After US drug-maker Pfizer, Serum Institute of India (SII) has approached the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), seeking authorisation for emergency use of the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine in the country.

Pfizer India has become the first pharmaceutical company to seek permission from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for emergency use of its Covid-19 vaccine in the country, after its parent company secured the clearance for the same in the UK and Bahrain.

India’s government has failed to break a deadlock with farmers protesting over agricultural reforms and will meet again, the agriculture minister and union leaders say.

Indian state Haryana’s health minister Anil Vij has tested positive for Covid-19, nearly 14 days after he was administered the first dose of India’s indigenous vaccine candidate Covaxin during a trial.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today revised upward its projection of the country’s real GDP growth after being hit by coronavirus and lockdown, saying it sees the economy contracting by 7.5 percent from an earlier estimation of a 9.5 percent contraction.

The construction work of "India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project" was inaugurated in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur today.

Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a Muslim man for allegedly trying to convert a Hindu woman to Islam, according to a report published by Deutsche Welle (DW).

Indian health officials have said there was never any talk of vaccinating the country’s entire 1.3 billion population with Covid-19 vaccine and indicated that the purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission by inoculating a “critical mass of people.”

India is considering a plan to build a 10 gigawatts (GW) hydropower project in a remote eastern state, an Indian official said on Tuesday, following reports that China could construct dams on a section of the Brahmaputra river.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), which is the manufacturing partner of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, today said its vaccine candidate for the virus is “safe and immunogenic”.

India has rejected the references to recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir in resolutions adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at its meeting in Niger as “factually incorrect, gratuitous and unwarranted”.

At least one lakh vaccinators are likely to be deployed to administer Covid-19 vaccines in the first phase to an estimated 30 crore people including frontline workers and health care staff across India in the first half of 2020.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said it is India’s duty to assist other countries, including those in its neighbourhood, in the collective fight against the novel coronavirus.

Voters in Indian-administered Kashmir went to the polls Saturday amid a heavy security presence in the first direct elections in the disputed region since the government stripped its semi-autonomy last year.

India deployed hundreds of police and paramilitary forces at a New Delhi border on Saturday as thousands of farmers from neighbouring states blocked major roads into the capital, in protest against recent agricultural deregulation.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Mohammad Imran will be part of a team of top diplomats from South Asia and Latin America, who will visit the facilities manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines in the western Indian city of Pune on Friday.

Forest officials in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state said on Friday they used a crane to pull an elephant from a well, after working for more than 12 hours to rescue the animal.

Border Security Force (BSF) commandant Satish Kumar was arrested by Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged involvement in a cattle smuggling racket operating at the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, NDTV reports quoting PTI.

India’s import of rice bran oil from Bangladesh is set to double in the current financial year 2020-21, according to BV Mehta, executive director of Solvent Extractors’ Association of India.

Soumitra Chatterjee, one of Bengal’s foremost actors, was cremated today with full state honours as hundreds of Kolkatans gave a tearful farewell.