Supreme Court issued notice to Assam govt seeking its response on a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against it for violating its order that no demolition should take place across the country without the court’s prior permission

A seer and his Gau Dhwaj Sthapana Bharat Yatra entourage were stopped from entering Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland following fears of possible public unrest and protests against his campaign advocating a ban on cow slaughter across the northeastern...

The shutdown called by Kuki-Zo groups affected normal life in Manipur’s Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts last week, while fresh violence was reported from a village in Jiribam, officials said.

Supreme Court said the ongoing CBI probe into the rape-murder of a doctor and financial irregularities in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital could be expanded to include other medical institutions of West Bengal after it was alleged that there...

The Supreme Court rebuked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for filing a petition to transfer post-poll violence cases from West Bengal to another state.

Ending the 42-day logjam, agitating junior doctors called off their “cease work” protest in the wake of the rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar hospital in Kolkata and announced a partial resumption of work. The protesting doctors have...

Thirteen Chakma organisations in Mizoram, including political parties, sent a memorandum to PM Narendra Modi, urging his intervention to halt recent attacks on indigenous ethnic minorities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh.

India's northeastern state of Manipur has been placed on high alert after intelligence reports of a potential influx of 900 suspected Kuki militants from Myanmar, a senior security official said. An organisation that represents the Kuki community,...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the West Bengal government’s request to stop live streaming of the court proceedings in the case of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August...

Five weeks of protests triggered by the Aug 9 rape-murder at Kolkata's RG Kar hospital culminated in Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee yielding to the protesting junior doctors' demand for the removal of four top officials - Kolkata Police commissioner...