India’s capital New Delhi will start relaxing its strict coronavirus lockdown next week if new cases continue to drop in the city, its chief minister said on Sunday.

India today began evacuating thousands of people from low-lying coastal areas of four states along the Bay of Bengal and kept warships on standby as cyclone "Yaas" headed towards landfall on May 26 evening.

Indian navy ships and helicopters searched in extreme weather and rough seas Wednesday for 78 people still missing from a barge that sank off Mumbai as a deadly cyclone blew ashore this week.

The Calcutta High Court last night stayed the bail granted by a trial court to two senior West Bengal Ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, ruling TMC legislator Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chattopadhyay who were arrested yesterday morning by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a five-year-old case related to alleged graft.

Two senior West Bengal ministers of Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet and a key leader of ruling Trinamool Congress, who were arrested earlier today in a five-year-old case relating to a sting operation on bribery, were granted bail by a special court in Kolkata.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has thanked Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen for his recent congratulatory message to her.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee after she was sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the third straight term.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee this evening and assured that the Centre will continue to extend all possible support to the West Bengal Government to fulfil people's aspirations and also to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.

The first consignment of 423 oxygen cylinders as emergency Covid-19 aid from the United States reached New Delhi today as the inflow of foreign assistance gathered momentum to help India cope with the unprecedented second wave of coronavirus.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today cast her vote at a polling booth in south Kolkata's Bhabanipur assembly constituency.

The death toll at a Covid-19 hospital in India following oxygen cylinder leak has climbed to 24 with two more patients dying, said District Collector Suraj Mandhare.

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has tested positive for coronavirus and was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.

India’s Election Commission today banned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning in the state assembly election for 24 hours for violating the model code of conduct.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for seeking en bloc votes of Muslims for Trinamool Congress and said that had his party made a similar appeal to Hindus, it would have been censored by the Election Commission.

The Indian government today appealed to farmers to hold further talks to break a nearly month-long deadlock over their demand for the repeal of agricultural reform laws, but farmers’ leaders declined to relent unless these laws are withdrawn.

The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police has arrested a suspected operative of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from West Bengal's Birbhum district, a senior officer of the force said today.

India will emerge victorious in the fight against the pandemic if the virus is defeated in the 10 states which account for over 80 percent of active Covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

India today decided to waive charge of inland waterway usage with immediate effect in a bid to promote it as a means of cheaper and eco-friendly mode of transport.

One person has been arrested in connection with the death of a pregnant wild elephant in the southern state of Kerala, the state forest department said today.

Two Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim on charges of illegally staying there for months, the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) said today.