India will provide two lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to UN peacekeepers as gifts, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has announced.

A delegation of senior diplomats of 24 countries, including Bangladesh, began a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir for making an assessment of the situation post the abrogation of the erstwhile state's special status in 2019.

India’s enforcement directorate today said it has attached more than 17 crore rupees bank deposits in connection with its case of alleged money laundering against two entities of Amnesty International (India).

India has detected both the South African and Brazilian coronavirus variants and people returning from those countries may be tested more aggressively, health officials said on Tuesday.

At least 37 people, including 16 women and one child, were killed as a bus carrying them fell into a canal in Sidhi district of India’s Madhya Pradesh this morning, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

Britain’s drug regulator is auditing manufacturing processes at Serum Institute of India (SII) which could pave the way for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be shipped from there to the UK and other countries, according to two sources close to the matter.

Indian politicians and activists condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of sedition for helping edit an online document that Sweden’s Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country.

Sparking a fresh row, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said Home Minister Amit Shah, as party's national president, had once shared plans for expansion of Bharatiya Janata Party’s base in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

India has offered Covid-19 vaccines to Bangladesh Armed Forces, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami today.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters.

Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India today, a week after the disaster struck, bringing the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said.

The Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, has said his government will not implement the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Fourteen people, including eight women and a child, were killed and four others injured as a minibus collided with a lorry in Kurnool district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh early today, police said.

Jammu and Kashmir will get back the state status at “an appropriate time,” Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck near Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab with tremors and aftershocks in several parts of northwest India.

India has won plaudits for gifting and selling Covid-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.

At least 15 workers were killed and more than 30 injured as an explosion ripped through a firecracker factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said.

India will start granting citizenship to refugees under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) after the Covid-19 vaccination process ends, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said today.

A special court in Kolkata sentenced Kausar alias "Boma Mizan", a leader of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, to 29 years’ imprisonment in a case filed over explosion at a house in West Bengal's Burdwan district in October 2014.

Indian rescuers today penetrated deeper through tonnes of rocks and slush to reach 35 power project workers trapped inside a tunnel as the toll in the glacial burst and flash flood in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 32.