Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India “fully understands the urgency of an early, safe and sustainable repatriation of displaced persons from Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the interest of all”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a strict lockdown will go in force for a week in expanded containment zones across nine districts of the region which have a high number of coronavirus cases following a sharp spike in reported cases.

Even as Indian and Chinese troops pull back from the site of a deadly faceoff in Galwan Valley in Ladakh, India is understood to have decided to expedite the construction of strategic roads, bridges and tunnels in forward areas along the border with China.

In view of surging coronavirus cases, the West Bengal government tonight decided to go for total lockdown in wider areas from July 9 which would result in shutting of transport movement, shops and industrial activities there.

Kolkata sets up the country's second plasma bank to treat Covid-19 patients as West Bengal battles surging cases of the contagion.

The Indian government sources have said there are “clear signs” that the Chinese soldiers started pulling back from Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, nearly three weeks after a violent standoff left 20 Indian soldiers dead there.

The unrelenting record single-day surge of Covid-19 cases takes India past Russia as the third worst-hit in terms of total number of contagion cases.

Amid ongoing border tension between China and India following the June 15 Galwan valley standoff, actor and film producer Ajay Devgn has announced a film based on the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops. The clash led to the loss of lives of 20 Indian soldiers.

The import-export trade between Bangladesh and India resumed through Benapole land port this evening.

Visitors to the Taj Mahal will have to wear masks at all times, keep their distance and not touch its glistening marble surfaces when India's 17th-century monument to love reopens on Monday after a three-month Covid-19 shutdown.

India reported a record single-day spike of 24,850 coronavirus cases while 613 people succumbed to the disease in a day, the highest so far, health ministry data showed today.

Visva Bharati University has decided to cancel the century-old “Poush Mela” in Santiniketan this year and the 'Basanto Utsav' next year in the wake of a letter by Indian human resources development ministry advising against any large gathering on campus for the coronavirus scare.

In another suspected case of brutality on an animal, a five-year-old elephant, which was found with a fractured jaw, died in a forest in India’s southern state of Kerala last night.

In the highest single-day spike so far, a total of 22,771 people test positive for coronavirus infection in India.

In an apparent dig at China, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that “the era of expansionism is over”.

Ace choreographer Saroj Khan, who was admitted to Mumbai’s Guru Nanak Hospital in June after she complained of breathing problems, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 71.

For the first time, India's single-day total tally of coronavirus cases reach the 20,000-mark, while the death count rose to 18,213 with 379 fresh fatalities, Indian Health Ministry data shows.

India's trade gap with China declines to USD 48.66 billion in the 2019-20 financial year due to a fall in imports from that country, according to official data.

A Bangladeshi national, who was apprehended by the police with 25 other fellow countrymen recently for allegedly violating lockdown, died in a government hospital in Assam's Dhubri district, Assam police says.

India has decided to go for acquisition of various weapon platforms and equipment, including 21 MiG-29 fighter jets from Russia, at an approximate cost of Rs 38,900 crore.