India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

International rating agency Fitch has cut India's economic growth projections to 0.8 percent in the current 2020-21 financial year, saying an unparalleled global recession was underway due to disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns.

Even as the number of coronavirus cases in India surged past the 15,000-mark and death toll past 500, the government says several steps for prevention, containment and management of the contagion are yielding good results in 23 states and federally-ruled territories across four districts.

Bangladesh's coast guard says it rescued at least 382 "starving" Rohingya refugees floating in a large boat in the country's territorial waters after nearly two months at sea.

India appears set to extend the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown by two more weeks in a bid to contain the spread of novel coronavirus that has so far claimed 239 lives and affected nearly 7,447 people in the country.

A little over 82 percent of Covid-19 patients in India are below the age of 60 years, according to health ministry data.

Indian immigration at Petrapole checkpost refuses entry to seventy Indian nationals returning from Bangladesh’s Dhaka through the Benapole checkpost.

As India remains in a lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, police have evicted protesters from Shaheen Bagh, the ground zero of the recent agitation against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, are hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in India's Delhi.

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on Southeast Asian countries, including Bangladesh, to urgently scale-up aggressive measures to combat Covid-19, as confirmed cases crossed 480, and the disease claimed eight lives in the region.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government sign a €360 million ($400 million) loan agreement to help upgrade the Dhaka-Northwest international trade corridor in Bangladesh.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposes a strong joint strategy involving SAARC countries to fight the coronavirus threat in the region.

All 112 people, including 23 Bangladeshis, who were admitted to a quarantine facility in India for over a fortnight after their return from China, have tested negative for coronavirus and are expected to be released today, a senior official says.

The number of positive cases of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 in India has risen to 31 with the latest being reported from West Delhi, where the patient has a travel history to Thailand and Malaysia.

Indian government says police have arrested hundreds of people for their alleged involvement in the recent violence in Delhi, while a close watch is being kept on social media platforms to check rumours and unfounded propaganda.

India reports two more cases of coronavirus, including one in New Delhi, taking the number of positive cases to five so far.

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla says India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been misunderstood in many ways, adding that it was undertaken on “humanitarian grounds”.

The United States signs a historic deal with Taliban insurgents that can pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war there.

Sheikh Rehana and Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter and granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, pay homage to the Father of the Nation in Kolkata’s Baker Hostel of Maolana Azad College.

The situation in riot-hit localities of Delhi over a controversial amendment to the citizenship law is slowly returning to normal with no major incidents reported in the 36-hour timeline from Wednesday till last night, the Indian Home Ministry has said.