India will have nearly 120 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines available for domestic use in June, the government said on Sunday.

Monsoon rains are likely to hit India's southern coast around May 31, in line with typical patterns, the state-run India Meteorological Department said in its latest forecast on Sunday.

Prone to cyclones, the eastern Indian state of Odisha has decided to include disaster and pandemic management in the curricula of high school and college.

India reported on Saturday 173,790 new coronavirus infections during the previous 24 hours, its lowest daily rise in 45 days, while deaths rose by 3,617.

India yesterday invited Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, currently residing in five Indian states to apply for Indian citizenship.

Eleven days after their arrest by CBI in Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft, senior West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee were granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court yesterday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced that process to lift the city’s month-long Covid-19 induced lockdown will start from May 31.

The Calcutta High Court today granted interim bail to two West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, TMC legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation in Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft.

The Halda river, the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia, has seen a poor yield of eggs mainly due to heavy salinity in the river water this year.

India today termed a recent report in the New York Times (NYT) on the estimated Covid-19 death count in India as “completely baseless and false.”

India’s capital Delhi reported its first case of white fungus, which causes multiple perforations in the intestine of a Covid-19 patient, doctors in a leading private hospital said today.

In a supposed goof-up by Indian health workers, 20 people were given a mix of Covid-19 vaccines Covaxin and Covishield at a village in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

India currently has 11,717 patients of black fungus under treatment, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda said today.

WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said.

Very severe cyclone Yaas today made landfall near Dhamra port in eastern Indian state Odisha's Bhadrak district, the Indian Met Department said.

India’s official tally of daily infections of coronavirus fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks in the past 24 hours, offering hope that a devastating second wave is ebbing, but government leaders said shortages of vaccines were a big concern.

An Indian couple chartered a passenger jet to stage a mid-air wedding that hijacked coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests.

Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant’s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media”.

On May 25, Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra was shifted to Calcutta where it started functioning the same day.

Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall in Balasore district in India’s eastern state of Odisha around noon on May 26.