Every Indian will now get a digital health ID, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday as he launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

India's Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General C P Mohanty,  has said that if India hadn't invested in its armed forces, then the country would have lost the battles against encroaching Chinese troops in Galwan and Doklam in the Ladakh region

Declaring that “we're launching a new chapter in the history of US-Indian ties and taking on some of the toughest challenges we face together,” US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed at their first in-person summit a fast-changing world throwing up problems and new issues at dizzying speeds

The Indian Army will add to its armoury 118 new Arjun Mk-1A battle tanks, which have superior firepower, all-terrain mobility and multi-layered protection compared to older models. Arjun has been a mainstay of the Indian Army for the last 15 years

Signalling greater strategic cooperation between the two Asian and Indo-Pacific powers, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Yoshihide Suga have agreed to promote defence and security cooperation between India and Japan when they met in Washington on the eve of the Quad Summit that brings together the four major democracies of the Indo-Pacific region

Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison of Australia have met in Washington ahead of the Quad Summit to discuss their countries' bilateral relations, especially defence partnerships given their importance as bulwarks of democracy in the Indo-Pacific region

No other country managed to do what India did in terms of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court of India said on Thursday, in rich praise for the government, as it reserved the order on a case involving the Rs 50,000 compensation proposed by the government for COVID-19 deaths

Before leaving for the United States on Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that his visit was an “occasion to strengthen strategic partnership with the US and consolidate ties with Japan and Australia

Covishield is now an approved vaccine on the UK's revised guidelines for travel after a furious India warned of "reciprocal measures", but double-vaccinated Indians still have to quarantine because of "vaccination certification issues", according to UK officials

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held significant discussions on Tuesday with leaders of France, whose relations with the United States is fraying over Washington's actions in the region

The UK government's decision to not recognise Covishield as a legitimate anti-Covid vaccine is "discriminatory" and it is within the country's "right to take reciprocal measures" if the matter was not resolved, India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla warned Tuesday, saying this move impacts Indian citizens travelling to that country

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar raised with Britain's new Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss her country's rules that require vaccinated Indian travellers to be quarantined - which Indians see as discriminatory - and urged an early resolution of the issue

In what will be good news for many countries around the world, India will resume the export and gifting of surplus vaccines from next month, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Monday

Indian politicians Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, both belonging to the opposition Congress party,  Monday spoke out against the UK government’s decision to consider people vaccinated in India, Africa, South America and several other countries as unvaccinated, and make them go through a 10-day quarantine

India did over 25 million covid vaccinations in a day for the first time on Friday as the government raced to deliver a record on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday