The Latest Breaking News from India

It’s early morning at a traffic intersection in Thane, a city on the outskirts of Mumbai, the bustling financial capital of India that's home to more than 20 million people. The roads are already crowded with commuters, while engines and horns fill the air with noise that's amplified by the…

The Pakistani military said the launch was aimed at ensuring the “operational readiness of troops and validating key technical parameters."

It is still unclear what led to the stampede

Threat to life, state censorship, corporate clampdown – press freedom in India is under siege from every direction. 

India bans import of goods originating from or transiting via Pakistan as diplomatic tensions soar

Tens of thousands of devotees throng narrow lanes leading to Hindu temple in the coastal state, causing a deadly crush.

On India's heavily fortified border with arch-rival Pakistan, residents of farming villages have sent families back from the frontier, recalling the terror of the last major conflict between the rival armies.

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency…

For the first time in the history of the Press Freedom Index, published annually by Reporters Without Borders, the conditions for practising journalism are “difficult” or “very serious” in over half of the world’s countries and satisfactory in fewer than one in four.