The state government in West Bengal today announced imposition of a complete lockdown in the entire state twice a week, beginning Thursday, in a bid to break the chain of the Covid-19 contagion.

International relations analysts have called for a move to strengthen South Asian integration for the sake of improving the lives of its huge population, and ensure human rights and protection of the environment.

Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on June 15 announced two new imported cases of coronavirus from Bangladesh.

An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed during a “violent face-off” with the Chinese military in the Himalayan heights of eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last night, the Indian armed force said today.

India today reacted sharply to a bill passed in Nepal’s parliament redrawing the Himalayan nation’s map which reportedly includes parts of the Indian territory.

India’s private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh has said.

India is “very far away from the peak” as far as the spread of Covid-19 infection is concerned and preventive measures taken to check the spread have been very effective, the government said today.

Indian security forces have averted a major car bomb attack by detecting and defusing a vehicle fitted with improvised explosive devices (IED) in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

India overtakes Iran to become one of the 10 worst-hit nations as it recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus positive cases for the fourth consecutive day with 6,977 new patients across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to nearly 1.38 lakh cases.

Thirty municipal areas spread over 12 states are accounting for almost 80 percent of India’s Covid-19 cases, according to the health ministry.

India has conveyed its strong protest to Pakistan’s efforts to bring “material change” in Pakistan-occupied territories and asked Islamabad to vacate them.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks on the phone to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and discusses the regional situation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.

India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

International rating agency Fitch has cut India's economic growth projections to 0.8 percent in the current 2020-21 financial year, saying an unparalleled global recession was underway due to disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns.

Even as the number of coronavirus cases in India surged past the 15,000-mark and death toll past 500, the government says several steps for prevention, containment and management of the contagion are yielding good results in 23 states and federally-ruled territories across four districts.

Bangladesh's coast guard says it rescued at least 382 "starving" Rohingya refugees floating in a large boat in the country's territorial waters after nearly two months at sea.

India appears set to extend the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown by two more weeks in a bid to contain the spread of novel coronavirus that has so far claimed 239 lives and affected nearly 7,447 people in the country.

A little over 82 percent of Covid-19 patients in India are below the age of 60 years, according to health ministry data.

Indian immigration at Petrapole checkpost refuses entry to seventy Indian nationals returning from Bangladesh’s Dhaka through the Benapole checkpost.