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Pakistan’s army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa has called on arch rivals India and Pakistan to “bury the past” and move towards cooperation, a proposal towards New Delhi that follows an unexpected joint ceasefire announcement last month…

Thousands of women joined protests by farmers on the outskirts of Delhi on Monday to mark International Women’s Day, demanding the scrapping of new laws that open up agriculture produce markets to private buyers. Since December, many…

Police in northern India say they have arrested a man who beheaded his teenage daughter and carried her severed head to the village police station, a case that spurred calls for a new law against the so-called “honour killings”. The man…

Fourteen people are confirmed dead and at least 170 others missing after a part of a Himalayan glacier broke away in India, setting off a torrent of water, rock and dust down a mountain valley, officials said. “A total of 15 people have…

India's Union Minister,  Rajnath Singh,  inaugurated the 13th edition of Aero India Show on Wednesday. The event was held at Air Force station in Yelahanka, Bengaluru. Singh said that Aero India 2021 will display the vast…

Indian police and paramilitary have blocked roads leading to the capital, New Delhi to prevent protesting farmers from entering as the finance minister prepares to deliver the government’s annual budget in parliament. The security forces…

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi said protesters that stormed New Delhi’s Red Fort had caused “insult” to the country, his first public comments on a months-long farmers’ agitation that turned violent this week. Tens of thousands of…

Thousands of Indian farmers marched overnight to reinforce protesting colleagues camping out on the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, to press the government to withdraw three new farm laws that they say will hurt their livelihoods.…

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued fresh notices to make permanent a ban imposed on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps in June, according to Indian media reports. When it first imposed the ban,…

Leaders of India’s farmers’ union have rejected an offer from the Indian government to suspend contentious agricultural laws for 18 months and set up a committee to look into their concerns about the legislation that have triggered the…