India has tightened its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, making mandatory its prior approval for foreign investments from bordering countries to curb "opportunistic takeovers" of domestic firms following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Indian health ministry says the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was doubling has slowed post the nationwide lockdown.

The Indian home ministry asks all states to trace and medically screen all Rohingya Muslim refugees in the country over concerns that they may have attended Tablighi Jamaat’s congregation and Ijtema resulting into contraction of coronavirus.

A total of seventy-seven Bangladeshis stranded in India due to the coronavirus outbreak return to the country through Benapole check post in Jashore.

The three-week lockdown across India which was imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus has been extended till May 3, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces.

The three-week coronavirus-induced lockdown across India may have cost the national economy Rs 7-8 lakh crore, analysts and industry bodies say.

India’s 25 districts in 15 states, where Covid-19 cases were detected earlier, have contained the spread as there are no reports of new infections in the last 14 days, the country’s health ministry said.

India will extend visa of foreign nationals including Bangladeshis -- whose visas have expired since February 1 or would expire on April 30 for being stranded in the country due to lockdown for coronavirus pandemic -- till April 30 free of cost.

As India mulls extending the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak by two more weeks, the country’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has proposed that labour-intensive industries be allowed to resume operations at 20-25 percent capacity with strict adherence to social distancing and sanitisation norms.

The West Bengal government has announced extension of the state-wide lockdown till April 30 and closure of all educational institutes till June 10 as the state registered six new Covid-19 cases, taking the total to 122.

India appears set to extend the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown by two more weeks in a bid to contain the spread of novel coronavirus that has so far claimed 239 lives and affected nearly 7,447 people in the country.

India will do everything possible to help the humanity's fight against Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets.

India’s Supreme Court orders that Covid-19 tests in approved government or private laboratories should be conducted free of cost.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made it clear that the ongoing three-week nationwide lockdown was unlikely to be lifted in one go on April 14 as the country has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

India announces that it will supply two key medicines — paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine — to its neighbouring countries and some other nations badly hit by the pandemic, to bolster the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

India’s President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and all members of the Indian parliament voluntarily decide to take a 30 percent cut in their pay and allowances for a year from April 1, 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak and the expected adverse effect on the economy.

India’s national airlines -- Air India -- which is ferrying European and Canadian citizens stuck in India amid nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, has garnered praise from Pakistan’s Air Traffic Controller (ATC) while flying over the country.

A little over 82 percent of Covid-19 patients in India are below the age of 60 years, according to health ministry data.

India yesterday reported its biggest jump in number of new coronavirus cases as top doctors warned of an “onslaught” that could cripple the health system to levels far beyond what Europe and the United States are experiencing.

In a noble gesture, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan offers his four-storey office in Mumbai to be used for treating Covid-19 patients.