Industrialist Anand Mahindra and actor Soni Razdan are among the thousands who are applauding the efforts of Minal Dakhave Bhosale - the virologist behind India's first coronavirus testing kit.

As the 21-day pan-India lockdown completed its first week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apologised to the people for difficulties caused by the restrictions, but asserted that there was no option other than the tough decision to save human lives.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces creation of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund with voluntary contributions from all.

Indian Health Ministry officials maintain there has been no solid evidence of community transmission of COVID-19 in the country as of yet and the infection appeared to be relatively stabilising considering the rate at which it was increasing, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh offers its clarification on a news article titled “India refuses entry to 70 citizens at Benapole check post for coronavirus lockdown” published by The Daily Star on its website on March 24.

A 65-year-old Kashmiri man who tested positive for Covid-19 has died in India’s Srinagar city.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday described doctors and other health staff at the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus as “incarnations of God” and said those harassing them would face police action.

Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh, whose nearly 30-year-old association with Satyajit Ray earned him the title “Boswell with a camera”, dies in Kolkata aged 86.

The number of coronavirus cases in India, which has been put under a 21-day lockdown, rises to 562 while the death toll due to Covid-19 in the country is revised down to nine, according to the health ministry.

Indian immigration at Petrapole checkpost refuses entry to seventy Indian nationals returning from Bangladesh’s Dhaka through the Benapole checkpost.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is freed after nearly eight months of detention.

An Indian freight train derails at the Bangabandhu Bridge west railway station in Sirajganj.

As India remains in a lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, police have evicted protesters from Shaheen Bagh, the ground zero of the recent agitation against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The streets were emptied of people and most modes of transport, and markets downed shutters across India as the country of 130 crore people plunged into an unprecedented shutdown, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for a “Janata Curfew” to help check the spread of coronavirus.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces that her government will provide free food grains under the Public Distribution System for the next six months, which will benefit 7.5 crore people of the state to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, are hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in India's Delhi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals to citizens to observe a self-curfew on March 22 as part of a trial-run to test social isolation to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student will be executed early tomorrow, the victim's lawyer said after a court dismissed a final last-minute petition to delay the hangings.

India reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus in the army with a 34-year-old soldier posted in the Himalayan mountains of Leh in Ladakh testing positive, according to army sources.

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan says he has confined himself to self-quarantine at his residence in New Delhi but tested negative for coronavirus.