Sources: Reuters
A heatwave in Asia leads to deaths and school closures in India, and record-breaking temperatures in other countries. Luang Prabang, Laos, recorded a temperature of 42.7 C, while Tak, Thailand, recorded a temperature of 44.6 C. 2023-04-19
Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say that the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land in order to make way for a luxury game reserve, have filed an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. 2022-10-5
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind announces that 90% of adults in India have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2022-01-31
Harnaaz Sandhu of India is crowned Miss Universe in Eilat, Israel. 2021-12-13
Nine people are killed and three more are injured in Himachal Pradesh, India, after being hit by falling boulders. 2021-07-25
India reports 46,951 new cases and 212 deaths in the past 24 hours, the highest daily case total since November and also the highest daily death total since January. 2021-03-22
China, India, and four other nations join the Arctic Council with observer status. 2013-05-15
The trial of five men accused in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case begins today, while President of India Pranab Mukherjee approves the death penalty for rapists. 2013-02-5
Somali pirates seize a Panamanian-flagged ship with 15 Indian crewmen on board, off the coast of Tanzania. 2010-09-30