Tropical storm Nisarga is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 18 hours and make landfall close to India’s financial and entertainment hub Mumbai tomorrow, the Indian Met department said today.

As many as 20 people have reportedly died due to landslides in three southern districts of Assam as incessant rains lashed the northeastern state in the wake of pre-monsoon floods.

As India entered the second day of the phased exit from coronavirus-induced lockdown, the death toll due to the contagion rises to 5,598 across the country.

India has begun preparing a national forecast model to help monitor the future transmission of Covid-19 and assist governments in decision-making on readiness of the national health systems and other mitigation measures.

India has extended the nationwide shutdown till June 30 as coronavirus cases have spiked in the country.

West Bengal Police have arrested a top operative of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), wanted in cases filed with Bangladeshi police stations and also allegedly involved in a blast at a key Buddhist shrine in India in 2018, from a hideout in Murshidabad district.

India today recorded the highest single-day spike in the number of fresh coronavirus deaths and positive cases.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed his first year in office in his second successive tenure, he acknowledged the tremendous suffering of the poor and vulnerable due to the nationwide coronavirus-induced lockdown, but called for ensuring that “inconveniences do not turn into disasters.”

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities say.

Chief Minister of the Indian state of Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb has said ships from the state and Bangladesh will begin to ply the new waterways on the river Gomati within three months.

The Indian government-run Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) succeeds in establishing stable cultures of coronavirus from patients’ samples, in a development virologists say could help develop a vaccine against the contagion.

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) write a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking her intervention for early resumption of trade with Bangladesh through land ports, which has remained suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak.

India reports its highest 24-hour spike of novel coronavirus cases, with 7,466 recorded in a day, according to the country’s health ministry.

Bangladeshi singer Mainul Ahsan Noble has been sued in Indian state Tripura for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.

Indian security forces have averted a major car bomb attack by detecting and defusing a vehicle fitted with improvised explosive devices (IED) in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Rapid antibody tests for Covid-19 are for surveillance purpose only, an Indian High Court noted today and said a final decision on conducting such tests in containment zones across Maharashtra is to be taken by the state government.

China has announced its decision to pull out its citizens -- including students, tourists and businessmen -- from India who are facing “difficulties” in the country and want to return home in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

A Bangladeshi barge carrying fly ash sank in a river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district today after hitting a submerged pontoon jetty damaged by cyclone Amphan.

India overtakes Iran to become one of the 10 worst-hit nations as it recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus positive cases for the fourth consecutive day with 6,977 new patients across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to nearly 1.38 lakh cases.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 6,767 new patients in the last 24 hours.