India’s Supreme Court today quashed an FIR lodged against noted journalist Vinod Dua for alleged sedition and other offences -- filed by a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Himachal Pradesh state over Dua’s YouTube show.

The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) today moved the Supreme Court against the Indian government’s notification inviting non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan residing in 13 districts of five states to apply for Indian citizenship.

India’s Supreme Court has said it will examine the interpretation of sedition law, particularly in light of media rights and free speech.

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it will be able to manufacture and supply 90 to 100 million doses of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine next month, a senior company official was quoted as saying in a letter to the Indian government.

India will have nearly 120 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines available for domestic use in June, the government said on Sunday.

Monsoon rains are likely to hit India's southern coast around May 31, in line with typical patterns, the state-run India Meteorological Department said in its latest forecast on Sunday.

Prone to cyclones, the eastern Indian state of Odisha has decided to include disaster and pandemic management in the curricula of high school and college.

India reported on Saturday 173,790 new coronavirus infections during the previous 24 hours, its lowest daily rise in 45 days, while deaths rose by 3,617.

India yesterday invited Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, currently residing in five Indian states to apply for Indian citizenship.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced that process to lift the city’s month-long Covid-19 induced lockdown will start from May 31.

The Calcutta High Court today granted interim bail to two West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, TMC legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation in Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft.

India today termed a recent report in the New York Times (NYT) on the estimated Covid-19 death count in India as “completely baseless and false.”

India’s capital Delhi reported its first case of white fungus, which causes multiple perforations in the intestine of a Covid-19 patient, doctors in a leading private hospital said today.

In a supposed goof-up by Indian health workers, 20 people were given a mix of Covid-19 vaccines Covaxin and Covishield at a village in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

India currently has 11,717 patients of black fungus under treatment, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda said today.

WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said.

Very severe cyclone Yaas today made landfall near Dhamra port in eastern Indian state Odisha's Bhadrak district, the Indian Met Department said.

Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant’s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media”.

Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall in Balasore district in India’s eastern state of Odisha around noon on May 26.

India has 5,424 cases of mucormycosis or “black fungus”, the country’s Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said today.