India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

Two Chinese pharma companies that supplied 5.5 lakh rapid testing kits to India for Covid-19 said they are ready to cooperate with Indian agencies probing allegations of poor accuracy of their products.

In a late night order easing Covid-19 lockdown curbs, the Indian government allows the reopening of neighbourhood and stand-alone shops, including those located in residential complexes in municipal areas, but at 50 percent strength of workers and taking necessary precautions.

India is going to almost double its present daily capacity of conducting tests for coronavirus infection by the end of next month, said Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

India records 1,684 new Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, the highest in that time span so far, bringing the total number of cases to 23,077.

India is going to almost double its present daily capacity of conducting tests for coronavirus infection by the end of next month, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

India has succeeded in minimising coronavirus transmission in 30 days of the lockdown so far, the country’s health ministry says.

International rating agency Fitch has cut India's economic growth projections to 0.8 percent in the current 2020-21 financial year, saying an unparalleled global recession was underway due to disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns.

In the backdrop of a number of attacks on healthcare workers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic across India, the Indian cabinet today approved an ordinance amending an existing law to provide for stringent punishment -- including up to seven years imprisonment and Rs five lakh fine -- for perpetrators of such assaults.

A team of Indian researchers are making the fictional world collide with the scientific one by naming a new species of snake they discovered -- "Trimeresurus Salazar" -- after Salazar Slytherin of Harry Potter.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate a special flight from New Delhi on Friday to bring back Bangladeshi nationals who have been stranded in India for around a month due to the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 100 families residing at the President's Estate of India, which houses the Rashtrapati Bhavan, went on self-isolation after a sanitation worker's relative tested positive for coronavirus, officials say.

India’s state-owned Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is initiating a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a drug, which is meant for saving lives of critically ill patients suffering from Gram-negative sepsis, to reduce the deaths of critically ill Covid-19 patients.

India has decided to allow the use of surplus rice stored in government godowns to make alcohol-based hand sanitisers, as its demand has soared in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundred and sixty-four Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, return home.

India has rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks alleging the targeting of Muslims in the country in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

On the eve of India entering the 26th straight day of a nationwide lockdown forced by Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the contagion has significantly changed the contours of professional life and trade and calls for new office and business models.

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.