Katyayani Shankar Bajpai, better known as Shankar Bajpai, passed away on 30 August 2020 at the age of 92. He was a career diplomat of the 1952 batch of Indian Foreign Service officers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as the rating star during India's lockdown

In a reprieve for many people seeking to resume travel through public transport, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to allow the resumption of metro operations from September 7 in a graded manner

To ensure more efficiency and speed in the functioning of the Central government, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has consolidated guidelines on premature retirement of India's government employees and clarified that a regular review will be done of government servants in the age group of 50 to 55 years

With a single-day spike of 78,761 fresh cases and 948 deaths, the coronavirus tally in India on Sunday reached 35,42,733 cases, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed

In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, who is closely related to the mastermind of the 2007 Glasgow airport attack, after he was brought to India from Saudi Arabia, officials said on Saturday

Six of India's eight northeastern states' capital cities will come on the Indian Railway map by March 2023, top railway officials said

Severely damaged lungs of a 48-year-old Coronavirus positive male patient were successfully replaced by doctors at a Chennai hospital who carried out a critical bilateral lung transplant, the private hospital said

The coronavirus pandemic in India currently seems to be at its worst, as the country's trajectory of daily cases continued to be the highest-ever recorded globally since the start of the health crisis in December 2019

India has received the highest rainfall in August this year since 1976 -- 25 percent more than the average - after recording 10 percent less downpour than the average in July -  thus setting a new record after 44 years, the IMD said

India on Friday breached its own previous day record of single-day spike of over 75,000 cases, by registering an unprecedented 77,266 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours

A weaker immune response, along with a higher rate of diabetes, obesity and hypertension among men has made them more susceptible to succumbing to the coronavirus than women, with some health experts claiming that women are "endowed by nature" with better immunity

India is on course to have an "approved" vaccine within the first quarter of the calendar year 2021 and Pune based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, is well placed to deliver the first vaccine, according to a report from Bernstein Research, a top Wall Street research and brokerage firm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled address to the captains of the Indian defence industry to assure them that Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-reliant India) is not an inward-looking idea but is for a stable global order

The Union Health Ministry on Thursday made a detailed presentation on the current status of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in which it was observed that out of the total deaths in the country in the last two weeks, 89 per cent of the fatalities were reported from nine states and one Union Territory (UT)