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India issues an emergency use authorization for the single-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-08-7

The Jammu and Kashmir Police arrest 21 people in Kashmir, India, for organizing protests in support of Palestine.
2021-05-15

India reports 89,129 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily total since September 20. The country also reports 714 deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily total since October 21.
2021-04-3

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes 35 kilometres west of Murghob, Tajikistan. The tremors are felt as far away as northern India and Pakistan.
2021-02-12

India surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the third country to reach that milestone behind the United States and Brazil.
2020-10-3

Nayantara Sahgal, is one of the latest authors in India who will return that nation’s highest award from the National Academy of Letters in protest against what Salman Rushdie has characterized as "thuggish violence" creeping into Indian life under the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2015-10-17

A three-story building collapses in the Indian town of Mumbra in Maharashtra state, with at least two deaths and many people reported trapped.
2013-06-21

"The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict", an in-development video game designed to introduce the younger generations to "The Satanic Verses" controversy, is unveiled at a Tehran games expo.
2012-06-26

Ruchir Joshi, Jeet Thayil, Hari Kunzru and Amitava Kumar flee Jaipur on the advice of officials at the Jaipur Literature Festival after reading excerpts from Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", which is banned in India. Rushdie, himself banned from the event, is told that police are searching for the four fugitive writers.
2012-01-23

Julian Assange's mother criticises leading figures in the U.S. government who called for her son's assassination on television, and expresses concerns that her son is being targeted by an American fatwā similar to the one brought against the writer Salman Rushdie in 1989.
2011-02-14