India's highest court said Thursday (Feb 18) it was concerned about law and order after a student leader whose arrest for sedition has sparked major protests was attacked, while journalists and lawyers were heckled in court.
The students at India's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi are at war with the government. The confrontation started all of a sudden after Indian police arrested the student unions' president Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of sedition and declaring him "anti-national."
India's biggest nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century has spread across campuses after the arrest of a student accused of sedition, in the latest battle with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government over freedom of expression.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has hit out at prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen for his tweets condemning the Indian government for banning the firm's free Internet service to uphold net neutrality.
India Thursday said it would take legal action against the culprits involved into an assault on a Tanzanian woman in southern state of Karnataka.
Brunei and India have agreed to boost defense cooperation by conducting joint military exercises after the two countries signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs).
Try as it might, the Indian government appears to be unable to curb the country's love for gold.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reiterated India's commitment to build a peaceful Afghanistan.
Agitators in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh demanding reservation under backward quota Sunday evening resorted to arson and torched a police station, several vehicles and four bogies of a train, officials said.
The date for the forthcoming foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan is yet be finalized, India's External Ministry Affairs Ministry said Thursday.
Amid strained ties with India, the Nepalese government has proposed the formation of a four-member Eminent Persons' Group (EPG) to review the existing bilateral agreements and treaties including the Peace and Friendship Treaty signed between the two countries in 1950, officials said Thursday.
India and France Monday signed an MoU on purchase of Rafale fighter jets, the delayed multi-billion U.S. dollar arms deal between the two countries, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indian authorities have closed more than 90 websites linked with the Islamic State (IS) terror group in the western state of Maharashtra, officials said on Sunday.
India is looking to recalibrate its Middle East policy, taking into account the myriad changes afoot in the region.
India is set to make a strong bid to host its first ever G20 meet, seven years after the group began to play an active role in shaping international economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis.
Chinese internet search giant Baidu has set its eyes on India. The Nasdaq-listed company, which has a market cap of nearly $60 billion, is looking to buy "strategic stakes" in local startups such as restaurant search service provider Zomato, online movie and event tickets seller Bookmyshow and food retailer Big Basket.
The India-Pakistan foreign secretary talks, scheduled in Islamabad on January 15, seem uncertain. Even as national security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval courted controversy by purportedly indicating that the talks may be called off, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif quickly set up an inter-agency investigation team to probe the leads India provided it regarding the perpetrators of the Pathankot attack.
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