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Mexico surpasses India to have the third-highest death toll in the world. 2021-01-28
Ten newborn babies die in a hospital fire in western Maharashtra, India. The fire was supposedly caused by an electrical short circuit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the news was "heart-wrenching". 2021-01-9
As anger over the new citizenship law grows in the Indian states of Assam and Tripura, the government calls in the Army to restore peace. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals for calm. 2019-12-12
A court in India sentences dozens of people to prison, some of them for life, for their roles in riots that killed 69 Muslims in the city of Ahmedabad in 2002. 2016-06-17
In India, about 2.3 million people respond to the state of Uttar Pradesh's announcement of 368 low-level government jobs openings that pay 16,000 rupees ($240) a month. At least 255 of the applicants had a doctorate and over 200,000 had master's degrees. 2015-09-18
India executes Yakub Memon for his role in the 1993 Bombay bombings. 2015-07-30
Forty people are missing and presumed drowned after a bus plunges into a canal near Sirhind-Fategarh, Punjab, India. 2013-07-31
A Tibetan activist sets himself on fire at a demonstration in India's capital New Delhi ahead of a visit by the President of China Hu Jintao later in the week. 2012-03-26
The diving support vessel DSV Koosha 1 capsizes off the coast of Iran, resulting in the deaths of six commercial divers from India who are trapped in the vessel's diving chamber when the boat sinks. 2011-10-20
A hundred people are injured as the Kalka Mail is derailed near the town of Fathepur Malwa in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 2011-07-10