The Indian government-run Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) succeeds in establishing stable cultures of coronavirus from patients’ samples, in a development virologists say could help develop a vaccine against the contagion.

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) write a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking her intervention for early resumption of trade with Bangladesh through land ports, which has remained suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.

India reports its highest 24-hour spike of novel coronavirus cases, with 7,466 recorded in a day, according to the country’s health ministry.

Bangladeshi singer Mainul Ahsan Noble has been sued in Indian state Tripura for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.

Indian security forces have averted a major car bomb attack by detecting and defusing a vehicle fitted with improvised explosive devices (IED) in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Rapid antibody tests for Covid-19 are for surveillance purpose only, an Indian High Court noted today and said a final decision on conducting such tests in containment zones across Maharashtra is to be taken by the state government.

China has announced its decision to pull out its citizens -- including students, tourists and businessmen -- from India who are facing “difficulties” in the country and want to return home in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash sank in a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district today after hitting a submerged pontoon jetty damaged by cyclone Amphan.

India overtakes Iran to become one of the 10 worst-hit nations as it recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus positive cases for the fourth consecutive day with 6,977 new patients across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to nearly 1.38 lakh cases.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 6,767 new patients in the last 24 hours.

The Indian Army troops are deployed in Kolkata and neighbouring districts in West Bengal to help civil authorities restore essential infrastructure and services which were badly hit by Cyclone Amphan on May 20.

India’s Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government will try to resume international passenger flights -- suspended since March due to coronavirus outbreak -- before August this year.

The number of Covid-19 cases across India saw the biggest single-day spike, for the second consecutive day, with 6,654 new patients being reported in the last 24 hours.

Super Cyclone Amphan, which weakened into an “extremely severe” cyclonic storm kills at least 12 persons and ravaged Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal as it left behind a trail of destruction by uprooting trees, destroying thousands of homes and swamping low-lying areas of the state.

As extremely severe cyclone Amphan is set to make landfall, forest authorities in West Bengal, India keep a close watch on the protection of Royal Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans.

The total number of coronavirus patients across India crosses the one lakh mark with 4,970 more cases in the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today extended the ongoing lockdown in the state till May 31 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

India has extended the countrywide coronavirus-induced lockdown till May 31 and framed new guidelines that largely leave it to states to decide on colour-coding of contagion hotspots and allowing shops and markets, among other economic activities, to resume functioning outside containment zones.

Thirty municipal areas spread over 12 states are accounting for almost 80 percent of India’s Covid-19 cases, according to the health ministry.

It is important for nations to work together and do as much as possible to make the world healthier and free from Covid-19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today, responding to US President Donald Trump who said his country would donate ventilators to India in the fight against the pandemic.