Shawdesh Desk: A fierce fire ripped through a hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata killing at least 15 people, police said Wednesday, with some clambering out of windows and ReadMore
Shawdesh Desk: Anger in Indian-run Kashmir escalated on Monday over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack last week that New Delhi blames ReadMore
Shawdesh desk: At least 15 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital late Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest ReadMore
Shawdesh Desk: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that ‘development had won’ as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections. ReadMore
Shawdesh desk: India’s ruling party BJP will free the city of Delhi from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas within two years if it gets the mandate in next month’s provincial ReadMore
A court in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Monday sentenced a man convicted of raping and murdering a young female physician to life imprisonment. The killing of the ReadMore
Shawdesh desk: Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people — the ReadMore
Shawdesh desk: India on Saturday accorded former prime minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, a state funeral with full military ReadMore