International rating agency Fitch has cut India's economic growth projections to 0.8 percent in the current 2020-21 financial year, saying an unparalleled global recession was underway due to disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns.

In the backdrop of a number of attacks on healthcare workers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic across India, the Indian cabinet today approved an ordinance amending an existing law to provide for stringent punishment -- including up to seven years imprisonment and Rs five lakh fine -- for perpetrators of such assaults.

A team of Indian researchers are making the fictional world collide with the scientific one by naming a new species of snake they discovered -- "Trimeresurus Salazar" -- after Salazar Slytherin of Harry Potter.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate a special flight from New Delhi on Friday to bring back Bangladeshi nationals who have been stranded in India for around a month due to the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 100 families residing at the President's Estate of India, which houses the Rashtrapati Bhavan, went on self-isolation after a sanitation worker's relative tested positive for coronavirus, officials say.

India’s state-owned Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is initiating a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a drug, which is meant for saving lives of critically ill patients suffering from Gram-negative sepsis, to reduce the deaths of critically ill Covid-19 patients.

India has decided to allow the use of surplus rice stored in government godowns to make alcohol-based hand sanitisers, as its demand has soared in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hundred and sixty-four Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, return home.

India has rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks alleging the targeting of Muslims in the country in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

On the eve of India entering the 26th straight day of a nationwide lockdown forced by Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the contagion has significantly changed the contours of professional life and trade and calls for new office and business models.

India has tightened its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy, making mandatory its prior approval for foreign investments from bordering countries to curb "opportunistic takeovers" of domestic firms following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Indian health ministry says the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was doubling has slowed post the nationwide lockdown.

The Indian home ministry asks all states to trace and medically screen all Rohingya Muslim refugees in the country over concerns that they may have attended Tablighi Jamaat’s congregation and Ijtema resulting into contraction of coronavirus.

A total of seventy-seven Bangladeshis stranded in India due to the coronavirus outbreak return to the country through Benapole check post in Jashore.

The three-week lockdown across India which was imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus has been extended till May 3, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces.

The three-week coronavirus-induced lockdown across India may have cost the national economy Rs 7-8 lakh crore, analysts and industry bodies say.

India’s 25 districts in 15 states, where Covid-19 cases were detected earlier, have contained the spread as there are no reports of new infections in the last 14 days, the country’s health ministry said.

India will extend visa of foreign nationals including Bangladeshis -- whose visas have expired since February 1 or would expire on April 30 for being stranded in the country due to lockdown for coronavirus pandemic -- till April 30 free of cost.

As India mulls extending the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak by two more weeks, the country’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has proposed that labour-intensive industries be allowed to resume operations at 20-25 percent capacity with strict adherence to social distancing and sanitisation norms.

The West Bengal government has announced extension of the state-wide lockdown till April 30 and closure of all educational institutes till June 10 as the state registered six new Covid-19 cases, taking the total to 122.