A city-based 40-year-old business consultant, who was a volunteer for the Covishield vaccine that is under development at the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), has sought Rs 5 crore compensation for the neurological complications he developed after being administered the test dose, said an advocate

For the second time this year, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Narendra Modi government and the saffron party is facing a barrage of criticism from opposition parties and certain sections of people on the formulation of contentious laws

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Bharat Biotech, a city-based pharmaceutical company, is closely working with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to create an indigenous Covid vaccine for India

Hundreds of protesting farmers, both men and women, mainly from the agrarian state of Punjab, gathered along borders of the national capital for a planned protest against the government's new farm laws which they feel are detrimental to their interests

Even though India's economic recovery accelerated in Q2FY21 from the lows of the pandemic-induced lockdown, the country for the very first time since Independence entered ic o a technical recession

The government has informed the Supreme Court that the average cases per day have reduced by 50 per cent since the past eight weeks, and only two states have more than 50,000 cases, contributing almost 33 per cent of the overall active cases

India's 700 kg cartography satellite Cartosat-2F and Russia's 450 kg Kanopus-V satellite had a near-miss in the outer space on Friday morning, said Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation. Both the satellites were as close as 224 metres

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Hetero, one of India's generic pharmaceutical companies, have agreed to produce in India over 100 million doses per year of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in India

There has been a massive surge in cyberattacks against Indian vaccine makers and hospitals in the month of October and December, a new report warned on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced that there are huge renewable energy deployment plans for India for the next decade which are likely to generate business prospects of around $20 billion per year

With 43,082 new cases of Covid infections, India's total caseload reached 93,09,787 on Friday

India and Myanmar on Thursday exchanged 61 nationals including two militants through the Moreh Integrated Check Post (ICP) in southern Manipur, officials said

As pandemic accelerates digital transformation across the spectrum, a Dell Technologies report on Thursday said that 94.7 per cent of Indian organisations have fast-tracked some digital transformation programmes this year and 92.3 percent of those surveyed are re-inventing their business model

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday once again stressed the need to have "One Nation, One Election" in India to save time and money of the country

India on Thursday extended the suspension of scheduled commercial international flight operations to and from India till December 31