The news of a 15-year-old girl Jyoti Kumari taking her injured father to home in Bihar's Darbhanga -- 1,200 km from Gurugram, on a bicycle during the lockdown, has impressed US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump

Evacuation planes from Male in THE Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed here with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and extended lockdown, an official said on Friday

India's Health Ministry on Friday said the COVID-19 fatality rate has dropped from 3.13 percent to 3.02 percent, and the authorities involved in tackling the viral infection are concentrating on containment measures and clinical management of cases

Soon after taking charge as chairman of the WHO's 34-member Executive Board on Friday, India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said, "I am aware I am entering this office at a time of global crisis on account of this pandemic."

Hot and dry weather prevailed in the national capital on Friday, with the temperature mounting to 45 degrees Celsius in some parts of the city

Giving a major relief to Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders stranded abroad, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday relaxed the visa and travel restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 lockdown for certain categories

India'S Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday that the period of lockdown has been gainfully utilised to ramp up the health infrastructure in the country

There are at least 64 percent deaths in males and only 36 percent in females, revealed an analysis of COVID deaths in India, a Health Ministry document said on Thursday

The Indian government Thursday said that limited passenger flight operations of about one-third of capacity would be permitted to operate from May 25

Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport recommenced operations from Thursday afternoon after it was inundated by heavy rains due to Cyclone 'Amphan'

With,5609 new novel coronavirus cases and 132 new fatalities in the last 24 hours, the total tally of such infections in India stood at 1,12,359 on Thursday the Health Ministry data revealed

India reached a landmark in its fight against COVID-19 by performing 100,000 tests in one day

Only 6.39 percent COVID-19 cases need hospitalisation, which includes oxygen, ventilator or ICU support, according to the Union Health Ministry, here on Wednesday

Not happy with the boiled egg given as part of diet, four COVID-19 patients at the Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and Hospital, Salem, placed an online order for tandoori chicken and biryani on Tuesday.  Salem is about 350 km from Chennai

After nearly two months of suspension, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Wednesday that domestic civil aviation operations will resume from May 25