INS Savitri, an Indian Navy offshore patrol vessel, arrived in Chattogram yesterday to deliver two mobile oxygen plants (MOP) each with a capacity of generating 960 litres of oxygen per minute.

India reported the biggest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases in two months yesterday, as the government worries about the virus spreading from the most-affected Kerala state, schools reopening, and the start of the festival season.

India’s ambassador to Qatar held talks with a top Taliban leader yesterday, the Indian foreign ministry said, the first formal diplomatic engagement since the hardline Islamist group took over Afghanistan.

Delhi Disaster Management Authorities yesterday announced guidelines including setting up of quarantine room for emergency use and staggered lunch-break as schools, colleges and coaching centres across Delhi resume in-person classes from September 1 after a nearly five-month hiatus.

Flood waters rose across northeastern India yesterday, where hundreds of thousands of people are stranded on the roofs of their homes or have fled to higher ground as more torrential rain fell.

As schools, colleges and coaching centres across Indian capital Delhi resume physical classes from September 1, after nearly five months’ closure due to Covid-19, Delhi Disaster Management Authorities today announced guidelines including setting up of quarantine rooms for emergency use.

India yesterday reported 46,759 new coronavirus infections, the most in nearly two months, as cases surged in the southern state of Kerala after a big festival.

India’s Enforcement Directorate has summoned Trinamool Congress lawmaker Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief

At least three Indian states are denying passports and government jobs to people because of their social media posts or participation in protests, human rights activists said.

India has asked the states of Kerala and Maharashtra to consider night curfews in areas with high Covid-19 case numbers as the country reported more than 40,000 new infections for two days in a row yesterday.

India has administered at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to half its eligible adult population of 94 crore, as it crossed 61.10 crore cumulative vaccinations across the country.

India's most populous state will drop legal proceedings against farmers accused of burning crop waste, a major source of pollution, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party tries to placate growers ahead of elections next year to the state assembly.

India will supply millions of additional Covid-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said yesterday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.

Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization Soumya Swaminathan today said India may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is a low or moderate level of Covid-19 transmission.

India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said on Wednesday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.

Indian pharmaceutical firm Gennova Biopharmaceuticals’ Covid-19 vaccine, the first homegrown mRNA-based shot, was found to be safe and effective in an early-stage study, the government said yesterday.

India’s capital New Delhi opened its first “smog tower” yesterday aimed at reducing the air pollution blamed for thousands of premature deaths every year, but experts were sceptical.

The delay in resumption of flights between India and Bangladesh, under the bilateral air bubble agreement, has come as a big disappointment for leading hospitals and hospitality, tourism sectors in Kolkata and Chennai.

Amidst the ongoing evacuation of its nationals and Hindus and Sikhs from Afghanistan post-Taliban takeover, a senior member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet today said this was why India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act.

India has authorised the emergency use of a second homegrown Covid-19 vaccine, which is also the first approved for children older than 12 in the country.