An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed during a “violent face-off” with the Chinese military in the Himalayan heights of eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last night, the Indian armed force said today.

Delhi Health Minister Satyander Jain tweets that he has been hospitalised with complaints of high fever and breathlessness and will undergo a test for coronavirus.

India today joined leading economies, including the US, the UK and the EU, to launch the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI).

As the total number of coronavirus cases went up across India by more than 11,000 for the third straight day, a study has predicted that the country will reach the peak stage of the contagion’s spread around mid-November of 2020.

The Indian health ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorisation to treat Covid-19 patients in moderate stage as the country emerged as fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with more than 3.20 lakh cases.

India saw a record single-day increase of 11,929 coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 320,922.

India today reacted sharply to a bill passed in Nepal’s parliament redrawing the Himalayan nation’s map which reportedly includes parts of the Indian territory.

India surpasses the three lakh-mark of coronavirus positive cases with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, according to the country’s health ministry.

An Indian national has been killed and two others injured in a shooting incident allegedly by Nepal police along the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district.

India’s Supreme Court has described the state of affairs at the hospitals in Delhi as “horrendous” regarding treatment of patients and handling of bodies of those dying of Covid-19.

India records more than 10,000 new cases in a 24-hour span for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Allahabad High Court today granted interim bail to six Bangladeshis booked for allegedly misusing tourist visa by attending the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhi in March and then going to Lucknow without medical examination amidst serious apprehension of spreading coronavirus during the lockdown.

US-Bangla Airlines has repatriated 45 Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to suspension of regular passenger flights on international routes due to Covid-19 – to New Delhi by a special chartered flight today.

A prominent politician in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who tested positive for coronavirus infection, dies in a hospital in Chennai, becoming India's first sitting legislator to fall victim to the contagion.

India’s private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh has said.

In a virtual launch of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for next year’s assembly elections in West Bengal, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today raised the issue of the amended Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and rebuked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her opposition to the law.

Seeking to facilitate availability of experimental drugs for severely-ill Covid-19 patients, the Indian Health Ministry has issued a draft notification for manufacture, import and "compassionate use" of any unapproved drug that is in the phase-III (human) of clinical trial globally.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has gone into self-isolation and will get himself tested for coronavirus tomorrow.

Fresh coronavirus cases soar to a new high in India in the last 24 hours, taking the total past 2.56 lakh, while malls, restaurants and shrines are set to reopen in several areas across the country.

Taking cognisance of the death of a pregnant wild elephant at Silent Valley Forest in the southern state of Kerala, India’s National Green Tribunal forms a committee and directed it to submit an action-taken report on the matter.