Parmeshwar Bawa

Several UK citizens looking to visit India have been forced to postpone or cancel their trips after visa agents in the country received notices that they could no longer apply for tourist visas on behalf of the applicant.

Many Indians abroad, including analysts as well as those back home, highlight that such incidents illustrate India's political strife and point to the detrimental impact of religious tensions seeping into communities beyond the boundaries of India.

Estimating a timeline of the decline of COVID-19 in India, medical experts told NDTV that India could hope to see a "curb in the spread of coronavirus in early 2021", but cautioned that "returning to the pre-Covid era will take a long time".

Former President Pranab Mukherjee appears to have subtly thrown shade at his successor Ram Nath Kovind, who voted on May 12 along with the rest of Delhi in the sixth phase of the national election.

One of the biggest names in Indian cinema with appearances in more than 200 films, Kamal Haasan, whose latest movie releases Friday, enjoys causing a stir as an actor and now he is looking to shake up politics as well.

While accepting Niti Aayog boss Rajiv Kumar's challenge, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen intensified his argument regarding India's "quantum leap backwards since 2014". On the NDTV Dialogues, a fiery Sen added that the "leap is in the direction of social exclusion".

Amid concerns that India's landmark transparency reform, the Right To Information Act, could be facing serious challenges, the architect of the movement, Aruna Roy, recalled the uphill climb and the achievements in introducing the law in 2005.

In Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega cabinet reshuffle today, four ministers were promoted to Cabinet rank while nine new ministers took oath. The ministers met PM Modi and Amit Shah this morning at the PM's residence before their oath ceremony where the PM reportedly told them to perform and do a "good job". Government sources said PM Modi based...

Before nine new ministers took their oath today, they were told by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that they "have been chosen with great consideration, so now please perform."

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshaped his cabinet today, there was an outbreak of heartburn not just among ministers who were asked to resign, but for allies who made no gains today.

Three union ministers have quit the government, making it clear that a new cabinet will be formed, most likely on Sunday. However, sources in Tamil Nadu's ruling party, the AIADMK, say reports of them bagging cabinet spots are incorrect - they point out that the party has yet to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition or announce any formal a...

At least six people were injured at one of Hyderabad's largest hospitals after a car belonging to a doctor ran into a group of pedestrians near the hospital's parking lot. The six persons injured include at least two patients - one of them is a 95-year-old man, whose leg has been crushed. Another is a woman suffering from heart ailment, who came to...

Rescue workers, including those from the National Disaster National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), searched for more than a dozen people who are still feared trapped in a 117-year-old, five-storey building that collapsed in Mumbai this morning, two days after torrential rain lashed the city. 32 people have died and many, including four firemen, ar...

To sentence self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a judge flew into Rohtak in Haryana today on a government helicopter. After landing at a helipad near the prison where the "Guru of Bling" was incarcerated late on Friday night, Justice Jagdeep Singh was escorted with thick security cover to a makeshift prison created within the jail l...

The sentence against rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was declared by a special CBI court today. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison as he was announced guilty of raping two women in a 2002 case. Followers of Dera Sacha Sauda in Punjab, Haryana and other cities, burned down gas stations and train stations and torched vehicles after Dera...

Several UK citizens looking to visit India have been forced to postpone or cancel their trips after visa agents in the country received notices that they could no longer apply for tourist visas on behalf of the applicant.

Many Indians abroad, including analysts as well as those back home, highlight that such incidents illustrate India's political strife and point to the detrimental impact of religious tensions seeping into communities beyond the boundaries of India.

Estimating a timeline of the decline of COVID-19 in India, medical experts told NDTV that India could hope to see a "curb in the spread of coronavirus in early 2021", but cautioned that "returning to the pre-Covid era will take a long time".

Former President Pranab Mukherjee appears to have subtly thrown shade at his successor Ram Nath Kovind, who voted on May 12 along with the rest of Delhi in the sixth phase of the national election.

One of the biggest names in Indian cinema with appearances in more than 200 films, Kamal Haasan, whose latest movie releases Friday, enjoys causing a stir as an actor and now he is looking to shake up politics as well.

While accepting Niti Aayog boss Rajiv Kumar's challenge, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen intensified his argument regarding India's "quantum leap backwards since 2014". On the NDTV Dialogues, a fiery Sen added that the "leap is in the direction of social exclusion".

Amid concerns that India's landmark transparency reform, the Right To Information Act, could be facing serious challenges, the architect of the movement, Aruna Roy, recalled the uphill climb and the achievements in introducing the law in 2005.

In Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega cabinet reshuffle today, four ministers were promoted to Cabinet rank while nine new ministers took oath. The ministers met PM Modi and Amit Shah this morning at the PM's residence before their oath ceremony where the PM reportedly told them to perform and do a "good job". Government sources said PM Modi based...

Before nine new ministers took their oath today, they were told by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that they "have been chosen with great consideration, so now please perform."

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshaped his cabinet today, there was an outbreak of heartburn not just among ministers who were asked to resign, but for allies who made no gains today.

Three union ministers have quit the government, making it clear that a new cabinet will be formed, most likely on Sunday. However, sources in Tamil Nadu's ruling party, the AIADMK, say reports of them bagging cabinet spots are incorrect - they point out that the party has yet to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coalition or announce any formal a...

At least six people were injured at one of Hyderabad's largest hospitals after a car belonging to a doctor ran into a group of pedestrians near the hospital's parking lot. The six persons injured include at least two patients - one of them is a 95-year-old man, whose leg has been crushed. Another is a woman suffering from heart ailment, who came to...

Rescue workers, including those from the National Disaster National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), searched for more than a dozen people who are still feared trapped in a 117-year-old, five-storey building that collapsed in Mumbai this morning, two days after torrential rain lashed the city. 32 people have died and many, including four firemen, ar...

To sentence self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a judge flew into Rohtak in Haryana today on a government helicopter. After landing at a helipad near the prison where the "Guru of Bling" was incarcerated late on Friday night, Justice Jagdeep Singh was escorted with thick security cover to a makeshift prison created within the jail l...

The sentence against rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was declared by a special CBI court today. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison as he was announced guilty of raping two women in a 2002 case. Followers of Dera Sacha Sauda in Punjab, Haryana and other cities, burned down gas stations and train stations and torched vehicles after Dera...