The authorities in India have announced to expand the country’s inoculation drive against Covid-19 to private hospitals and also allowing people aged above 60 years and those over 45 with comorbidities from March 1.

India’s coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said yesterday.

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an association of the country’s biggest newspapers, has urged global search engine Google to hike the publisher’s share of its advertisement revenue to 85 percent for carrying their content online, joining an intensifying international face-off with the media houses.

An abandoned vehicle containing explosives was found this evening near India’s richest industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house in Mumbai, Maharashtra state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said.

The passenger train between New Jalpaiguri (NJP) in India’s West Bengal state and Dhaka will start on March 26, as part of Bangladesh's independence golden jubilee celebrations.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said Bangladesh can export edible oil to India with 20 percent value addition to the product.

The Indian Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria arrived in Dhaka this afternoon on a three-day visit to Bangladesh.

A substantial fraction of India’s 1.35 billion population currently has immunity against the coronavirus, coupled perhaps with some natural form of immunity, three eminent scientists of the country said quoting serological surveys as well as model predictions.

Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, yesterday urged countries to be patient for supplies of Covid-19 vaccine Covishield as the company has been directed to prioritise the “huge needs” of India.

India has provided 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine as gift to the Maldives.

“Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye” (Bengal wants its own daughter) -- is the new slogan unveiled today by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress portraying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections due in March-April.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put forward a five-point plan for enhancing collaboration among South Asian countries to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes launching of a special visa scheme for free movement of doctors and nurses.

India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the bomb attack on her ministerial colleague Jakir Hossain was “part of a conspiracy” as certain people were “pressing” him to switch parties.

For the first time, the Indian government has approved financial powers for the entire top brass of the country's armed forces. Earlier, only the chiefs and the vice chiefs of the three services -- the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- were allowed to make such decisions.

India will provide two lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to UN peacekeepers as gifts, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has announced.

A delegation of senior diplomats of 24 countries, including Bangladesh, began a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir for making an assessment of the situation post the abrogation of the erstwhile state's special status in 2019.

India’s enforcement directorate today said it has attached more than 17 crore rupees bank deposits in connection with its case of alleged money laundering against two entities of Amnesty International (India).

India has detected both the South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants and people returning from those countries may be tested more aggressively, health officials said on Tuesday.

At least 37 people, including 16 women and one child, were killed as a bus carrying them fell into a canal in Sidhi district of India’s Madhya Pradesh this morning, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Fallout from a devastating flash flood in a remote north Indian valley hit the capital New Delhi more than 500 kilometres downstream yesterday, when water supplies were cut to tens of thousands of residents.