India reported a record single-day spike of 24,850 coronavirus cases while 613 people succumbed to the disease in a day, the highest so far, health ministry data showed today.

Visva Bharati University has decided to cancel the century-old “Poush Mela” in Santiniketan this year and the 'Basanto Utsav' next year in the wake of a letter by Indian human resources development ministry advising against any large gathering on campus for the coronavirus scare.

In another suspected case of brutality on an animal, a five-year-old elephant, which was found with a fractured jaw, died in a forest in India’s southern state of Kerala last night.

In the highest single-day spike so far, a total of 22,771 people test positive for coronavirus infection in India.

In an apparent dig at China, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that “the era of expansionism is over”.

Ace choreographer Saroj Khan, who was admitted to Mumbai’s Guru Nanak Hospital in June after she complained of breathing problems, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 71.

For the first time, India's single-day total tally of coronavirus cases reach the 20,000-mark, while the death count rose to 18,213 with 379 fresh fatalities, Indian Health Ministry data shows.

India's trade gap with China declines to USD 48.66 billion in the 2019-20 financial year due to a fall in imports from that country, according to official data.

A Bangladeshi national, who was apprehended by the police with 25 other fellow countrymen recently for allegedly violating lockdown, died in a government hospital in Assam's Dhubri district, Assam police says.

India has decided to go for acquisition of various weapon platforms and equipment, including 21 MiG-29 fighter jets from Russia, at an approximate cost of Rs 38,900 crore.

The Indian arm of global consumer giant Unilever (ULVR.L) has said its much-criticised skin cream ‘Fair & Lovely’ will be rebranded as ‘Glow & Lovely’.

India's coronavirus cases’ tally went past six lakh mark today, just five days after it crossed the five lakh mark, with a 24-hour increase of 19,148 cases.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to withdraw his account from the Chinese microblogging website Weibo, a couple of days after India announced a ban on 59 Chinese apps amidst a standoff with China in Ladakh.

India recorded the highest single-day death count of 507 due to coronavirus, taking the total toll to 17,400, according to health ministry data.

US-based private equity firm Carlyle Group will acquire a 25 percent stake in Airtel's wholly-owned subsidiary data centre business, Nxtra Data based in New Delhi, for $235 million (Rs 1,780 crore), the company said today.

India has deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.

IOC Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, and RR Holdings Ltd, the holding company of Beximco LPG of Bangladesh, have signed an agreement for the formation of a 50:50 Joint Venture Company for LPG business in Bangladesh.

A day after being banned by India, Chinese App TikTok’s India unit today said it has not shared any information on Indian users with any foreign government, including the Chinese government.

Two persons are killed and four others are taken ill as benzimidazole gas leaks at a pharmaceutical company in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

In another case of extreme brutality and growing human-animal conflict, three people in the Indian state of Telangana hanged a monkey to death to scare away other primates from the area, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting forest department officials.