After remaining closed to tourists for over six months due to coronavirus, the world heritage site Taj Mahal in Agra reopened today with strict health safety guidelines, media reports said.

Ten people were killed in their sleep and 20 feared trapped as a portion of a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi town of western Indian state of Maharashtra today, Indian police said.

India has given green signal to the commercial launch of a new coronavirus-detection technology named after master director Satyajit Ray’s iconic detective Feluda aka Prodosh Mitter.

India and Japan are looking at working together in countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

The Indian government is likely to grant its authorities a special permission to export 25,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh.

India’s sudden ban on onion exports undermined earlier discussions regarding such restrictions on essential food items, Dhaka has said in a letter to Delhi, as price of the kitchen staple skyrocketed immediately after Delhi’s ban announcement.

The officials of the Indian external affairs ministry have begun talks with the commerce ministry officials on the issue of allowing at least 1,000 trucks containing onions to proceed to Bangladesh to supply the kitchen staple.

A special court in Lucknow will pronounce judgment in the 28-year-old case relating to the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on September 30.

The Indian government’s move to ban the export of onion has sparked a farmers’ unrest in Maharashtra while nearly hundreds of trucks carrying an estimated 25,000 tonnes of onion were stranded on the Bangladesh border with West Bengal.

The conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF), which was postponed two days ago, will now take place from September 16-19.

India today announced a ban on the export of onions with immediate effect, stoking fears of a crisis of the vegetable in Bangladeshi markets.

Two Indian officials have said Chinese troops were laying a network of optical fibre cables at a western Himalayan flashpoint with India, suggesting they were digging in for the long haul despite high-level talks aimed at resolving a standoff there.

Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said Covid-19 vaccine may be ready in the country by the first quarter of 2021 and that he would be the first to offer himself for receiving the vaccine “if people have a trust deficit”.

Indian customs officials intercepted a fishing trawler “smuggling sarees and other garments worth about Rs 3.3 crore” to Bangladesh, from South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

The West Bengal state government has started the official procedure to send back 650 Bangladeshi prisoners who have completed their sentences but are still languishing in different jails in the state.

India and China have agreed on a five-point plan for resolving the prolonged military face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

India today moved very close to the grim milestone of one lakh Covid-19 positive cases in a single-day.

India is actively considering Russia’s request for holding phase-3 clinical trial and production of its Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V by Indian firms, officials say.

India’s Border Security Force today said they have apprehended a Bangladeshi national when he was allegedly trying to smuggle cattle through a river route in Malda district of India’s West Bengal.

India reported a record number of 1,133 coronavirus-linked deaths and 75,809 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed this morning.