The West Bengal government has introduced medical screening of passengers at three new points along the border it shares with Bangladesh owing to the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has now spread to many countries.

India reports its second case of deadly novel coronavirus in Kerala, three days after the southern state reported the country's first case of the infectious disease that originated in China.

An unidentified man fired at a protest against India's new citizenship law near a university in Delhi, wounding a student, witnesses say, the first such incident in the capital during more than a month of demonstrations.

India has confirmed a patient in the southern state of Kerala tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the first case in the country of the virus which originated in China and has so far killed 170.

Indian government decides to prepare for possible evacuation of its nationals in Wuhan, the central Chinese province which is the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

West Bengal legislative assembly passes a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), becoming the fourth Indian state to do so.

Indian immigration at Agartala checkpost allegedly refused entry to a Bangladeshi national, owing to his travel to China around two months back.

No case of novel coronavirus (nCoV) has been detected in India, claims the county’s health ministry.

Two Indians, who returned from China, are kept under observation in the isolation ward of a hospital in Mumbai for possible exposure to coronavirus in the wake of an outbreak in China.

A nurse working at a hospital in Saudi Arabia becomes the first Indian to be infected by the deadly coronavirus that rages in China’s Wuhan province and has already left 17 dead so far.

The political standoff between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and those in opposition of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is set to intensify further in the coming weeks.

The condition of veteran Bengali poet and literary critic Shankha Ghosh, who is in hospital, has improved and is now stable, doctors attending him say.

India orders medical check of passengers coming from China to four more airports after Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata as measure to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading.

Seasoned politician Jagat Prakash Nadda is elected unopposed as the President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is set to be handed over the baton by his powerful predecessor and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.

Renowned Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi is injured in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway.

After nearly six months, prepaid mobile phone connections are restored in Jammu and Kashmir.

Congress-ruled Punjab state legislative assembly passes a resolution demanding that the Indian government scrap the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), becoming the second state to do so after Marxist-ruled Kerala.

India's latest "high-power" communication satellite GSAT-30, aimed at providing high-quality television, telecommunications and broadcasting services, is successfully launched from French Guiana, the Indian Department of Space says.

Kolkata is often described as a city of protests. Street marches against the amended citizenship law and proposed NRC almost every day for the last month have helped burnish that image of Kolkata.

Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella has joined the chorus against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in India, saying what is happening is "just bad" and he would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant create the next unicorn in India.