Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Wednesday made a surprise stopover at Doha on his way to Kuwait and met the country's national security advisor

India, which is slowly recovering from the second wave of coronavirus, on Thursday witnessed a big jump in daily COVID-19 toll as it recorded the highest number of deaths due to the contagion in the last 24 hours

In what seems a significant strategic shift amid fast-changing ground reality in Afghanistan, India has apparently initiated direct secret contacts with some of the powerful top Taliban factions and leaders

The 31st edition of India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between the Indian Navy and the Royal Thai Navy is being conducted from 9 – 11 June, India's Ministry of Defence (MOD) said

The Delta variant of COVID-19, the version first detected in India in October last year, can infect people even after they have received both jabs of the Covaxin or Covishield vaccines, new studies done separately by AIIMS (Delhi) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will pay an official visit to Kenya from the 12-14 June

A total 440 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be made available to the country from August this year, including 250 milion doses of Covishield and 190 million doses of crore doses of Covaxin, to achieve universalization of vaccination, India's Health Ministry said Tuesday

A new coronavirus variant has been detected by the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune in two people travelling from Brazil

A body of India's airline pilots has demanded frontline worker status be given to its members, citing 17 pandemic-related deaths in the segment

After two days of weekendcurfew, shops and other business establishments reopened on Monday across Jammu and Kashmir and normal traffic plied on roads

The Jammu & Kashmir government received a fresh consignment of nine Medical Oxygen Generation Plants from Germany

Weyan village in Jammu and Kashmir's  Bandipora district has become the first village of the nation to vaccinate entire populations above 18 years against COVID-19, media reports said

Jammu and Kashmir Rural Livelihoods Mission (JKRLM) Umeed has initiated a first of its kind all-women Dairy Farmers Producer Organization (FPO) at Mitrigam in Pulwama district, local media reports said

The World Bank has forecast that the Indian economy would grow by 8.3 per cent during the current fiscal year, an increase of nearly 3 per cent from its January projection, but lower than the April estimate by almost 2 per cent

It is a piece of misinformation that subsequent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are going to cause severe illness in children. There is no data - either from India or globally - to show that children will be seriously infected in subsequent waves.