The streets were emptied of people and most modes of transport, and markets downed shutters across India as the country of 130 crore people plunged into an unprecedented shutdown, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for a “Janata Curfew” to help check the spread of coronavirus.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces that her government will provide free food grains under the Public Distribution System for the next six months, which will benefit 7.5 crore people of the state to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, are hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in India's Delhi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals to citizens to observe a self-curfew on March 22 as part of a trial-run to test social isolation to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Four men convicted of the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a New Delhi student will be executed early tomorrow, the victim's lawyer said after a court dismissed a final last-minute petition to delay the hangings.

India reported its first confirmed case of coronavirus in the army with a 34-year-old soldier posted in the Himalayan mountains of Leh in Ladakh testing positive, according to army sources.

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan says he has confined himself to self-quarantine at his residence in New Delhi but tested negative for coronavirus.

Bangabandhu would be remembered for his courage and indelible contribution, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says in a tweet.

India shuts down all educational institutions, gymnasiums, museums, cultural and social centres, swimming pools and theatres till March 31 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A 68-year-old woman died of coronavirus in New Delhi, the Indian government says, in the country’s second death linked to the disease.

Indian authorities order the release of Kashmir’s most prominent politician, Farooq Abdullah, one of dozens of leaders held since August, when the federal government withdrew the troubled region’s autonomy.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposes a strong joint strategy involving SAARC countries to fight the coronavirus threat in the region.

India has reported its first coronavirus death when the test result of a 76-year-old man, who died recently in Kalaburagi district of the southern state of Karnataka, confirmed that he was positive for the virus, the state government says.

Indian government has suspended all visas to India till April 15 as the cases of coronavirus in the country sharply spiked and the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, reports NDTV.

When the legislative assembly of the eastern Indian state of Bihar passed a resolution against the government’s proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) recently, it was not just another state to have done so.

India announces the deferment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka to attend the launch of birth centenary celebrations of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 17, due to the detection of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh.

Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, orders authorities to remove large displays of the names, pictures and addresses of dozens of anti-government protesters, amid fears that they encourage attacks by vigilante mobs.

The Indian government backtracked Saturday after slapping a 48-hour ban on two TV channels for what officials called biased coverage of New Delhi riots.

The number of positive cases of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 in India has risen to 31 with the latest being reported from West Delhi, where the patient has a travel history to Thailand and Malaysia.

All primary schools in Delhi are ordered to be shut till March 31 in view of the coronavirus scare.