The Indian government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific group that it said recommended the increase, three members of the advisory body told Reuters.

A committee of experts set up by the Indian government to study the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines has confirmed the death of a 68-year-old man who died due to a severe allergic reaction immediately after vaccination -- also known as anaphylaxis -- on March 8, according to a report submitted by the National Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee.

Two Indian senior opposition leaders -- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress and Bahujan Samajwadi Party supremo Mayawati -- today demanded probe into the death of a TV journalist who recently reported on the “liquor mafia” in Uttar Pradesh state.

The Editors Guild of India today alleged the Uttar Pradesh police did not pay heed to the concerns of a TV journalist who died in a road accident on Sunday and said journalists critical of the central and state governments “are being targeted and unjustifiably charged with sedition cases”.

Many Indian states eased coronavirus restrictions yesterday including the capital Delhi, where authorities allowed all shops and malls to open, as the number of new infections dropped to the lowest in more than two months.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said in parliament today that the possibility of a political settlement in East Pakistan was “becoming more remote” every day.

India reported 70,421 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the lowest in one and half months.

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) launched a Global video blogging competition: “My Life My Yoga” in June 2020.

India’s national capital Delhi today announced another major round of easing Covid-19-induced restrictions, joining a number of other states which are opening up in a regulated manner after stringent lockdowns.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a strong push for the G7's support for the proposal moved at the WTO by India and South Africa for a patent waiver on Covid-19 related technologies.

Indian start-up Mylab Discovery Solutions hopes that its inexpensive Covid-19 home test kit -- the country’s first -- will help the massive South Asian nation better track the pandemic’s spread among its 1.3-billion people.

India yesterday cut taxes on medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators and drugs used to treat Covid-19 infections, after widespread criticism over healthcare costs during a devastating second wave of the virus in April and May.

India yesterday recorded a global record of more than 6,000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours after one state dramatically revised upwards its data, stoking suspicions that the country’s toll is much higher than reported.

India today reported the highest single-day death toll from Covid-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at home or in private hospitals.

At least 11 people, including eight children, died after a Mumbai residential building collapsed on top of another building late on Wednesday, local officials said.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the lawsuit filed by actor-environmentalist Juhi Chawla against the setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country, and also imposed a fine of Rs 20 lakh for the abuse of the process of law.

Indian scientists have come up with a promising technique for early detection of development or strengthening of tropical cyclones in the atmosphere for the Bay of Bengal basin, at least four days before satellite detects them over ocean surface in North Indian Ocean region.

A remote village in Bandipora district of India’s Jammu and Kashmir has become the first area in the country to vaccinate its entire adult population against Covid-19, officials said today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that his government will give free Covid-19 vaccines to all Indians in the 18-44 age group free of cost from June 21.

Markets and shopping malls in New Delhi will be allowed to reopen from tomorrow in a further easing of the Covid-19 lockdown, the chief minister said as infections fall in major Indian cities after weeks of restrictions.