Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday chaired the 13th BRICS summit via video conferencing, saying that it was "an influential voice for rising economies"

One dose of vaccine is 96.6 per cent effective in preventing death and two Covid shots are 97.5 per cent effective, the government said today, citing data between April and August

The grey hull of the C-130 Super Herculese transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force came thundering down from an overcast sky as it landed in a village called Agarawa in Rajasthan, barely 50 km from the border with Pakistan

India will hold the G20 presidency from December 1, 2022, and will convene the G20 leaders' summit in 2023 for the first time, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday

In a move deemed historic, the Modi government today told the Supreme Court that women will be admitted into the National Defence Academy (NDA) for permanent commission into India's armed forces

India's Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday called on Muslim leaders in India to take a firm stand against fundamentalism and extremism

Challenging the BJP-led NDA with just months to go for local assembly elections in India's most politically important state, farm leaders driving the movement against the Modi government's agricultural reforms staged a major show of strength in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh Sunday, announcing in front of tens of thousands of farmers their plan to campaign against the ruling party

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Washington DC and New York in the last week of September, according to top Indian government sources quoted by The Indian Express

The US has reaffirmed “the strength of the defence relationship between the United States and India,” the only designated US major defence partner, as India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met several senior officials in Washington to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the region in the wake of what is widely viewed as a disastrous pullout of US troops from the country

Meeting under the shadow of Washington's retreat from Afghanistan, senior diplomats and defence officials of India and the US discussed the recent developments in the region and cooperation in counter-terrorism

A 200-strong Indian Army contingent will participate in a multi-nation military exercise in Russia from September 3 to September 16

Pro-Pakistan Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani died at the age of 92 at his home in Srinagar late on Wednesday evening

Organisations working to evacuate a group of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus from Afghanistan have claimed that the Taliban have promised "safe passage" for the minorities who want to visit India for the 400th birth anniversary (Gurpurab) celebrations of Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur this year, The Indian Express said

In the first publicised outreach of its kind, top Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police brass interacted with over 80 families of militants active in the Kashmir Valley Tuesday, urging them “guide their wards back into society”, The Indian Express said

Some Indian states where schools have opened amid concerns about a third wave of the Covid pandemic are seeing a rise in infections among children