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Thousands of doctors and university students participate in walkouts and protests against sexual violence in cities across India after the alleged rape and murder of a female medical trainee in Kolkata last week.
2024-08-13

The Chess Olympiad in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, concludes, with Uzbek chess grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov winning the open event.
2022-08-9

Tropical Cyclone Vardah is expected to make landfall in southern India today bringing heavy rain to the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu as well as Andhra Pradesh. At least four people have been killed and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from low lying areas.
2016-12-12

Days of heavy rain in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu causes floods with many areas in the city of Chennai under water. The death toll from rain-related incidents has reached 188.
2015-12-2

Floods in Sri Lanka and the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu cause over 70 deaths with the city of Chennai worst affected.
2015-11-16

An 11-story building under construction collapses in the Indian city of Chennai, crushing to death 61 people, most of them workers on site.
2014-07-4

A judicial inquiry is ordered into a stampede during Navrati festivities near a temple in India's Madhya Pradesh state that resulted in 109 deaths and 120 people being injured.
2013-10-14

Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna condemns a court case in Russia that could see the "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" holy book banned there.
2011-12-20

The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in the Indian capital New Delhi rises to 66 with the search for victims continuing.
2010-11-16

Two trains collide in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India with at least 50 people feared dead.
2010-07-19