New York/IBNS: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, addressing a large gathering at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, delivered an emphatic message on the place of Muslims in India, saying that a Hindu who believes there should be no Muslims in Bharat “will not remain Hindu.”
Kolkata/IBNS: A Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata is set to chronicle the political journey of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, who assumed office after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the state for the first time in May 2026.
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid backlash over its proposed guidelines for Durga Puja committees, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has issued a clarification on its recommendations concerning West Bengal's biggest festival.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to continue dominating the Indian political landscape despite a decline in its projected seat share following the recent Gen Z protests, according to the latest India Today-CVoter Mood of the Nation survey.
Australia's High Commissioner to India, Philip Green OAM, shared a glimpse of his Raksha Bandhan celebration in India on X, posting a video of an Indian friend visiting him to tie a rakhi, the traditional thread associated with the festival.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic comes at a time when Central Asia is becoming increasingly important to India’s economic, security and connectivity calculations.
The parents of an Indian-origin woman, who was found dead in the US, have described the arrest of the accused as an "important breakthrough".
Mohan Bhagwat, the sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, will address roughly 5,000 people at Madison Square Garden's Infosys Theater today, the marquee stop on a three-nation outreach tour — the US, Canada and the UK — timed to the RSS's centenary year.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has issued a set of guidelines for Durga Puja organisers in West Bengal, urging them to follow traditional religious practices and uphold what it described as the sanctity and dignity of the festival.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday issued a stern warning to a section of students at Jadavpur University, declaring that his government would not tolerate what he described as “anti-national” activities on the campus.
Congress leader B Nagendra on Friday resigned from the Karnataka Cabinet, nearly a month after his re-induction, amid renewed BJP attacks over alleged corruption in the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
Penguin Random House India has rejected reports that it decided to abandon publication of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s much-anticipated memoir after she refused proposed editorial changes and deletions.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said 320 Indian nationals remain missing in flood-ravaged Nepal, while 21 rescued Indians have returned to New Delhi.
Noida/IBNS: A woman has been detained for allegedly abusing, threatening and assaulting security guards at a gated community in Greater Noida West after a video of the incident went viral on social media, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi Police have arrested a gym trainer who allegedly stabbed a 21-year-old model to death at her residence on Wednesday, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police have filed First Information Reports (FIRs) against Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and two other party leaders in connection with the scuffle that broke out between TMC leaders and police personnel at the party's Camac Street office on Thursday evening.
India has handed over the second consignment of 37.5 tonnes of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) material, medicines and food packets to Nepal to support its relief and rescue operations following devastating floods that have left more than 400 people dead.
Pakistan was so desperate to locate India's S-400 air defence systems during the May 2025 hostilities that it activated spies and sleeper cells inside India, according to Air Marshal (retd) Jeetendra Mishra, who headed the Indian Air Force's Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor.
Isha Foundation founder and spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru, broke down while speaking to followers at the foundation's camp in Saga, Tibet, after 80 members of an Isha group travelling on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra went missing following a flash flood near the Nepal-Tibet border.
As rescue and relief operations continue in Nepal following the flash flood tragedy in Rasuwa district, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said 290 Indian nationals remain uncontactable, while 84 Indians have so far been rescued.
A lavish 10-day holiday at Udaipur's iconic Oberoi Udaivilas allegedly ended with a Rs 5.74 lakh unpaid bill, after a Delhi man reportedly refused to pay at checkout.
Kolkata/IBNS: A confrontation broke out between Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee and Kolkata Police personnel on Thursday after a team of police officers and Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials arrived at his Camac Street office to remove TMC billboards.
Kanpur/IBNS: A two-engine training aircraft crashed in a field near the banks of the Ganges River in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday, killing both the pilot and co-pilot, media reports said.
Kanpur/IBNS: A training aircraft crashed in Kanpur on Thursday morning, killing both the pilot and co-pilot, media reports said.
Kanpur/IBNS: A private training aircraft crashed in Kanpur on Thursday morning, killing the pilot, Hindustan Times reported.
New Delhi/IBNS: A 21-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed by her gym trainer in West Delhi's Tilak Nagar on Wednesday, media reports said.
A boat carrying 21 labourers capsized in the Ganga near the Raghopur embankment in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Wednesday, leaving two workers missing. Nineteen labourers were rescued after the accident, officials said.
BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut has taken a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his call to “smash the patriarchy”, responding with a social media post centred on the slogan “Bharat Mata Ki Jai.”
New York/IBNS: In a notably more measured response than some of his earlier remarks, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has opposed the upcoming RSS event at Madison Square Garden, but stopped short of calling for the private gathering's cancellation, saying he was unsure whether the city had the legal authority to do so.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning the methodology proposed for collecting caste data in the upcoming census.
