302 Bangladeshi nationals return from India, S Korea on special flights

A total of 302 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India and South Korea amid flight suspensions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, return home on separate special flights.
10 May 2020, 11:34 AM

India, China in border skirmish in North Sikkim

Troops of India and China were locked in a skirmish and many of them sustained minor injuries in a physical combat near Naku La in North Sikkim sector along the Sino-India border yesterday, said official sources.
10 May 2020, 08:18 AM

India rejects Nepal’s claim on border road

India has rejected Nepal’s claim that a road recently opened to facilitate pilgrims’ travel to Kailash-Manasarovar in Tibet passes through Nepalese territory and asserted that the area lies completely within Indian borders.
10 May 2020, 04:57 AM

India begins transporting essential commodities to Bangladesh by railways

India today began transporting essential commodities by railways, weeks after bilateral trade was hampered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
9 May 2020, 14:14 PM

BJP condemns Mamata’s ‘virus awareness song’ played on Tagore’s birth anniversary

An order by the police in West Bengal, asking its personnel to play a “Covid-19 awareness song” penned by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Rabindranath Tagore's 159th birth anniversary, has sparked a row in the state.
9 May 2020, 07:04 AM

India’s CSIR to develop Covid-19 antibodies

Indian government-run Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its green signal to a multi-institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that it claims can neutralise coronavirus in patients.
9 May 2020, 05:29 AM

India repatriating stranded nationals, first flight from Bangladesh departed today

As part of its biggest ever repatriation exercise dubbed as “Vande Bharat Mission”, India has begun repatriating citizens who were stranded globally -- including Bangladesh -- due to lockdown imposed to check the spread of coronavirus infection.
8 May 2020, 08:34 AM

6 dead, 100 in hospital after gas leak at India chemical plant

At least six people, including a child, have been killed and around 100 hospitalised after a gas leak at a chemicals plant in Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
7 May 2020, 04:48 AM

Commander of banned group killed in Kashmir ‘encounter’

A top commander of a banned terrorist outfit, who was on the run for eight years, was killed in an “encounter” with security forces in his native village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials say.
6 May 2020, 14:42 PM

India sends 30,000 Covid-19 test kits as part of Saarc initiative

India sends emergency medical assistance consisting of 30,000 RT-PCR Covid-19 test kits to Bangladesh under the Saarc Covid-19 Emergency Fund.
6 May 2020, 13:45 PM

India sees steepest spike in Covid-19 cases: 3,900 infections, 195 deaths in 24hrs

In the steepest spike witnessed so far, India has recorded 195 deaths, 3,900 cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 1,568 and number of infections to 46,433, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
5 May 2020, 19:00 PM

India develops own Covid-19 test kit, names it after Satyajit Ray’s ‘Feluda’

India chooses to name their home-developed Covid-19 test kit after Satyajit Ray’s immortal fictional character ‘Feluda’.
5 May 2020, 16:58 PM

3 photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service.
5 May 2020, 12:03 PM

India to take back its citizens stranded in Bangladesh by air

India will take back its nationals, who are stranded in Bangladesh during the ongoing shutdown enforced due to the coronavirus pandemic, by air.
5 May 2020, 11:06 AM

Migrant workers, police clash in Gujarat as India eases lockdown

Hundreds of migrant workers in India’s Gujarat looking to return home amid the nationwide Covid-19-enforced lockdown clash with police near a village in Surat district.
4 May 2020, 12:52 PM

India lodges protest over Pakistan SC’s order on ‘Gilgit-Baltistan’

India has conveyed its strong protest to Pakistan’s efforts to bring “material change” in Pakistan-occupied territories and asked Islamabad to vacate them.
4 May 2020, 07:40 AM

5 Indian security personnel killed in Jammu-Kashmir encounter

Five Indian security personnel, including a colonel and a major, were killed in an encounter at a village in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir, which also saw the elimination of two terrorists, officials said today.
3 May 2020, 08:02 AM

Lockdown brings to light priceless Satyajit memorabilia

The pan-India lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic has led to coming to light of some priceless memorabilia associated with master director Satyajit Ray at the loft of his house on Bishop Lefroy Road in south Kolkata.
2 May 2020, 09:29 AM

India’s armed forces to conduct fly-pasts, shower petals on hospitals treating Covid-19 patients

India's defence forces will conduct fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft and shower petals from helicopters on hospitals treating coronavirus patients tomorrow in a show of gratitude to doctors, medical staff and other frontline health workers battling the pandemic.
2 May 2020, 05:24 AM

India extends nationwide lockdown for 2 more weeks

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.
1 May 2020, 14:26 PM