India on Wednesday reported 37,724 fresh COVID-19 cases in 24 hours with the tally barely 7,000 short of the 12-lakh-mark, as the Union Health Ministry data revealed total coronavirus cases at 11,92,915

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that agriculture is driving the revival of the rural economy in India

With over 90 per cent of land and forest areas in Assam's Kaziranga National Park flooded by rainwater, at least 116 wild animals have been killed so far due to drowning or vehicle-hits even as 143 animals have been rescued, officials said on Tuesday

Alluding to the emerging evidence, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chief Shekhar C. Mande has asserted that airborne transmission of COVID-19 is indeed a "distinct possibility" and advised people to wear masks even in enclosed spaces

After an alarming over 40,000 cases in a day, India on Tuesday heaved a sigh of relief as the spike in fresh cases showed a dip of around 3,000 with Health Ministry data showing 37,148 new cases being reported in past 24 hours

The Serum Institute of India (SII) will soon apply to the Indian regulator for the licensure trials of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid vaccine

The COVID-19-induced economic turbulence has led airline major IndiGo to decide to lay off 10 percent of its workforce

With the highest single-day spike of 40,425 novel coronavirus cases in past 24 hours India's Covid tally reached 11,19,043, according to Health Ministry data on Monday. With 681 fresh deaths the pandemic toll touched 27,497

India's COVID-19 fatality rate has fallen below 2.5 percent for the first time, marking a significant dip and bringing the country in the queue of nations with the lowest fatality rates globally

Controlling the spread of COVID-19 in India may become a greater challenge with the progression of the season towards monsoon, post-monsoon, and thereafter, winter, with a continuous fall in temperature, claims a study conducted jointly by researchers at IIT-Bhubaneswar and AIIMS-Bhubaneswar

Hitting out at External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, former union minister Anand Sharma said that the rhetoric and tweets do not change ground reality and foreign policy must have gravitas and depth

In a major development, AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) Delhi will begin human trials of India's first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, from next week on 100 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 55

Close to 39,000 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours taking India's total coronavirus cases to 10,77,618. With 543 deaths the toll stood at 26,816, Health Ministry data said

Despite economic turbulence due to COVID-19, India's overall food exports since March have increased 27 percent

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech on Friday announced that the Phase-I clinical trials of India's first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin began across the country on July 15