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India and China agree to resume direct flights suspended since 2020, reopen designated border trade points and boost investment in their economies following talks in New Delhi between Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and Indian officials, including Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
2025-08-20

The death toll from the floods in Sikkim, India, increases to 74.
2023-10-9

A court in Pakistan sentences Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to five years in prison on terrorism financing charges. Lakhvi, a senior member of the group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, though he was convicted of unrelated charges. India and the United States welcome the verdict but ask that he be tried for the attacks.
2021-01-8

The government will temporarily suspend all flights from India to the United Kingdom due to the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. The suspension will begin tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. IST and will last until December 31.
2020-12-21

In an election occurring in the midst of massive protests against the central government, the incumbent right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party is projected to lose its majority to the United Progressive Alliance parties in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
2019-12-23

Authorities in India confirm that 774 people have been killed so far during monsoon rains.
2018-08-13

At least 11 children are killed after a school bus collides with a truck in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
2013-03-4

Voters in the Indian state of Gujarat go to the polls for a state election.
2012-12-17

Flash floods in India's Uttarakhand state kill 12 people with up to 40 missing.
2012-08-5

An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2012-04-30