A substantial fraction of India’s 1.35 billion population currently has immunity against the coronavirus, coupled perhaps with some natural form of immunity, three eminent scientists of the country said quoting serological surveys as well as model predictions.

Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, yesterday urged countries to be patient for supplies of Covid-19 vaccine Covishield as the company has been directed to prioritise the “huge needs” of India.

India has provided 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine as gift to the Maldives.

“Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye” (Bengal wants its own daughter) -- is the new slogan unveiled today by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress portraying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections due in March-April.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today put forward a five-point plan for enhancing collaboration among South Asian countries to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes launching of a special visa scheme for free movement of doctors and nurses.

India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the bomb attack on her ministerial colleague Jakir Hossain was “part of a conspiracy” as certain people were “pressing” him to switch parties.

For the first time, the Indian government has approved financial powers for the entire top brass of the country's armed forces. Earlier, only the chiefs and the vice chiefs of the three services -- the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force -- were allowed to make such decisions.

India will provide two lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to UN peacekeepers as gifts, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has announced.

A delegation of senior diplomats of 24 countries, including Bangladesh, began a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir for making an assessment of the situation post the abrogation of the erstwhile state's special status in 2019.

India’s enforcement directorate today said it has attached more than 17 crore rupees bank deposits in connection with its case of alleged money laundering against two entities of Amnesty International (India).

India has detected both the South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants and people returning from those countries may be tested more aggressively, health officials said on Tuesday.

At least 37 people, including 16 women and one child, were killed as a bus carrying them fell into a canal in Sidhi district of India’s Madhya Pradesh this morning, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Fallout from a devastating flash flood in a remote north Indian valley hit the capital New Delhi more than 500 kilometres downstream yesterday, when water supplies were cut to tens of thousands of residents.

Britain’s drug regulator is auditing manufacturing processes at Serum Institute of India (SII) which could pave the way for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be shipped from there to the UK and other countries, according to two sources close to the matter.

Indian politicians and activists condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of sedition for helping edit an online document that Sweden’s Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country.

Sparking a fresh row, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said Home Minister Amit Shah, as party's national president, had once shared plans for expansion of Bharatiya Janata Party’s base in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

India has offered Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh Armed Forces, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami today.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters.

Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India today, a week after the disaster struck, bringing the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said.

The Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has said his government will not implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).