Prime minister Narendra Modi pitched for speedy release of 350,000 undertrial prisoners languishing in jails for years and requested the chief ministers and chief justices of high courts to resolve this issue on priority.

India will launch an open network for digital commerce (ONDC) as the government tries to end the dominance of US companies Amazon.com and Walmart in the fast-growing e-commerce market, a government document showed.

BJP president J P Nadda during his one-day to Gujarat said that the state is a “laboratory” for his party for matters pertaining to governance and party organization. “Gujarat is a laboratory of governance and party organization (for the BJP)....

The income-tax adjudication authority has passed a confiscation order under the amended Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act on immovable properties spread over 100 acres (worth over £7 million) in Igatpuri that belonged to fugitive...

The Indian government has approved the opening of a new Indian mission in Lithuania this year. The decision comes at a time when the Baltic nation is facing an unofficial trade embargo by Beijing for not following the One China policy.

Gujarat and Maharashtra celebrated their foundation day on Sunday, May 1, with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending greetings to people of the two states on the occasion. On this day in 1960, the former state...

The proposed “Hindu Mahapanchayat” at Dada Jalalpur village near Roorkee in Haridwar district was stopped and its supposed organiser, Swami Anand Swaroop, was put under preventive detention in the morning while trying to enter the village and...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) announced it had seized more than £550 million in assets from the Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, saying it had made illegal remittances to foreign entities and shown them as royalty payments.