Dr. Satyendra Kumar Tiwary thinks of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as superhuman. A leader like Modi comes along "once in 2,500 years," he said, and should be remembered among the greats in India's history, like Mahatma Gandhi, and even the (...)
India saw new COVID-19 cases dipping further with 80,834 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. The daily positivity rate is at 4.25% and has been less than 10% for 20 consecutive days.
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Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Nasser Al-Sabah on Thursday hailed the "depth" of his country's ties with India, saying bilateral relations remain on an upward trajectory.
Against the backdrop of the 60th anniversary of the establishment (...)
The Indian government has ordered the temporary closure of all tiger reserves to tourism after a spate of COVID-19 outbreaks in zoos around the country.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority, an agency under the government's environmental (...)
India reported on Tuesday a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 86,498 cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest in 66 days, while death rose by 2,123.
The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 29 million, while the death (...)
India's COVID-19 caseload climbed by 86,498 over the past day, reaching a total of 28,996,473, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry reported on its website on Tuesday, according to TASS News Agency.
The total COVID-19 death toll rose by 2,123 over (...)
India reported on Monday a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 100,636 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,427, according to Reuters.
The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 28.9 million, while the death (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the federal government would provide coronavirus vaccines free of charge to all adults, taking over the task of vaccination from state governments.
In a televised address to the nation, (...)
With COVID-19 infections coming down to the lowest level country-wide in nearly two months to 120,529 new cases during the last 24 hours, India's major cities Sunday announced significant relaxations in lockdowns in New Delhi and Mumbai.
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India reported on Saturday 121,476 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,382.
The tally of infections stood at al 28,693,835 and the death toll at 344,101, data from the federal health ministry showed, according (...)
India reported 173,790 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the lowest daily spike in 45 days, as infections from a
second wave continued to decline across the country.
According to dpa, the daily death toll remains high with 3,617 fatalities reported (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be increasing its aid to India by shipping another shipload of liquid oxygen, as the Asian country battles a second wave of COVID-19.
This new aid follows last month's shipment of 80 tons of liquid oxygen to India (...)
India's Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday extended the countrywide restrictions to contain COVID-19 until June 30.
The new measures were ordered on April 29 following the deadly outbreak of the second wave of the pandemic.
"In spite of declining (...)
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday extended the ban on scheduled international flights into and out of India till midnight on June 30.
The current suspension of regular international passenger flights was to have expired (...)
WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to "mass surveillance" by forcing social media platforms to hand over private information about their users.
The company confirmed on Wednesday that such a (...)
Indian security forces in the newly created union territory of Jammu and Kashmir are at the forefront in the battle against COVID-19 besides fighting militancy. The union territory has recorded an average of 3,558 new cases for the last seven days (...)
WhatsApp has sued the Indian government challenging the second largest Internet market's new regulations that could allow authorities to make people's private messages "traceable," and conduct mass surveillance.
The Facebook-owned instant messaging (...)
India reported 196,427 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the lowest single-day rise in cases since April 14, according to a CNN tally of figures from the Indian Ministry of Health.
This marks a decline from the first week of May when the country was (...)
Two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a fellow Indian wrestler, according to Delhi police.
Both Kumar, 37, and a second man detained over the same offense later appeared in court, a Delhi (...)
Twitter's decision to label a tweet from a leading member of India's governing party as "manipulated media" could make things even harder for the company in a key market.
Police visited Twitter's (TWTR) offices in the capital Delhi and the nearby (...)
India crossed another grim milestone Monday of more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections that exploded with fury has shown signs of easing.
The milestone, as recorded by India's Health Ministry, comes (...)
The Delhi state government on Sunday extended the lockdown till May 31 in the wake of the ongoing second wave of COVID-19.
Announcing the extension of the lockdown, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the extension was required so that (...)
India reported that the death toll of COVID-19 exceeded 300,000, making the country the third in the world, after the United States and Brazil, in term of death toll from the pandemic.
The Indian Ministry of Health stated that the number of cases in (...)
India on Saturday reported 257,299 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,194. Total infections in the country stood at 26.3 million while the country's total death toll was at 295,525, according to data from the (...)
India reported 259,551 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the country's total caseload past 26 million. The country has recorded roughly 1 million cases since Monday.
Friday's tally brings India's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases to (...)
