India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today promised free coronavirus vaccination among a host of sops in its manifesto for the assembly election in the eastern state of Bihar beginning next week, where the party is seeking a return to power.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda has said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, that gives Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, will be implemented soon.

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has been virtually conferred the Peace Prize of the German book publishing trade at the Frankfurt fair.

UK-based Kalrock Capital and UAE-based entrepreneur Murari Lal Jalan are the new owners of Jet Airways, which was grounded for months due to acute fund crunch.

India is in the process of finalising a top priority list of nearly 30 crore people, including health workers, police personnel, sanitation workers, the elderly and people with co-morbidities for getting an estimated 60 crore Covid-19 vaccine shots.

Their business dented severely by the Covid-19 pandemic, owners of hotels, restaurants and other tourist-centric establishments operating in central Kolkata’s New Market, Sudder Street and Free School Street met West Bengal Tourism Minister Indranil Sen yesterday, seeking his help to persuade the federal Indian government to resume issuing tourist visas to Bangladeshis who make up a sizeable chunk of the customers.

Noted actor Soumitra Chatterjee has tested negative for coronavirus and his condition has improved, doctors attending on him at a private hospital in Kolkata say.

Soon after her release from a 14-month detention, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has vowed to continue her struggle for the restoration of Article 370, which gave a special constitutional status, and the resolution of the Kashmir issue.

At least 11 people have been killed as heavy incessant rains swept several parts of the southern Indian state of Telangana, triggering waterlogging on roads and inundation of low-lying areas.

The meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) between Bangladesh and India may be held within this year, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said.

After 14 months in detention, Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has been freed as the federally-ruled territory administration revoked the stringent Public Safety Act charges against her.

The air quality in Indian capital Delhi slid into the “very poor” category today for the first time this season as gentle wind and low temperatures allowed accumulation of pollutants.

The family members of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after being brutally assaulted and allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras district of India’s Uttar Pradesh, has told the Allahabad High Court that they want the trial in the case to be moved out of the state.

Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka, Vikram Doraiswami, says that he is hopeful about resuming air operation between India and Bangladesh "very quickly."

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today registered an FIR and took over the probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a Dalit woman in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh, about 190km off New Delhi, last month.

The Reserve Bank of India today said that the country’s real GDP would contract by 9.5 percent in the 2020-21 financial year, and decided to keep benchmark interest rate unchanged at four percent.

A group of aggrieved Indian start-ups are pooling their resources to take on what they consider to be Google's dominance of the country's digital ecosystem.

India has turned down their mill owners’ plea to import raw jute from Bangladesh, saying there is enough stock for the next few months.

India has described the remarks of the UN resident coordinator in New Delhi that the alleged rape and murder in Hathras and Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh "are a reminder that those from disadvantaged social groups are at greater risk of gender-based violence” as “unwarranted”.

India today said it expects to receive and utilise approximately 400-500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines covering approximately 20-25 crore people by July next year, reports our New Delhi correspondent.