The condition of India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee, who tested positive for coronavirus and underwent a surgery last night to remove a clot in his brain, remains critical, the hospital where he is being treated said today.

High-speed internet services will be restored on a trial basis in limited areas of Jammu and Kashmir after August 15, the Indian government tells the Supreme Court.

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee has been put on ventilator support after undergoing brain surgery at the Army Research and Referral hospital in New Delhi where he was admitted after testing positive for Covid-19.

India’s former President Pranab Mukherjee said today that he has tested positive for Covid-19.

The Indian federal government has sought approval of the West Bengal state government to allow the return of 2,680 Indians stranded in Bangladesh since the coronavirus lockdown in March.

At least seven people have been killed and 10 others injured when a fire broke out at a hotel, which was being used as a make-shift facility for Covid-19 patients in Vijaywada town of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said officials.

Bangladesh has expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives in the plane crash in Kozhikode, India, and conveyed its sympathies to the families of the deceased.

“I am really afraid. I don’t want to fly again,” says 28-year-old Muhammad Shafaf, who was returning home from Dubai on board the Air India Express flight IX 1344 which skidded off the runway amid heavy rains, hurtling down a sharp slope and breaking in two, leaving 18 people dead and scores injured, at Calicut International Airport in the southern Indian city of Kozhikode.

A massive search operation using man and machine, is underway to find 50 odd people reported missing after a landslide in Kerala’s Idukki district.

Investigators today began their probe into the crash of the Air India Express plane with 195 people on board to Kozhikode in Kerala as the plane’s Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder were recovered from the aircraft, Civil Aviation officials said.

The death toll in the Air India Express plane crash at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport rises to 18 with one more passenger succumbing to injuries.

A landslide caused by torrential rains killed at least 15 tea garden workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and rescue workers were searching for more than 50 people thought to be trapped under soil and debris, officials say.

At least 17 people, including the pilot and co-pilot, have been killed and 112 injured after an Air India Express Boeing 737 aircraft with 195 people on board from Dubai skidded off the runway while landing amidst heavy downpour at the Kozhikode airport in the southern state of Kerala, police say.

Serum Institute of India (SII) today said it has entered a partnership with international vaccine alliance Gavi and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate manufacturing and delivery of up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for India and low and middle-income countries (LMIC).

Delhi Airport today announced it has developed a first-of-its-kind portal where India-bound international flyers can fill mandatory self-declaration form and apply online for exemption from mandatory institution quarantine process.

In the wake of the devastating Beirut blast, Indian authorities are on alert over the reported presence of 740 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in a customs warehouse in Chennai port for nearly five years.

The Indian government told the Supreme Court that the authority has withdrawn look-out notices against some foreigners who have challenged the apex court on the government's orders blacklisting several citizens of 35 countries for attending a Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi in March.

Manoj Sinha, a senior leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and a former federal minister, was today appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir replacing a seasoned bureaucrat, in a significant change for the region, which lost its special constitutional status a year ago.

At least eight Covid-19 patients were killed when a fire swept through a private hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad in the wee hours.

Covid-19 infections have spread to newer areas across India but 82 percent of the total number of cases are limited to ten states and federally-ruled territories, the country’s health ministry said today.