Indian government says it has for the first time loaded a special parcel train to Bangladesh carrying 384 tonnes of dry chillies from Reddipalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state.

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter tested positive for coronavirus, a day after her father-in-law and top Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and her husband and actor Abhishek were hospitalised for Covid-19.

The condition of Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan, who tested positive for coronavirus last night and was hospitalised in Mumbai, was today stated "stable with mild symptoms."

India’s Biocon Ltd has received regulatory approval for its drug Itolizumab to be used on coronavirus infected patients suffering from moderate to severe respiratory distress.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his son, actor Abhishek Bachchan have tested positive and are admitted to the isolation unit at a hospital in Mumbai.

Renowned Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan has been admitted to a Mumbai hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus. The 77-year-old actor confirmed the news on Twitter, adding that his family and staff are also being tested.

At least six Naga insurgents are killed in a gunfight with Indian forces in Khonsa area of the north eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Sixteen Indian sailors, who had been stranded in Bangladesh due to the coronavirus outbreak, leave Dhaka on a special flight of Novoair.

India had another record single-day jump of 26,506 Covid-19 cases, pushing the total so far to 7,93,802, the health ministry data shows.

India registers a record single-day hike of 24,879 coronavirus infections, which takes the nationwide tally to 767,296.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India “fully understands the urgency of an early, safe and sustainable repatriation of displaced persons from Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the interest of all”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a strict lockdown will go in force for a week in expanded containment zones across nine districts of the region which have a high number of coronavirus cases following a sharp spike in reported cases.

Even as Indian and Chinese troops pull back from the site of a deadly faceoff in Galwan Valley in Ladakh, India is understood to have decided to expedite the construction of strategic roads, bridges and tunnels in forward areas along the border with China.

In view of surging coronavirus cases, the West Bengal government tonight decided to go for total lockdown in wider areas from July 9 which would result in shutting of transport movement, shops and industrial activities there.

Kolkata sets up the country's second plasma bank to treat Covid-19 patients as West Bengal battles surging cases of the contagion.

The Indian government sources have said there are “clear signs” that the Chinese soldiers started pulling back from Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, nearly three weeks after a violent standoff left 20 Indian soldiers dead there.

The unrelenting record single-day surge of Covid-19 cases takes India past Russia as the third worst-hit in terms of total number of contagion cases.

Amid ongoing border tension between China and India following the June 15 Galwan valley standoff, actor and film producer Ajay Devgn has announced a film based on the violent clash between Indian and Chinese troops. The clash led to the loss of lives of 20 Indian soldiers.

The import-export trade between Bangladesh and India resumed through Benapole land port this evening.

Visitors to the Taj Mahal will have to wear masks at all times, keep their distance and not touch its glistening marble surfaces when India's 17th-century monument to love reopens on Monday after a three-month Covid-19 shutdown.