Veteran politician Somen Mitra, who headed the West Bengal unit of Congress party, dies at a hospital in Kolkata of kidney and other related ailments.

The West Bengal government today announced complete lockdown throughout the state twice a week, including all Sundays, in August in order to break the chain of Covid-19 transmission.

India reported a slight dip in the number of Covid-19 cases today, a day after the nation was close to the 50,000 mark, according to health ministry data.

India’s single-day spike in coronavirus cases hovered close to the 50,000-mark today pushing the total caseload across the country past the 14-lakh figure.

India registered 48,916 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, as the total number of patients mounted to 13,36,861, shows health ministry data.

Eminent danseuse and choreographer Amala Shankar, who played a key role in taking Indian dance forms to the world, died of cardiac arrest in sleep at her residence in Kolkata today at the age of 101, her family says.

Another record single-day number of 49,310 cases of Covid-19 took India’s total tally of the contagion patients to 12,87,945, Indian Health Ministry data said today.

With an eye mainly on China, India has amended rules imposing restrictions on public procurement from bidders of countries with which it shares land border, citing grounds of defence and national security, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

India says bidders from bordering countries eyeing government contracts would need prior registration and security clearances, a move seen as New Delhi’s latest effort to counter China following a border clash between the two nations.

India’s budget carrier SpiceJet has said it has been designated as the "Indian scheduled carrier," to operate flights to the US.

The number of coronavirus cases and fatalities across India has touched upon a new one-day high of 45,720 infections and 1,129 deaths, according to health ministry data.

India attracted 20 billion US dollars of foreign investment in the midst of coronavirus pandemic, between April and July, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

Reflecting the severity of the pandemic in Delhi, an official survey by the Indian health ministry has found that at least one in five persons in the Indian capital has been exposed to coronavirus.

India registers a single-day spike of 37,724 Covid-19 cases and 648 deaths pushing the country’s virus caseload to 11,92,915 and the death toll to 28,732.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today indicated that her Trinamool Congress party would make the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) a major plank in the assembly polls in the state next year.

India is often like a "punching bag" for its South Asian neighbours, says the country’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

Amidst tense border standoff between India and China, warships of Indian and US Navies led by the latter’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz held a joint drill off the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Monday, said Indian Navy.

The state government in West Bengal today announced imposition of a complete lockdown in the entire state twice a week, beginning Thursday, in a bid to break the chain of the Covid-19 contagion.

Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus recommends allowing micro-finance institutions (MFIs) in India to accept deposits from the public.

Coronavirus cases across India scale a new single-day high of 40,425 taking the total to 11,18,043.