India records more than 10,000 new cases in a 24-hour span for the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Allahabad High Court today granted interim bail to six Bangladeshis booked for allegedly misusing tourist visa by attending the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhi in March and then going to Lucknow without medical examination amidst serious apprehension of spreading coronavirus during the lockdown.

US-Bangla Airlines has repatriated 45 Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to suspension of regular passenger flights on international routes due to Covid-19 – to New Delhi by a special chartered flight today.

A prominent politician in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who tested positive for coronavirus infection, dies in a hospital in Chennai, becoming India's first sitting legislator to fall victim to the contagion.

India’s private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh has said.

In a virtual launch of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for next year’s assembly elections in West Bengal, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today raised the issue of the amended Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and rebuked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her opposition to the law.

Seeking to facilitate availability of experimental drugs for severely-ill Covid-19 patients, the Indian Health Ministry has issued a draft notification for manufacture, import and "compassionate use" of any unapproved drug that is in the phase-III (human) of clinical trial globally.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has gone into self-isolation and will get himself tested for coronavirus tomorrow.

Fresh coronavirus cases soar to a new high in India in the last 24 hours, taking the total past 2.56 lakh, while malls, restaurants and shrines are set to reopen in several areas across the country.

Taking cognisance of the death of a pregnant wild elephant at Silent Valley Forest in the southern state of Kerala, India’s National Green Tribunal forms a committee and directed it to submit an action-taken report on the matter.

After talks between top military officers, India and China have agreed to peacefully resolve the standoff between the two armies in the western Himalayas, in accordance with various bilateral agreements.

India overtakes Italy to become the sixth worst-hit country by the Covid-19 pandemic, registering a record single-day spike of 9,887 cases which pushes the total nationwide tally to 2,36,657.

The pregnant elephant, which died after in India’s Kerala after reportedly eating a crackers-stuffed pineapple, suffered major wounds in its oral cavity and starved for two weeks before dying, according to a post-mortem report made public.

With a total of 25,000 cases and death toll of 650, the current coronavirus situation in India’s national capital Delhi is “worrisome,” Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says.

The death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala after it ate a pineapple full of explosives will be probed by the government, India’s Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar has tweeted.

In an act of indescribable brutality, a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala's Silent Valley forest dies after eating a pineapple stuffed with powerful crackers offered by a man, a senior forest officer say.

Mumbai authorities ordered offices and factories to shut and people to stay home Wednesday, reversing a move to ease a coronavirus lockdown as the Indian megacity faced its first cyclone in more than 70 years.

At least 100,000 people, including some coronavirus patients, are being moved to safer locations according to officials, as India's west coast braced for a cyclone, the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have discussed over telephone the ongoing border tension between India and China, and the civil disturbances in the US over the death of a black man in police custody.

India is “very far away from the peak” as far as the spread of Covid-19 infection is concerned and preventive measures taken to check the spread have been very effective, the government said today.