West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been made a party in a petition by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before the Calcutta High Court, seeking transfer of the Narada sting operation case filed on charge of graft by two senior TMC ministers and a key leader of the party.

The number of people from Myanmar seeking shelter in India has swelled to more than 15,000, with more likely to cross over as fighting intensifies in parts Myanmar following a coup, an Indian government official said on Tuesday.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that 269 doctors across the country have lost their lives due to Covid-19 infection in the second wave of coronavirus pandemic as total caseload surged past 25 million yesterday.

A day after their arrest in the Narada bribery case, two senior ministers of West Bengal and a Trinamool Congress leader are set to appeal the Calcutta High Court’s stay on their bail granted by a court in Kolkata.

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday launched its Showcase news platform in India with 30 domestic news publishers, at a time when the country is trying to weed out misinformation surrounding a ferocious second COVID-19 wave.

India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on today, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329.

The Calcutta High Court has frowned upon West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in protest at the office of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Kolkata yesterday after two of her senior ministerial colleagues and a key leader of ruling Trinamool Congress were arrested in a five-year-old case of alleged corruption.

World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan pointed to the “very high” national positivity rate in India, at about 20 percent of tests conducted, as a sign that there could be worse to come.

Nearly 150,000 people were moved from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat to safety on Monday and authorities closed ports and a main airport as the most intense cyclone in more than two decades roared up the west coast.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation today arrested four persons, including two senior West Bengal ministers and a key leader of the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, in Kolkata in connection with a news portal's sting operation related to alleged bribery, officials said.

India reported a smaller rise in daily coronavirus infections for a third straight day yesterday, as the government said it was working to boost vaccine supplies to avert deaths beyond the pandemic toll of more than 270,000.

India is preparing to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas along its western coast as a powerful cyclone is expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning in the state of Gujarat.

Bodies of COVID-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government letter seen by Reuters says, in the first official acknowledgement of the alarming practice, which it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in remote areas.

India will have 51.6 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine procured by the end of July this year, including the 18 crore doses already administered among people, the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said.

The West Bengal government today announced a two-week complete lockdown from tomorrow to check the spread of Covid-19 infections.

The Indian government has sought another time extension from the parliament for framing the rules to implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Home Ministry sources said today.

The European Union's executive on Wednesday called on countries of the bloc to temporarily halt non-essential travel from India, to limit the spread of a Covid-19 variant.

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off Covid-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.

A 43-member ministerial council, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was sworn in yesterday -- eight days after the Trinamool Congress stormed back into power for the third consecutive term following a landslide victory in the state assembly elections.

Coronavirus infections and deaths held close to record daily highs yesterday, increasing calls for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lock down the world’s second-most populous country.