India appears set to extend the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown by two more weeks in a bid to contain the spread of novel coronavirus that has so far claimed 239 lives and affected nearly 7,447 people in the country.

India will do everything possible to help the humanity's fight against Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets.

India’s Supreme Court orders that Covid-19 tests in approved government or private laboratories should be conducted free of cost.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made it clear that the ongoing three-week nationwide lockdown was unlikely to be lifted in one go on April 14 as the country has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

India announces that it will supply two key medicines — paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine — to its neighbouring countries and some other nations badly hit by the pandemic, to bolster the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

India’s President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and all members of the Indian parliament voluntarily decide to take a 30 percent cut in their pay and allowances for a year from April 1, 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak and the expected adverse effect on the economy.

India’s national airlines -- Air India -- which is ferrying European and Canadian citizens stuck in India amid nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, has garnered praise from Pakistan’s Air Traffic Controller (ATC) while flying over the country.

A little over 82 percent of Covid-19 patients in India are below the age of 60 years, according to health ministry data.

India yesterday reported its biggest jump in number of new coronavirus cases as top doctors warned of an “onslaught” that could cripple the health system to levels far beyond what Europe and the United States are experiencing.

In a noble gesture, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan offers his four-storey office in Mumbai to be used for treating Covid-19 patients.

Twelve Bangladeshi nationals have been sued in India on charges of violation of the country’s tourist visa, officials said.

The Bangladeshis stranded in India following the nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak will have to wait till the lockdown is relaxed to return, officials concerned say.

India has decided to allow transit arrangements for foreign nationals who are stranded in the country following the coronavirus outbreak and the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

All students from grades I to VIII in schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of India will be promoted to the next class as their final examinations could not be held due to Covid-19 and the three-week lockdown, says an order passed by the Indian government.

A state-run scientific research institution of India claims to have developed an anti-microbial coating that could kill a range of virus types including Covid-19 when applied on different surfaces such as textile and plastic.

With reports of one more death and five new cases in West Bengal, there has been a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 –affected patients during the past few days in the state of India.

Amidst concerns that the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 would economically impact India, the government in the southern state of Telangana has decided to implement pay-cuts for government employees and pensioners.

Bangladesh is currently weighing all options to bring back several hundred of its citizens stuck in India during the 21-day lockdown that was enforced there since March 24 following the global outbreak of coronavirus.

Police in western India fire tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry.

The Indian government has said it has no plans to extend the 21-day nationwide lockdown, which ends on April 14, to check the spread of coronavirus.