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Protests over a new citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses across India on Dec. 16 as critics said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with India's founding as a secular republic.   

A leader from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party was sworn in as chief minister of a key southern Indian state on May 17, despite lacking a majority, after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute bid to block the move.

Indian police opened a rape inquiry yesterday against a powerful lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party in a case that has cast a new spotlight on impunity enjoyed by the elite.

India and Russia are contemplating to create a 'green corridor' in order to boost bilateral trade ties.

A flyover under construction in the bustling Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on to moving traffic below, killing at least 14 people with as many as 150 people feared trapped, police said. 

The Indian government children's minister has proposed the introduction of mandatory tests to determine the sex of an unborn child in a bid to counter the disturbing levels of female foeticide.

Prenatal sex tests are officially illegal in India, a policy designed to stop so many unborn girls being aborted by parents desperate for a boy.

Kasturi Munirathinam’s right arm was cut off, allegedly by her employer, when she tried to escape from their house last week, where she was working as a domestic help.

Her family has stated that she was being tortured by her Saudi employers and her employers had been angered after she complained about the harassment she was facing, as BBC reports.

Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic Monday sent a message of condolences to Sumitra Mahajan, the speaker of the the lower house of the Indian parliament.

Her message was also addressed to Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, the Council of States, over the loss of life caused by the heat wave that has hit India.