Village, villagers and migrants - the tone of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Rs 50,000 cr Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan Yojna - a rural mega job scheme targeted at returnee migrant workers was loud and clear

India's Border security force (BSF) on Saturday shot down a Pakistani drone carrying weapons in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district

Hospitals are the battleground against the COVID-19 pandemic. While the doctors and paramedical staff are leading the fight from the front, the foot soldiers of their army, ambulance workers, are bringing the battle, the contagion, to the battleground

Delhi reported the highest single-day spike with 3,137 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the national capital's tally beyond 50,000 mark to 53,116

Life has come to a standstill in Ladakh after the coronavirus pandemic broke out. Coupled with it, now a standoff between the Indian Army and the Chinese PLA at the LAC has all but sounded a death knell for tourism in the Himalayan valley ahead of a long winter

The Union government on Friday lauded Karnataka's COVID-19 management system, which includes comprehensive contact tracing of cases and physical and phone-based household surveys, and asked other states to adapt these best practices to their local context and replicate them for better management of the pandemic

India on Friday witnessed its worst rise in Covid cases as it registered 13,586 positive cases in 24 hours. Maharashtra and Delhi contributed almost half of these numbers

India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched the country's first mobile Covid testing lab, which has capability of testing for TB and HIV also

Amid massive spurt in COVID-19 cases in the national capital, people and traders can be seen openly flouting social distancing norms in the market area

Hours after India was elected to the UN Security Council with an overwhelming majority, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was grateful to the support shown by the global community and added that India will work to promote global peace, security, resilience and equity

India on Thursday witnessed yet another single-day highest spike of almost 13,000 COVID-19 cases taking the total tally to 366,000, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data has revealed

Several Indian Army soldiers are "critically injured" and are undergoing treatment, said government sources on Wednesday adding that "casualties could increase" further in what is being seen as one of the deadliest attack carried out by Chinese People's Liberation Army at Line of Actual Control

As the number of coronavirus infected patients across India crossed to 3.54 lakh  (354,000), the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said it has increased the number of COVID-19 testing labs to 924

The employment scenario in India, which was grim, turned grimmer due to the two-month lockdown, and experts say it may take longer to get back to the pre-Covid levels despite some month-on-month improvement

It was on March 17 that Maharashtra notched the first COVID-19 death of a 64-year old man who died at the Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai