The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.

The Indian government has hinted that the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 would be extended beyond May 3, but with "considerable relaxations" for people and services in many districts.

An Indian government-run institute for medical sciences and technology claims to have developed a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 which can detect the contagion in 10 minutes.

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer, his brother Randhir Kapoor says.

Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people stuck in different parts of India, were allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions as of today.

Irrfan Khan, one of the most talented Indian actors who essayed a wide variety of roles including in Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi’s “Doob”, dies in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 54.

India will be self-reliant in producing indigenous rapid tests and diagnostic kits for Covid-19 by May-end, making it possible to conduct one lakh tests a day, said the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

National airliner Biman Bangladesh Airlines and private air operator US-Bangla Airlines will operate six special flights from India to bring back around 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis from the neighbouring country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.

The man, who entered India’s Assam by swimming across river, did not go there “for Covid-19 treatment”, and he is “mentally challenged”, says Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official, local council representatives and doctors.

An Indian woman has been allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she was quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, a police official says.

India hands over its second tranche of emergency medical supplies containing 1,00,000 Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets and 50,000 sterile surgical latex gloves to Bangladesh to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

Two Chinese pharma companies that supplied 5.5 lakh rapid testing kits to India for Covid-19 said they are ready to cooperate with Indian agencies probing allegations of poor accuracy of their products.

In a late night order easing Covid-19 lockdown curbs, the Indian government allows the reopening of neighbourhood and stand-alone shops, including those located in residential complexes in municipal areas, but at 50 percent strength of workers and taking necessary precautions.

India is going to almost double its present daily capacity of conducting tests for coronavirus infection by the end of next month, said Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

India records 1,684 new Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, the highest in that time span so far, bringing the total number of cases to 23,077.

India is going to almost double its present daily capacity of conducting tests for coronavirus infection by the end of next month, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

India has succeeded in minimising coronavirus transmission in 30 days of the lockdown so far, the country’s health ministry says.