A staggering 1700 people have lost their lives to lightning strikes in India this year! In Bihar, more than 400 people have lost their lives from lightning strikes during the year,  recording a 168 per cent increase over the previous year

Vaccines targeting Covid-19 are able to curb deaths and hospitalization in patients substantially, including those infected by the highly-transmissible delta variant that drove India's devastating second wave and is now triggering curbs across nations

India has an overall People with Disability (PwD) talent of 30 million, around 50 per cent of which is employable, but, currently, only 25 per cent (around 3.4 million) is employed across sectors, according to a new report by UnearthInsight, a metrics benchmarking and market intelligence firm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the work of a retired Indian Army officer who, along with her father, supported and fed stray animals during the coronavirus pandemic, and said such an initiative was a source of inspiration to society

At least 20 people have died after they got trapped under the rubble of their homes in Mumbai's Chembur and Vikhroli areas following heavy rains that lashed the city and its suburbs for several hours late Saturday night and early this morning

The Indian Navy has received two MH-60R multi-role helicopters from the US in a boost to its combat capabilities

Democracy means the protection of minorities and a civilization is judged only by how it treats its minorities, a state high court in India ruled on Friday in a significant pronouncement

The next 100-125 days are critical in the fight against COVID-19, the Indian government said on Friday

Stopping a third wave of COVID-19 cases is a "priority", Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the chief ministers of six states during a virtual interaction on Friday, and called on them to step up efforts to follow the centre's 'test, track, treat and teeka (vaccinate)' system to contain the virus and also ramp up their health infrastructure

Covid vaccines currently in use in India reduce the chance of hospitalisation or mortality in case of breakthrough infections (or infections that occur after at least one dose of the vaccine), according to the results of an ICMR-funded study

India's Supreme Court Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to reconsider its decision to hold Kanwar Yatra - an annual fortnight-long religious pilgrimage involving cross-country treks by Hindu youth slinging sacred pitchers of holy Ganga water -  which has already been called off by its neighbouring state Uttarakhand for the same reason

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday described his country’s friendship with Japan as one of the most trusted in the world, “both strategically and economically”

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said the world is against seizing power by violence in the foreign ministers' meeting of SCO countries in Dushanbe, in a veiled reference to the Taliban’s attempt at military takeover in Afghanistan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be inaugurating a new convention centre in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Thursday

Recent images from hill stations and city markets - of large crowds without face masks and zero social distancing - are a "cause for concern", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday, as he underlined the need to follow Covid protocols to ward off a potential third wave of infections that doctors have warned about