The Indian Supreme Court orders CBI investigation into Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee’s health condition has deteriorated as he developed a lung infection, Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi said today.

The total number of Covid-19 infections in India edged forward to 27,67,273 today with 64,531 new cases in a single day, according to the nation’s health ministry.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi today, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow in the first high level official visit from India since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, The Times Of India reported.

The Visva Bharati University in West Bengal’s Santiniketan has been closed indefinitely following violent protests by students and locals against the authority’s decision to construct a boundary wall around the venue for Poush Mela, a key annual cultural event of the institution held every winter.

Legendary Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj died following a cardiac arrest at his home in New Jersey, his daughter Durga Jasraj said. He was 90.

The coronavirus-linked death count across India crosses the 50,000-mark with the addition of 941 fresh fatalities.

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee today tweeted that his father is doing “much better and stable than the preceding days” and he is responding well to treatment at a hospital in New Delhi.

India has recorded over 63,000 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 25.89 lakh, according to data from the country’s health ministry today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart K. P. Sharma Oli spoke on Saturday for the first time since a diplomatic spat over a map and a disputed area of territory erupted earlier this year between the South Asian neighbours.

Three coronavirus vaccines are at different stages of trials and a roadmap is ready for production and distribution across India in the shortest possible time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

A pair of Toucans were seized by India’s BSF near West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh, officials said today.

A political row has erupted in Marxist-ruled southern state of Kerala over the decision of the state government to allow police to access phone call detail records (CDRs) of Covid-19 patients ostensibly for effective contact-tracing.

Ailing former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee is “deeply comatose” and his condition remained unchanged, the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi has said.

At least three people are killed as Indian police open fire on a mob that went on a rampage in Bengaluru, resenting a communally sensitive social media post allegedly put out by a kin of opposition Congress party lawmaker.

Daughters cannot be deprived of their right of equality and they will have equal coparcenary (joint heirship) rights in joint Hindu family property even if the father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, India’s Supreme Court has ruled.

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has reportedly been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, according to Indian media reports.

The condition of India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery for removal of a clot in his brain, has worsened.