India will take back its nationals, who are stranded in Bangladesh during the ongoing shutdown enforced due to the coronavirus pandemic, by air.

Hundreds of migrant workers in India’s Gujarat looking to return home amid the nationwide Covid-19-enforced lockdown clash with police near a village in Surat district.

India has conveyed its strong protest to Pakistan’s efforts to bring “material change” in Pakistan-occupied territories and asked Islamabad to vacate them.

Five Indian security personnel, including a colonel and a major, were killed in an encounter at a village in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, which also saw the elimination of two terrorists, officials said today.

The pan-India lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic has led to coming to light of some priceless memorabilia associated with master director Satyajit Ray at the loft of his house on Bishop Lefroy Road in south Kolkata.

India's defence forces will conduct fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft and shower petals from helicopters on hospitals treating coronavirus patients tomorrow in a show of gratitude to doctors, medical staff and other frontline health workers battling the pandemic.

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.

The Indian government has hinted that the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 would be extended beyond May 3, but with "considerable relaxations" for people and services in many districts.

An Indian government-run institute for medical sciences and technology claims to have developed a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 which can detect the contagion in 10 minutes.

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer, his brother Randhir Kapoor says.

Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people stuck in different parts of India, were allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions as of today.

Irrfan Khan, one of the most talented Indian actors who essayed a wide variety of roles including in Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi’s “Doob”, dies in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 54.

India will be self-reliant in producing indigenous rapid tests and diagnostic kits for Covid-19 by May-end, making it possible to conduct one lakh tests a day, said the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

National airliner Biman Bangladesh Airlines and private air operator US-Bangla Airlines will operate six special flights from India to bring back around 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis from the neighbouring country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.

The man, who entered India’s Assam by swimming across river, did not go there “for Covid-19 treatment”, and he is “mentally challenged”, says Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official, local council representatives and doctors.

An Indian woman has been allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she was quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official says.

India hands over its second tranche of emergency medical supplies containing 1,00,000 Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets and 50,000 sterile surgical latex gloves to Bangladesh to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.