Veteran Bengali novelist Debesh Roy -- a fierce fighter against communalism who was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for his novel 'Teesta Parer Brittanto' -- dies at a private hospital in Kolkata, his family members say.

India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a complete economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore, which is nearly 10 percent of the country’s GDP, to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and help the country achieve self-reliance.

India’s state-owned Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and its constituent lab National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) in Bangalore have developed a non-invasive ventilator to treat Covid-19 patients.

The condition of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, is stated to be stable.

India has announced a plan to gradually restart limited passenger train movement from tomorrow as the country moves to further ease its Covid-19 lockdown imposed a month and halfago.

Former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh is admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi after he complained of uneasiness.

A total of 302 Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India and South Korea amid flight suspensions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, return home on separate special flights.

Troops of India and China were locked in a skirmish and many of them sustained minor injuries in a physical combat near Naku La in North Sikkim sector along the Sino-India border yesterday, said official sources.

India has rejected Nepal’s claim that a road recently opened to facilitate pilgrims’ travel to Kailash-Manasarovar in Tibet passes through Nepalese territory and asserted that the area lies completely within Indian borders.

India today began transporting essential commodities by railways, weeks after bilateral trade was hampered due to the coronavirus pandemic.

An order by the police in West Bengal, asking its personnel to play a “Covid-19 awareness song” penned by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Rabindranath Tagore's 159th birth anniversary, has sparked a row in the state.

Indian government-run Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its green signal to a multi-institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that it claims can neutralise coronavirus in patients.

As part of its biggest ever repatriation exercise dubbed as “Vande Bharat Mission”, India has begun repatriating citizens who were stranded globally -- including Bangladesh -- due to lockdown imposed to check the spread of coronavirus infection.

At least six people, including a child, have been killed and around 100 hospitalised after a gas leak at a chemicals plant in Visakhapatnam in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

A top commander of a banned terrorist outfit, who was on the run for eight years, was killed in an “encounter” with security forces in his native village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials say.

India sends emergency medical assistance consisting of 30,000 RT-PCR Covid-19 test kits to Bangladesh under the Saarc Covid-19 Emergency Fund.

In the steepest spike witnessed so far, India has recorded 195 deaths, 3,900 cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 1,568 and number of infections to 46,433, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

India chooses to name their home-developed Covid-19 test kit after Satyajit Ray’s immortal fictional character ‘Feluda’.

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service.