Indian police have arrested nine Bangladeshis in West Bengal and Meghalaya on charges of entering India illegally
The Congress-Aam Aadmi Party alliance in Punjab faces its first test tomorrow as it goes to the Chandigarh mayoral election in a bid to unseat the BJP from key posts in the state
Imposing a fine of Rs five lakh on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Calcutta High Court judge Kaushik Chanda today recused himself from hearing her petition challenging the election of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari who defeated her in the assembly election in Nandigram.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gifts of sweet Haribhanga mangoes were handed over to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind today.
India’s digital platform, which is powering the “world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive” in the country, will soon be made available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.
Police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh today detained eight Bangladeshi nationals, who had allegedly entered India illegally, from a train.
India’s Supreme Court today ruled saying the federal government must pay compensation to the families of those who succumbed to Covid-19.
India will offer tourist visa, free of cost, to five lakh foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost the country’s travel and tourism sector battered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
A 34-year-old Covid-19 patient who has recovered was diagnosed with “Green Fungus” (Aspergillosis) in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh's Indore city. This is possibly the first case of this type of virus in the country, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mithun Chakraborty was today questioned by Kolkata Police over his controversial speech during the campaign for recent West Bengal assembly elections.
With only about four crore people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, India has decided to establish a tracking platform to assess the impact of its vaccination programme and evaluate the degree of protection when someone is fully or partially immunized.
The Indian government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific group that it said recommended the increase, three members of the advisory body told Reuters.
A committee of experts set up by the Indian government to study the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines has confirmed the death of a 68-year-old man who died due to a severe allergic reaction immediately after vaccination -- also known as anaphylaxis -- on March 8, according to a report submitted by the National Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee.
Two Indian senior opposition leaders -- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress and Bahujan Samajwadi Party supremo Mayawati -- today demanded probe into the death of a TV journalist who recently reported on the “liquor mafia” in Uttar Pradesh state.
The Editors Guild of India today alleged the Uttar Pradesh police did not pay heed to the concerns of a TV journalist who died in a road accident on Sunday and said journalists critical of the central and state governments “are being targeted and unjustifiably charged with sedition cases”.
India reported 70,421 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the lowest in one and half months.
Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) launched a Global video blogging competition: “My Life My Yoga” in June 2020.
India’s national capital Delhi today announced another major round of easing Covid-19-induced restrictions, joining a number of other states which are opening up in a regulated manner after stringent lockdowns.
