India reports nearly 20,000 new coronavirus infections, a new record for the country, as several states reimpose partial or full lockdowns to stem the spread of the virus.

India registered its highest spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours with 19,906 new patients, pushing the tally to 528,859, the health ministry said today.

Authorities have put parts of Delhi on high alert against a possible attack by crop-destroying locusts whose swarms descended on neighbouring Gurgaon in Haryana state, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

India's tally of coronavirus cases passed half a million has with another record single-day surge of 18,552 cases, according to Indian health ministry data.

With cross-border trade slowing down at Petrapole-Benapole border due to coronavirus, a consignment of nearly 1,100 tonnes of sponge iron has left for Bangladesh using the river route from Kolkata to Narayanganj for the first time, an official has said.

India has extended suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19.

The north eastern state of Assam today announced a "total lockdown" in its capital city Guwahati from Monday for the next two weeks to cope with a sharp surge in new coronavirus patients in the last ten days.

Renowned Bengali writer and journalist Nimai Bhattacharya passed away in Kolkata of India’s West Bengal at the age of 89.

India records the highest-ever single-day surge of 16,922 Covid-19 cases as the country’s total tally goes up to 4,73,105 in the last 24 hours.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shoot dead an alleged Bangladeshi cattle smuggler at Shamsernagar border in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat.

With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi’s coronavirus tally has risen to over 70,000 as it became the country’s worst-hit city, overtaking Mumbai, the country’s financial hub.

India has approved an additional investment of 121.27 million USD (about Rs 909 crore) by the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Ltd (OVL) for further development of two blocks of the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that he has been assured by Russia that ongoing bilateral defence hardware supply contracts would be not only maintained but in a number of cases taken forward faster.

The documents connected with imports to and export from India will become fully electronic by this year-end, eliminating the need for human interface.

The Indian and Chinese army reached a consensus to "disengage" from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh at a marathon meeting of top military commanders from both sides on Monday, the Indian media reported today.

A 12-year-old Bangladeshi boy, a suspected victim of human trafficking, has been found by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in a railway wagon at Petrapole in West Bengal, and handed over to Indian Railway police.

Amidst rising border tension with China, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today embarked on a three-day visit to Russia during which he will hold talks with top Russian military brass.

India and China on Saturday each traded accusations that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of the deadliest clash in half a century between the two nuclear-armed giants.

A Pakistani drone is shot down by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) along the international border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, says officials.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the country’s armed forces have been given a free reign to take necessary steps to deal with the situation in Ladakh as he secured the backing of all opposition parties.