Japan has committed an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan of 30 billion yen (approx Rs 2,113 crore) for a programme loan to support India's efforts at providing social assistance to COVID-19 impacted poor and vulnerable households

Days after getting Drugs Controller General of India's (DCGI) nod for India's first indigenously-made coronavirus vaccine, Bharat Biotech has again knocked on the doors of the drug controller seeking permission to conduct clinical trials of their intranasal vaccine for the viral disease

The Indian government on Friday said that a total of 82 persons have been detected with the new 'more transmissible' UK coronavirus mutant strain

Soldiers of the Indian Army rescued a pregnant woman stuck in snowbound Kupwara in Kashmir and safely took her for about two km in knee-deep snow tol the hospital, the Indian Army said on Thursday

The much-anticipated inoculation programme against COVID-19 in the country is expected to begin by January 12, government sources said

The employment scenario in the country, which improved post the lifting of the lockdown, has worsened in December, according to data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)

With over 1,600 tech start-ups and a record number of 12 additional unicorns added in 2020 -- the highest ever in a single calendar year -- the Indian tech start-up base witnessed a steady growth at a scale of 8-10 per cent (year-on-year), Nasscom said on Thursday

The tide may have begun to turn against China in the pharmaceutical sector as many countries have started reducing dependence on the 'dragon'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condemned the violent chaos that unfolded a day ago at the US Capitol in Washington D.C., saying "orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Japan-aided 306-km Rewari-Madar section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor section and said the modern freight corridor is a "game-changer" for India in the 21st century and it will prove to be a corridor for the rapid development of the country

India requires a total of 66 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to inoculate healthcare and frontline workers and has secured sufficient quantities, a top government official said on Wednesday

The RSS - the ideological parent of the ruling BJP in India -said on Thursday that it would take up a campaign to strengthen social harmony in order to work towards a prosperous and powerful India

As businesses prepare lean and flexible models that operate in an online-offline mix in the post-pandemic world, the focus for digital platforms in India will be on selling directly to the consumers in 2021, a new report said on Thursday

With 20,346 new coronavirus infections and 222 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 1,03,95,278 on Thursday, while the death toll touched 1,50,336, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said

Even as India gears up for the mass-vaccination drive which is slated to begin within few days, about 69 per cent are still hesitant to take the COVID-19 shots, a survey revealed on Wednesday