Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla today said his company has applied for the start of trials of another Covid-19 vaccine, Covovax, which it hopes to launch by June.

India blocked mobile internet services in several areas surrounding New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

Indian farmers began a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in protest against new agricultural laws after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured.

A minor improvised explosive device blast took place outside the Israeli embassy in the heart of central Delhi this evening, but there were no casualties or injuries, the police said.

India’s opposition Congress lawmaker and writer Shashi Tharoor and six journalists have been booked by police on charges of sedition, among other charges, over the violence during farmers' tractor rally in Delhi on January 26, officials said.

Tourists in Kashmir’s Gulmarg ski resort have a new place to chill out - an igloo cafe that serves hot food and drink on tables made of ice and snow.

President of West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Dilip Ghosh alleged in a Facebook post today that state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was trying to create a “Greater Bangladesh” by raising “Jai Bangla” slogan at her public meetings.

A line of tractors stood ready at dawn on Tuesday to move out of a protest site near New Delhi where thousands of farmers had been camping for the last two months and rallying against farm reforms they say will hurt them and benefit large private firms.

India has decided to retain its ban on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps after reviewing responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

Indian police today used tear gas on groups of protesting farmers who attempted to break through barricades at Delhi's Mukarba Chowk.

The widely popular song “Shono ekti Mujiborer theke/Lokkho Mujiborer” played by the Bangladesh military band resonated across New Delhi’s Rajpath as the country’s armed forces contingent participated for the first time in India’s 72nd Republic Day parade today. Bangladesh Armed Forces contingent participates in India’s republic day parade.

India’s Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has approved a proposal to levy a “green tax” on old vehicles polluting the environment, an official statement said today.

The wealth of India's top billionaires increased by Rs 12,97,822 crore, or 35 percent, during the Covid-19 lockdown since March last year and this amount is enough to give 13.8 crore poorest Indians a cheque for Rs 94,045 each, according to the latest report of Oxfam.

As India is all set to hold Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Tuesday, 122 personnel of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, for the first time, will march on Rajpath alongside their Indian counterparts at the main event, reviving memories of how Muktijoddhas and the Indian army fought shoulder-to-shoulder in the 1971 Liberation War.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today suggested that a vast country like India should have four capitals on a rotation basis.

Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine against Covid-19, showed enhanced immune response without any serious side effects in the participants of phase one trial, according to results published in reputed medical journal “The Lancet Infectious Diseases” yesterday.

Indian farmers on Friday rejected an offer by the government to defer three farm reform laws for one-and-half years, warning they would step up protests as they seek a repeal of the laws and a guarantee on minimum crop prices.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today thanked her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for sending the Oxford vaccine produced in India as a gift for Bangladesh.

A fire has broken out again in the same building of Serum Institute of India in Pune where five people were killed in a blaze in the afternoon today.

Two persons have died after they were administered Covid-19 vaccines on the first day of the vaccination drive across India but at least one of the deaths is not connected to the vaccination according to the post mortem report, India’s Health Ministry said tonight.