An international convention of people of Indian-origin in the US has demanded voting rights for Indian citizens living outside India and Rajya Sabha seats for NRIs.
The Australian High Commission in Delhi has granted over 1.5 lakh visas to Indians during the 2015-16 program year, underlining the fast expanding links between the two countries.
Slamming the opposition for "defaming" hard working people of Punjab by labelling them as "drug addicts", Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday claimed the magnitude of the drug problem in the state was "much less than in many other states of the country".
A 24-year-old dance instructor allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death with a wire and then committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan inside a dance academy in south Delhi's Neb Sarai area on Wednesday.
Fida, a member of India's first transgender group -- 6 Pack Band - says the community in the Mumbai region aspires for an "ashram" of its own, but they have yet not been able to get the land for it.
At least 100 Pakistani Hindus staying in India on a long-term visa have applied for Indian citizenship during a two-day camp organised by the Home Ministry and district authorities.