Nearly 90 per cent of India is witnessing a high Covid positivity rate, the government said on Tuesday adding that 640 districts out of the 734 are above the national threshold level of 5 per cent positivity rate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not travel to the UK to attend the G-7 summit in June, the government informed

After 44 Aligharh Muslim University staff, 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff died of Covid-19, the varsity's vice-chancellor has written to the  Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) asking for genome sequencing of what he suspects a "lethal" variant of the novel coronavirus

Top US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that India's experience has taught the United States not to underestimate the potency of a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were on Tuesday killed in a shootout which ensued after Indian security forces launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Anantnag

A  third consignment of life-saving medical equipment from Israel, including over 1300 oxygen concentrators and 400 respirators, was airlifted to India and arrived in New Delhi Monday night

Bloated, decomposed bodies washed up on the banks of river Ganga at Bihar’s Buxar, media reports said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a workshop on "Covid-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward” with health leaders, experts and officials of  nine neighboring countries, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka along with Indian officials and experts, on Thursday, IBNS reported

As hundreds of home quarantine patients require electricity to keep the oxygen concentrators running, the Kashmir Power Development Corporation (KPDC) has stepped up supply to ensure uninterrupted power at this time of crisis, IBNS reported

At least 21 people died at a village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district allegedly after a COVID-19-infected corpse was buried without following protocol, local media reports said

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the emergency use of an anti-COVID-19 therapeutic oral drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), developed indigenously by India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), as an adjunct therapy in moderation to severe COVID-19 patients

The Lancet, the reputed international medical journal,  in an editorial on Saturday heavily criticised the Narendra Modi government for the "the scenes of suffering in India" due to the coronavirus pandemic

India and the EU on Saturday launched a sustainable and comprehensive Connectivity Partnership, aiming at furthering cooperation on trade and investment, transport, energy, digital and people-to-people contacts

Building upon lessons learned from the early phases of COVID-19, India and the US will work closely in the international arena, including strengthening of the World Health Organization

In a sharp rebuke to the Modi government, the Supreme Court of India on Saturday constituted a twelve-member National Task Force (NTF) to streamline the scientific allocation of Liquid Medical Oxygen across the country to deal with the critical shortage of life-saving gas amid a virulent second wave of COVID-19 pandemic