News about India

NEW DELHI (Sept 30): Indian vice president M Venkaiah Naidu tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, reported Xinhua news agency.

NEW DELHI (Sept 24): India's junior railway minister Suresh Angadi died of Covid-19 on Wednesday evening, two weeks after he was tested positive for the coronavirus.

NEW DELHI (Sept 12): India's Covid-19 tally continues to peak on Saturday as 97,570 new cases were detected during the past 24 hours, taking the total to 4,659,984, said the federal health ministry.

PUTRAJAYA (Sept 7): Long-term pass holders from 23 countries which have recorded more than 150,000 COVID-19 cases are barred from entering Malaysia effective today (Sept 7).

NEW DELHI (Aug 27): India's Covid-19 tally crossed 3.

NEW DELHI (Aug 15): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that as many three Covid-19 vaccines are in different stages of trials in the country, and once they are finally produced, India will ramp up infrastructure for mass production of the vaccines.

NEW DELHI (Aug 8): Total Covid-19 tally in India rose to 2,088,611 even as the number of deaths swelled to 42,518, said the latest data issued by the federal health ministry on Saturday.

NEW DELHI (Aug 8): Air India Express confirmed on Saturday morning that 17 were killed in a plane crash-landing in India's southern state of Kerala, including two pilots, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

NEW DELHI (Aug 5): India's health ministry on Wednesday announced that the country has surpassed 1.

NEW DELHI (Aug 1): India recorded the highest ever single-day spike of 57,118 of fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking the total tally to 1,695,988, according to the federal health ministry's latest data.