With a total of 25,000 cases and death toll of 650, the current coronavirus situation in India’s national capital Delhi is “worrisome,” Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says.

The death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala after it ate a pineapple full of explosives will be probed by the government, India’s Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar has tweeted.

In an act of indescribable brutality, a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala's Silent Valley forest dies after eating a pineapple stuffed with powerful crackers offered by a man, a senior forest officer say.

Mumbai authorities ordered offices and factories to shut and people to stay home Wednesday, reversing a move to ease a coronavirus lockdown as the Indian megacity faced its first cyclone in more than 70 years.

At least 100,000 people, including some coronavirus patients, are being moved to safer locations according to officials, as India's west coast braced for a cyclone, the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have discussed over telephone the ongoing border tension between India and China, and the civil disturbances in the US over the death of a black man in police custody.

India is “very far away from the peak” as far as the spread of Covid-19 infection is concerned and preventive measures taken to check the spread have been very effective, the government said today.

Tropical storm Nisarga is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 18 hours and make landfall close to India’s financial and entertainment hub Mumbai tomorrow, the Indian Met department said today.

As many as 20 people have reportedly died due to landslides in three southern districts of Assam as incessant rains lashed the northeastern state in the wake of pre-monsoon floods.

As India entered the second day of the phased exit from coronavirus-induced lockdown, the death toll due to the contagion rises to 5,598 across the country.

India has begun preparing a national forecast model to help monitor the future transmission of Covid-19 and assist governments in decision-making on readiness of the national health systems and other mitigation measures.

India has extended the nationwide shutdown till June 30 as coronavirus cases have spiked in the country.

West Bengal Police have arrested a top operative of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), wanted in cases filed with Bangladeshi police stations and also allegedly involved in a blast at a key Buddhist shrine in India in 2018, from a hideout in Murshidabad district.

India today recorded the highest single-day spike in the number of fresh coronavirus deaths and positive cases.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed his first year in office in his second successive tenure, he acknowledged the tremendous suffering of the poor and vulnerable due to the nationwide coronavirus-induced lockdown, but called for ensuring that “inconveniences do not turn into disasters.”

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities say.

Chief Minister of the Indian state of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb has said ships from the state and Bangladesh will begin to ply the new waterways on the river Gomati within three months.

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.