The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Press Information Bureau has decided to financial aid to families of journalists in India who died due to Covid 19

India said it will use its diplomatic channels to bring back fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi directly from Dominica after he was captured there

A special vaccination drive for tourism stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir, including tour operators, shikara wallahs, tourists guides, restaurant and hotel owners has begun in the union territory, officials told IBNS

Stating that the planet will not be the same after COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said vaccines are absolutely important to save lives and defeat the pandemic

A severe cyclonic storm Yaas destroyed tens of thousands of mud houses in eastern India on Wednesday, forcing the closure of the busiest regional airport in Kolkata

Emerging Issues in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine were discussed at the fourth BRICS Working Group meeting attended by more than 60 participants, including researchers, academicians, and government officials, from all five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - on May 25-26

Indian refiners are likely to reduce crude imports in May amid the second wave of coronavirus infection in contrast to April when refiners met all their import commitments but the full impact of the crisis will get reflected only in May numbers, according to S&P Global Platts Analytics

Tata Steel, the Indian steel multinational, has announced that it will continue to pay salaries, including medical and housing benefits, to employees in India who fall victim to COVID-19 for the remaining period of their employment till the age of 60

Jammu and Kashmir has decided to accelerate the vaccination of people under the 18-45 age category in a focused and targeted manner

While the whole country is battling the second wave of Covid-19, a small village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, Bhoyare Khurd, has used the tools of widespread public awareness, following Covid-appropriate behaviour, regular health check-ups and isolation of infected people to control the spread of the virus and eventually become COVID-free

In encouraging signs, the Daily New Cases Covid 19 cases in India have fallen below 200,000 to a level seen 40 days before (Daily new cases were 184,372 on 14th April 2021)

Pharmaceutical major Roche India on Monday announced that it has launched the first batch of antibody cocktail against COVID-19 in the country

India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate is likely to inch up to two per cent in Q4 of the fiscal year 2020-21, investment information and credit rating agency ICRA said

Taking forward the growing partnership in agriculture between Israel and India, the two governments have agreed to enhance their cooperation in agriculture and signed a three-year work program agreement for development in agriculture cooperation, while affirming the ever-growing bilateral partnership and recognizing the centrality of agriculture and water sectors in the bilateral relationship

Two Indian states, Odisha and West Bengal, are on high alert as Cyclone Yaas is set to make landfall on May 26