All students from grades I to VIII in schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of India will be promoted to the next class as their final examinations could not be held due to Covid-19 and the three-week lockdown, says an order passed by the Indian government.

A state-run scientific research institution of India claims to have developed an anti-microbial coating that could kill a range of virus types including Covid-19 when applied on different surfaces such as textile and plastic.

With reports of one more death and five new cases in West Bengal, there has been a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 –affected patients during the past few days in the state of India.

Amidst concerns that the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 would economically impact India, the government in the southern state of Telangana has decided to implement pay-cuts for government employees and pensioners.

Bangladesh is currently weighing all options to bring back several hundred of its citizens stuck in India during the 21-day lockdown that was enforced there since March 24 following the global outbreak of coronavirus.

Police in western India fire tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry.

The Indian government has said it has no plans to extend the 21-day nationwide lockdown, which ends on April 14, to check the spread of coronavirus.

Industrialist Anand Mahindra and actor Soni Razdan are among the thousands who are applauding the efforts of Minal Dakhave Bhosale - the virologist behind India's first coronavirus testing kit.

As the 21-day pan-India lockdown completed its first week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has apologised to the people for difficulties caused by the restrictions, but asserted that there was no option other than the tough decision to save human lives.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces creation of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund with voluntary contributions from all.

Indian Health Ministry officials maintain there has been no solid evidence of community transmission of COVID-19 in the country as of yet and the infection appeared to be relatively stabilising considering the rate at which it was increasing, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh offers its clarification on a news article titled “India refuses entry to 70 citizens at Benapole check post for coronavirus lockdown” published by The Daily Star on its website on March 24.

A 65-year-old Kashmiri man who tested positive for Covid-19 has died in India’s Srinagar city.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday described doctors and other health staff at the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus as “incarnations of God” and said those harassing them would face police action.

Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh, whose nearly 30-year-old association with Satyajit Ray earned him the title “Boswell with a camera”, dies in Kolkata aged 86.

The number of coronavirus cases in India, which has been put under a 21-day lockdown, rises to 562 while the death toll due to Covid-19 in the country is revised down to nine, according to the health ministry.

Indian immigration at Petrapole checkpost refuses entry to seventy Indian nationals returning from Bangladesh’s Dhaka through the Benapole checkpost.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is freed after nearly eight months of detention.

An Indian freight train derails at the Bangabandhu Bridge west railway station in Sirajganj.

As India remains in a lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, police have evicted protesters from Shaheen Bagh, the ground zero of the recent agitation against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.