India

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (AP)

EU and India to restart talks on bilateral free trade deal

May 8, 2021

Two southern states in India have become the latest to declare lockdowns as coronavirus cases surge at breakneck speed across the country (Channi Anand/AP)

India declares more lockdowns as Covid surge hits southern states

May 8, 2021

Surge testing is to be deployed in Bolton (Ben Birchall/PA)

Surge testing deployed in Bolton amid cluster of cases of Indian variant

May 7, 2021

The world’s largest cargo plane has left Belfast flying three 18-tonne oxygen generators and 1,000 ventilators as part of the UK’s response to India’s Covid-19 crisis (Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA)

Three oxygen units flown from NI to India to help Covid-19 battle

May 7, 2021

The body of a COVID-19 victim is wheeled into a converted crematorium in New Delhi (AP)

Modi under pressure to impose lockdown amid Indian virus surge

May 7, 2021

British Airways and its sister company IAG Cargo were covering the costs of the specially chartered flight (British Airways/PA)

BA pilots hail ‘incredible’ medical aid flight to India

May 5, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Ben Stansall/PA)

PM appears at G7 summit after Covid cases detected among Indian delegation

May 5, 2021

British Airways has announced it will fly an aircraft packed with 27 tonnes of medical aid to India (British Airways/PA)

BA flying oxygen cylinders to India

May 5, 2021

A man carries a refilled oxygen cylinder (Ishant Chauhan/AP)

Court orders Indian government to submit oxygen plan within 24 hours

May 5, 2021

England’s Chris Jordan is still in India awaiting his flight home (Mike Egerton/PA)

Sport

Chris Jordan says suspending IPL ‘the right call’ as he awaits return to England

May 5, 2021

Medicines are loaded onto an Air India plane as it prepares to leave Tel Aviv (AP)

Indian government faces calls for fresh lockdown

May 5, 2021