At least three Indian states are denying passports and government jobs to people because of their social media posts or participation in protests, human rights activists said.

India has administered at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to half its eligible adult population of 94 crore, as it crossed 61.10 crore cumulative vaccinations across the country.

India's most populous state will drop legal proceedings against farmers accused of burning crop waste, a major source of pollution, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party tries to placate growers ahead of elections next year to the state assembly.

India will supply millions of additional Covid-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said yesterday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.

Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization Soumya Swaminathan today said India may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is a low or moderate level of Covid-19 transmission.

India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said on Wednesday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.

Indian pharmaceutical firm Gennova Biopharmaceuticals’ Covid-19 vaccine, the first homegrown mRNA-based shot, was found to be safe and effective in an early-stage study, the government said yesterday.

India’s capital New Delhi opened its first “smog tower” yesterday aimed at reducing the air pollution blamed for thousands of premature deaths every year, but experts were sceptical.

The delay in resumption of flights between India and Bangladesh, under the bilateral air bubble agreement, has come as a big disappointment for leading hospitals and hospitality, tourism sectors in Kolkata and Chennai.

Amidst the ongoing evacuation of its nationals and Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan post-Taliban takeover, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet today said this was why India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act.

India has authorised the emergency use of a second homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, which is also the first approved for children older than 12 in the country.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday said time has come for all Indian opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and “plan systematically” and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

Spiritual head of the Ajmer dargah in India, Syed Jainul Abedin, today said that Taliban is “maligning” Islam through terror activities in the name of “sharia”.

Fourteen people were arrested in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam for alleged social media posts supporting Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan, police said today.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said time has come for all opposition parties to rise above their different compulsions and "plan systematically" and unitedly for the 2024 parliamentary election against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party.

After remaining closed for night viewing for more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the iconic Taj Mahal in Agra will reopen tomorrow for visitors who want to enjoy the magic of the white marble monument soaked in moonlight, officials said today.

A Delhi court today discharged senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death at a hotel in New Delhi.

An Indian air force plane has evacuated more than 170 people from Kabul, including India’s ambassador to Afghanistan, a government official says, as diplomats and civilians scramble to leave the country.

The Indian government yesterday told the Supreme Court that there is “nothing to hide” in the Pegasus snooping allegations and it will constitute a committee of eminent experts to examine all aspects.

At least 2,000 people were evacuated yesterday after a massive landslide in India’s ecologically fragile Himalayan north blocked a major river, officials said.