India recorded the highest single-day death count of 507 due to coronavirus, taking the total toll to 17,400, according to health ministry data.

US-based private equity firm Carlyle Group will acquire a 25 percent stake in Airtel's wholly-owned subsidiary data centre business, Nxtra Data based in New Delhi, for $235 million (Rs 1,780 crore), the company said today.

India has deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.

IOC Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, and RR Holdings Ltd, the holding company of Beximco LPG of Bangladesh, have signed an agreement for the formation of a 50:50 Joint Venture Company for LPG business in Bangladesh.

A day after being banned by India, Chinese App TikTok’s India unit today said it has not shared any information on Indian users with any foreign government, including the Chinese government.

Two persons are killed and four others are taken ill as benzimidazole gas leaks at a pharmaceutical company in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

In another case of extreme brutality and growing human-animal conflict, three people in the Indian state of Telangana hanged a monkey to death to scare away other primates from the area, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting forest department officials.

India reports nearly 20,000 new coronavirus infections, a new record for the country, as several states reimpose partial or full lockdowns to stem the spread of the virus.

India registered its highest spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with 19,906 new patients, pushing the tally to 528,859, the health ministry said today.

Authorities have put parts of Delhi on high alert against a possible attack by crop-destroying locusts whose swarms descended on neighbouring Gurgaon in Haryana state, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

India's tally of coronavirus cases passed half a million has with another record single-day surge of 18,552 cases, according to Indian health ministry data.

With cross-border trade slowing down at Petrapole-Benapole border due to coronavirus, a consignment of nearly 1,100 tonnes of sponge iron has left for Bangladesh using the river route from Kolkata to Narayanganj for the first time, an official has said.

India has extended suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19.

The north eastern state of Assam today announced a "total lockdown" in its capital city Guwahati from Monday for the next two weeks to cope with a sharp surge in new coronavirus patients in the last ten days.

Renowned Bengali writer and journalist Nimai Bhattacharya passed away in Kolkata of India’s West Bengal at the age of 89.

India records the highest-ever single-day surge of 16,922 Covid-19 cases as the country’s total tally goes up to 4,73,105 in the last 24 hours.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shoot dead an alleged Bangladeshi cattle smuggler at Shamsernagar border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat.

With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi’s coronavirus tally has risen to over 70,000 as it became the country’s worst-hit city, overtaking Mumbai, the country’s financial hub.

India has approved an additional investment of 121.27 million USD (about Rs 909 crore) by the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Ltd (OVL) for further development of two blocks of the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that he has been assured by Russia that ongoing bilateral defence hardware supply contracts would be not only maintained but in a number of cases taken forward faster.