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Cyclone Biparjoy approaches India and Pakistan, with seven people being killed in India.
2023-06-13

Three people are killed and 17 are missing after an overloaded boat capsizes in Uttar Pradesh, India.
2022-08-12

India reports a record 126,789 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 12,928,574.
2021-04-8

India reports its single largest increase in a day, recording 95,735 new infections. The Health Ministry also reported 1,172 deaths in the past 24 hours. The ministry says the increase is due to a surge in testing as experts warn that the virus is spreading to towns and villages.
2020-09-10

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the global transfer of weapons between 2012 and 2016 has been higher than any other five-year period since the end of the Cold War, with the Middle East increasing its weapon imports by 212%, second only to India, who accounted for 13% of the world's imports.
2017-02-20

A heatwave in India has claimed 300 lives in April with daytime cooking banned in some parts of the country to prevent fires which have claimed an additional 80 lives.
2016-04-30

Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat whose arrest sparked an international incident involving India and the United States, is indicted for allegedly lying to obtain a work visa for her housekeeper, and is asked to leave the United States under the rules of diplomatic immunity.
2014-01-10

Pakistan successfully tests the Shaheen-1A nuclear-capable ballistic missile, which is able to reach targets in India.
2012-04-25

Indian social activist Anna Hazare begins a second hunger strike against corruption.
2011-06-8

The Magistrate court in Bhopal, India convicts eight people, one posthumously, for their role in the Bhopal disaster industrial castastrophe 25 years ago in 1984.
2010-06-7