A 34-year-old Covid-19 patient who has recovered was diagnosed with “Green Fungus” (Aspergillosis) in central Indian state Madhya Pradesh's Indore city. This is possibly the first case of this type of virus in the country, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mithun Chakraborty was today questioned by Kolkata Police over his controversial speech during the campaign for recent West Bengal assembly elections.

With only about four crore people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, India has decided to establish a tracking platform to assess the impact of its vaccination programme and evaluate the degree of protection when someone is fully or partially immunized.

The Indian government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific group that it said recommended the increase, three members of the advisory body told Reuters.

A committee of experts set up by the Indian government to study the side effects of Covid-19 vaccines has confirmed the death of a 68-year-old man who died due to a severe allergic reaction immediately after vaccination -- also known as anaphylaxis -- on March 8, according to a report submitted by the National Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) Committee.

Two Indian senior opposition leaders -- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress and Bahujan Samajwadi Party supremo Mayawati -- today demanded probe into the death of a TV journalist who recently reported on the “liquor mafia” in Uttar Pradesh state.

The Editors Guild of India today alleged the Uttar Pradesh police did not pay heed to the concerns of a TV journalist who died in a road accident on Sunday and said journalists critical of the central and state governments “are being targeted and unjustifiably charged with sedition cases”.

India reported 70,421 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the lowest in one and half months.

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) launched a Global video blogging competition: “My Life My Yoga” in June 2020.

India’s national capital Delhi today announced another major round of easing Covid-19-induced restrictions, joining a number of other states which are opening up in a regulated manner after stringent lockdowns.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a strong push for the G7's support for the proposal moved at the WTO by India and South Africa for a patent waiver on Covid-19 related technologies.

India today reported the highest single-day death toll from Covid-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at home or in private hospitals.

At least 11 people, including eight children, died after a Mumbai residential building collapsed on top of another building late on Wednesday, local officials said.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the lawsuit filed by actor-environmentalist Juhi Chawla against the setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country, and also imposed a fine of Rs 20 lakh for the abuse of the process of law.

Indian scientists have come up with a promising technique for early detection of development or strengthening of tropical cyclones in the atmosphere for the Bay of Bengal basin, at least four days before satellite detects them over ocean surface in North Indian Ocean region.

A remote village in Bandipora district of India’s Jammu and Kashmir has become the first area in the country to vaccinate its entire adult population against Covid-19, officials said today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that his government will give free Covid-19 vaccines to all Indians in the 18-44 age group free of cost from June 21.

Serum Institute of India has got Drug Controller General of India's green signal to manufacture Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in the country for examination, test and analysis with certain conditions, official sources said today.

India has decided to extend the validity of its visa or stay stipulation period for foreign nationals, who are stuck in that country due to Covid-19 induced suspension of normal international flights, from June 30 to August 31.

The United States on Thursday told India about its plans to make COVID-19 vaccines available to other countries, including the South Asian nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office said.