Sources: Straits Times
At least sixteen people are killed and more than 300,000 others are displaced by floods and landslides in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, India. 2024-07-3
A hospital fire in Bharuch, Gujarat, India, kills at least 16 COVID-19 patients and two nurses. 2021-05-1
Uganda reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant in people who travelled from India to Kampala. 2021-04-29
An Austrian court grants a United States request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash. U.S. officials accuse Firtash of being involved in a scandal where he allegedly paid US$18.5 million in bribes for a permit to mine titanium in India, something Firtash denies. 2017-02-21
Seven Indian sailors are released by pirates after 4 years of captivity. 2014-10-30
2012 Rakhine State riots: Renewed fighting between Buddhist Rakhine and Muslim Rohingya in western Burma kills three people. 2012-08-6
Japan agrees to write off more than US$3.7 billion of debt owed by Burma and to resume development aid. 2012-04-21
A court in Burma denies bail to the chief of the "Myanmar Times" newspaper, charged with violating immigration law. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20110318175126-http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-SEAsia-Story-STIStory_646190.html ("Straits Times")] [http:--www.turkishweekly.net-news-112800-burmese-court-denies-bail-to-australian-publisher.html ("Journal of Turkish Weekly")]date=August 2019 2011-03-17
At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India. 2010-10-30
Burmese military ruler General Than Shwe begins a five-day visit to India. 2010-07-25