Sources: Straits Times
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 death toll from the landslide in Raigad, Maharashtra, India, increases to 27, with at least 50 people still missing, as monsoon rains complicate rescue efforts. 2023-07-23
The Supreme Court of India strikes down a law criminalizing adultery as unconstitutional, stating it treated women as property of their husbands. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-asia-india-45404927 (BBC) ]2018-09-27
Police in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India, kill nine people who protested against Vedanta Resources' copper smelter operation, alleging that it is a major source of pollution and a risk to fisheries. State Minister D. Jayakumar says that it was "unavoidable" that the people were shot. National Congress opposition leader Rahul Gandhi calls the killings "state sponsored terrorism". 2018-05-22
Amid growing tensions between China and India and Bhutan, China releases a map detailing pieces of land claimed by Bhutan and India as belonging to China. China claims, via the map, that territory up until Gipmochi belongs to China and claims it's supported by the 1890 Convention of Calcutta. 2017-07-1
Fourteen people have died of dengue fever in the Indian city of Delhi. 2015-09-17
At least nine children are killed and another 20 injured after their school bus collides with a truck in the Indian city of Hanumangarh in Rajasthan state. 2013-07-30
Four militants, including two from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), are killed in separate gun battles with security forces in Kupwara and Kulgam districts of Kashmir Valley, India. 2010-11-1
Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe begins a five-day visit to India. 2010-07-25
Indian government ministers meet for the first time as they re-examine the 1984 Bhopal disaster. 2010-06-18