The Indian government said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and Serum Institute of India produced Covishield cannot be compared with each other, scientifically, to choose one over another

Bharat Biotech, the Hyderabad based Indian vaccine maker, said it is gearing up to increase manufacturing capacity of Covaxin by 200 million doses per year

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised that the methods and strategies in dealing with COVID-19 should be dynamic as the virus is "expert" in mutation and changing the format

In a bid to reduce pressure on diagnostic facilities that have been stretched to the limit, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) approved the first self-use Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kit, developed by Pune-based MyLab Discovery Solutions, that detects coronavirus infection in 15 minutes

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and an overburdened healthcare system, a newborn baby’s life in a small Indian town was saved because of the timely supply of an oxygen concentrator

With the advent of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 387 tonnes of relief supplies across the globe have been transported through  Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) in India’s commercial capital Mumbai

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Punjab and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia have developed a unique detector named ‘FakeBuster’ to identify imposters attending a virtual conference without anybody’s knowledge

An Indian study has found that only 0.06 per cent of people need hospitalization after Covid vaccination and 97.38 per cent of those vaccinated were protected from the virus, media reports said

India's Health Minister  Harsh Vardhan said a new RT-PCR kit has been developed which can detect various mutant strains of coronavirus with a sensitivity of 97.3 per cent and specificity of 100 per cent

Delhi recorded the highest-ever rainfall in 24 hours in the month of May as Cyclone Tauktae impacted the weather of the National Capital Region

Former India's National Security Guard (NSG) Chief J K Dutt, who was known for his role in leading anti-terror operations during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, has died of COVID-19. He was 72

India's Ministry of Defence has green-lighted the construction of a 4.25 km tunnel under 5,091m high Shinkun LA pass and given the go-ahead to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for building the all-weather axis which will link Manali to Leh, ensuring connectivity for Indian Army formations in Ladakh sector

India’s Daily Recoveries outnumber Daily New Cases for the sixth consecutive day. An estimated 389,851 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reached Gujarat's Bhavnagar and undertook an aerial survey to take stock of the situation as Cyclone Tauktae left a trail of devastation behind it in the western Indian coastal state

Despite a high number of Covid cases across India, less than 2 per cent of the country's population of 1.36 million has been affected so far, the Indian government has said