegetable sellers test corona positive in Agra
The increasing number of coronavirus cases, in the past several days, 28 vegetable vendors have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city of Taj, Agra, Uttar Pradesh. However, it is yet to be confirmed how they have contracted the virus but contact...
India: Barber shot dead for refusing to give haircut amid lockdown
A barber in Bihar, India was shot dead by angry villagers after he refused to give them a haircut and shave, citing lockdown restrictions. Police said a group of villagers reached the home of barber Dinesh Thakur, 40, in Banka district last Saturd...
Singapore court jails Indian-origin man for abusing police
An Indian-origin man was sentenced to seven months in prison here on Wednesday for verbally abusing police and safe-distancing enforcement officers who were urging compliance with COVID-19 measures. Ravi Sinathamby Subramaniam, 53, had pleaded gui...
Indians in UAE unhappy with Modi govt’s repatriation plans
Indians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have voiced concerns about a “massive” operation announced by New Delhi to bring home some of the hundreds of thousands of nationals stranded by coronavirus restrictions. “It is just propaganda,” said Isha...
Man From Chicago Launches First Halal Angels Network To Promote Innovation Entrepreneurship & Startups To Tap $5 Trillion, Halal Consumer Market
Launched World’s First Halal Angels Network to promote Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Startups to tap $5 trillion, Halal consumer market. “The areas of interest for investments would be future technologies (Blockchain, Fintech AI, etc), Modest Fas...
Toxic gas leak at Indian chemical plant kills at least 11 and hospitalizes hundreds
A gas leak at a chemical factory in south-east India has killed at least nine people, including two children, and led to hundreds being taken to hospital, with fears the death toll could grow. The gas escaped out of tanks at a complex owned by Sou...
Amit Shah Dismisses Rumours Surrounding His Health
Days after several rumours began to spread regarding the health status of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he took to Twitter on Saturday to dismiss the conspiracy theories being floated regarding his ill-health. Home Minister Amit Shah informed peo...
Indian migrant deaths: 16 sleeping workers run over by train
Indian officials have ordered an investigation after 16 people were run over by a freight train in the state of Maharashtra. The dead were migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the tracks, while attempting to walk to a station, from where they ...
No Muslim Staff: Bakery Owner In Chennai Arrested After Posting Offensive Advertisement
A 32-year old Jain bakery owner was arrested in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday, for a blatantly Islamophobic advertisement. Allegedly, the Chennai-based man was selling his products with the words, “made by Jains on orders, no Muslim sta...
Covid-19 Death Toll Rises to 2,293, Cases Climb to 70,756 in India: Union Health Ministry
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,293 and the number of cases climbed to 70,756 in the country on Tuesday, registering an increase of 87 fatalities and 3,604 cases in the last 24 hours since Monday 8am, according to the Union health ministr...
Coronavirus: India targets small businesses in economic bailout
India has announced plans to spur small and medium businesses as part of a $264bn (£216bn) economic package. These include an emergency credit line of collateral-free loans worth $40bn to to “resume business activity and safeguard jobs” in the wak...
COVID-19: Indian Railways to cancel tickets for travel till June 30 on regular trains
The Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled all train tickets booked for travel on or before June 30, even as the country prepares itself for relaxation in restrictions at the end of the third phase of the lockdown, PTI reported. Train services for ...
Kerala now confirms third case of coronavirus, patient had returned from China's Wuhan
India on Monday confirmed its third coronavirus case, with another Kerala student being the target of the newly surfaced virus, who had a travel history from Wuhan, confirmed Indian authorities. The medical student is in an isolation ward at a dis...
Delayed survey data blurs India’s coronavirus picture
India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its population because of poor Chinese testing kits, a member of a national task force said, complicating a decision on opening up from a lockdown. The kits w...
India: Truck crash kills 23 workers going home amid lockdown
LUCKNOW: At least 23 people were killed and 35 injured when a truck crammed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown crashed in northern India on Saturday. The accident occurred before daybreak, when th...
Firing At Gate Of Jamia Millia Islamia University
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has registered an FIR in connection with the shooting incident that took place near Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday night. ACP Jagdish Yadav said, "Statements have been recorded. On their basis, FIR has been r...
Mumbai hospitals: Near collapse as no beds, packed morgues
Packed morgues, bodies in wards, patients forced to share beds and medical workers run ragged: Mumbai’s war against coronavirus has pushed the Indian city’s hospitals to breaking point. Ravi, 26, had to change his mother’s diapers himself as she l...
Shabana Azmi returns home from hospital: Thank you all for your prayers
New Delhi: After being admitted to the hospital for almost 12 days, actor Shabana Azmi was discharged on Saturday. The actor was admitted to the hospital after she met with a road accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on January 18. After reachin...
Pandemic Dead Give New Delhi Gravedigger Sleepless Nights
Death had not fazed gravedigger Mohammed Shamim up to now, but since the grip of the coronavirus crisis has tightened in New Delhi, a shiver runs up even his spine each time he sees a hearse pull up at the cemetery he tends. “I’ve been burying the...
Trump’s use of malaria drug likely to be welcomed in India
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s declaration that he was taking an antimalarial drug of dubious effectiveness to help fend off the coronavirus will likely be welcomed in India. Trump’s previous endorsement of hydroxychloroquine catalyzed a tremendous...
Cyclone Amphan wreaks havoc in Bangladesh, India
Super cyclone Amphan, the most powerful cyclone to hit Bangladesh and eastern India in more than 20 years tore down homes flooded streets and claimed the lives of more than a dozen people as authorities continue to assess damage. Authorities began...
Nirbhaya Rape Convicts Won't be Hanged Today as Court Postpones Execution Warrant Till Further Orders
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday stayed till further orders the execution of the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder convicts, which was earlier scheduled to take place on February 1. Additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana had reserved the order in...
PUBG addiction: Teenager dies of cardiac arrest while playing PUBG
A 16-year-old boy reportedly died of cardiac arrest while playing the highly popular online game PUBG on his mobile phone for six hours at a stretch in Erode city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The boy identified as Satish Kumar became agitate...
Sedition charges against Indian primary school over a play on contentious citizenship law
NEW DELHI: Indian police have launched a sedition investigation against a primary school over a play that allegedly criticised a contentious citizenship law, officials said on Wednesday. There have been widespread street demonstrations against the...
India: Woman throws acid on stalker
A young man sustained burn injuries when a 20-year-old woman threw acid on him in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning as he had allegedly been stalking her. Rohit Yadav, 24, got burn injuries on his nape, back, chest and left should...
Coronavirus: China locks down two cities at outbreak epicentre
BEIJING: China put on lock-down on Thursday two cities at the epicentre of a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic. The Huanggang lo...
Indian-American Faces Murder Charges In US Car Crash That Killed 3 Teens
New York: An Indian-American man is facing multiple murder charges after he intentionally rammed his vehicle into a car ferrying six teenagers in California, killing three of them and injuring the rest before fleeing, according to US media reports...
Scolded by mom for damaging mobile, teenage girl ends life
A teenage girl in Kolkata hanged herself after she was scolded by her parents for damaging her mother's mobile phone, police said on Tuesday. She died on way to hospital. The 16-year-old girl, who was scheduled to appear for her secondary examinat...
Kerala Mosque Hosts Hindu Wedding, Chief Minister Extends Wishes
Dubai: In an incident that showcases the solidarity of the state, a Hindu couple solemnized their wedding at a mosque, on Sunday. When the bride-to-be's mother, bogged down by financial constraints, was unable to raise money for the rituals expect...
Satish Kaushik Says Shabana Azmi is Much Better
Filmmaker Satish Kaushik says veteran actress Shabana Azmi, who was injured in a road accident, is doing much better. Kaushik visited Azmi at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) in Andheri on Sunday. “Shabana ji is under strict observat...
Shabana Azmi injured in a car accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway
Actor Shabana Azmi suffered several injuries after her car met with an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Saturday afternoon. According to the Khalapur police, the incident occurred around 4 p.m. when Ms. Azmi was heading to Khandala, just...
Nirbhaya Case: Feb 1 Hanging Unlikely If Convicts File Curative, Mercy Petition
Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora on Friday issued fresh death warrants against the four convicts in the case after being informed by Tihar Jail authorities that the mercy plea of convict Mukesh has been dismissed by India’s president. ...
Nirbhaya's rapist-killers to hang at 7am on January 22: Court
NEW DELHI: An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student who later came to be known as Nirbhaya — the fearless. Six people were originally ...
When Bollywood Joined Hands to Protest JNU Attack
When Bollywood Joined Hands to Protest JNU Attack
Street dancers Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor reach Delhi for ‘Illegal Weapon 2.0’ song launch
After dropping chartbusters 'Muqabla' and 'Garmi', makers of dance-drama 'Street Dancer 3D' released the ultimate battle song of the movie – 'Illegal Weapon 2.0'. Above: Shraddha Kapoor and Varun Dhawan at the launch of the song in New Delhi.
Had to escape from JNU campus
New Delhi: Shashi Bhushan Samar, a visually challenged student and the face of fee hike protest, on Monday, said that he escaped the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening during the violence after jumping off the hostel room f...
After Kota, 111 Infant Deaths At Gujarat Hospital In December, last year
Ahmedabad: As many as 111 infants died at a civil hospital in Gujarat's Rajkot district in December last year, an official said on Sunday. This comes against the backdrop of 100 deaths reported last month at a state-run hospital at Kota in Rajasth...
Violence in JNU, masked goons attack students
New Delhi: A masked mob on Sunday entered the Sabarmati Hostel on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus and assaulted several students and professors with sticks and rods. "I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I am bleeding...
India citizenship law: 100,0000 attend Hyderabad protest
Hyderabad: Residents of India’s Hyderabad city have joined nationwide protests to reject the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act introduced by goverment Hundreds of thousands of protesters, carrying national flags, black flags and placards, th...
BJP digs up old Cong manifesto to highlight its CAA flip-flop
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday presented the Congress party’s manifesto for the 2018 Rajasthan assembly election where it had promised citizenship to displaced refugees from Pakistan. BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao held ...
New Delhi Battery Factory Fire Kills
NEW DELHI: A factory caught fire and collapsed in the Indian capital Thursday, causing injuries to several people, including some fire officials. A fire official said three people were rescued from the debris of the building in Peera Garhi area in...
Jamia students, locals ring in new year with national anthem
New Delhi: People across Delhi witnessed a different kind of New Year's Eve at Jamia Millia Islamia as the students along with the locals protesting against CAA and NRC at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh rang in 2020 singing the National Anthem. In videos do...
Good Newwz Movie Review
Varun Batra (Akshay Kumar), a hot-shot businessman dealing in cars, is trying to have a baby with his wife Deepti Batra (Kareena Kapoor Khan). Deepti is over-enthusiastic about the kid and pressurizes Varun to try harder. They decide to go for IVF...
Mental illness, depression among celebs in focus after TV actor Kushal Punjabi's suicide
When stars are in front of the camera or when they post on social media, their lives seem like the epitome of glamour. Yet, there’s a stark contrast when you look at the other side of showbiz — the daily struggles and the unpredictable nature of t...
DELHI FREEZES AT 2.4 DEGREE CELSIUS, COLDEST DAY OF SEASON
New Delhi: The national capital on Saturday recorded its coldest day of the season as the minimum temperature plummeted to 2.4 degrees Celsius in the morning, officials said. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and affecting air traff...
Bihar: 4-year-old girl raped in Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man in Muzaffarpur and has been admitted in a critical condition to Shrikrishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH), said Bihar Police on Friday. The accused identified as Aza...
Ivanka Trump Praises Girl Who Cycled 1,200 km with Injured Father
Washington: US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump has praised 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari, who cycled down 1200 km carrying her ailing father during the nationwide lockdown in India, terming her act as a “be...
India wilts under heatwave as temperature hits 50 degrees Celsius
NEW DELHI: India has witnessed its hottest May day in nearly two decades with temperatures in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Scorching weather is a growing menace in the world’s second-most populous nation, and the Un...
PM Modi had no conversation with Trump over border standoff with China: Officials
NEW DELHI: An Indian government source said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not established contact with US President Donald Trump about its military standoff with China, after Trump suggested Modi was upset about border tension. T...