The consequences of China’s growing capabilities, and the sharpening of tensions on territorial issues across the breadth of Asia, with question marks now on agreements and understandings of yesteryears, are among reasons that stress the importance of establishing a multipolar Asia as a foundation of a multipolar world, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said

A consortium of 28 national laboratories to monitor genomic variations in coronavirus has recommended to the government to consider COVID-19 booster dose for those who are 40 years and older amid the threat of Omicron, a new variant of concern

Indian Navy Chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar said India was maintaining a close vigil on Chinese asset deployments in the Indian Ocean Region, and that during the peak of tensions at the India-China border earlier last year Indian naval assets were kept battle-ready

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind said his country was fully committed to the timely completion of an oil refinery project in Mongolia, a country sandwiched between giant neighbours China and Russia that has been seeking to come out of their bear hugs and reach out to "third neighbours" like India

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India on December 6 for the 21st annual summit between the leaders of the two countries

The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) has confirmed signs of a significant demographic shift in India

With elections in several states like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh - which have powerful farm unions - in the next few months

Four persons, including two Kashmiri businessmen, were killed during an anti-terror operation by security forces in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir

Fully vaccinated travellers from 99 countries, including the US, UK, UAE, Qatar, France and Germany,  have been exempted from mandatory quarantine on arrival in India, according to an updated notification by the Indian government

India is seeking to broaden and intensify its Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meeting Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, during which they discussed ways to forge even closer ties

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the country's defence production has gone up by 334 per cent in the last seven and India was now being recognised as a defence exporting country, a far leap from being the top defence importer in the world a few years back

As many as 96 countries have agreed to mutual recognition of India's COVID-19 vaccination certificates, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, that will ease the way for global travel for more and more Indians

Stressing that this is the century of Asia and Africa, and the Indian Ocean Region is a vital economic space that both these continents share, India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday said that a new cooperative architecture for the common maritime space of the region that ensures security for its inhabitants, driven by current realities and the aspirations to lead better lives, is necessary to grasp the opportunity from the shifting economic currents

India has told the UN climate summit in Glasgow that its solar energy capacity stands at about 45 gigawatts after it increased 17 times in the last seven years, asserting that although the country represents 17 per cent of the global population, its historical cumulative emissions are only 4 per cent

Over 3.3 lakh children in India are malnourished and more than half of them fall in the severely malnourished category with Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat topping the list, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has said in response to an RTI (Right to Information) query