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Indian multinational company Tata Steel announces the closure of both its blast furnaces in Port Talbot, Wales, with the loss of around 3,000 jobs across the United Kingdom, in what trade unions are calling a "worst-case scenario" for workers.
2024-01-18

After heavy rainfall in Delhi, India, the Yamuna reaches record-high water levels, resulting in flood warnings and evacuations.
2023-07-13

South Africa agrees to send twelve cheetahs to India each year for the next eight to ten years to help secure a viable wild population. The Asiatic cheetah went extinct in India in the 1940s due to overhunting and habitat destruction.
2023-01-27

Afghan truck drivers, faced with roads that have not been repaired by the Ministry of Public Works, launch a campaign to repair them by themselves by collecting 500 Afs from their trade union members to pay for it. Current efforts are focused on the Kabul–Kandahar Highway and the Salang Pass.
2021-05-24

At least 15 people are dead and 20 others injured after a bus falls into a gorge in the Udhampur district in India's Jammu and Kashmir state.
2015-05-11

A man goes on a rampage with an axe, killing nine people in Chhattisgarh state in central India.
2013-04-4

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes western Nepal near the Indian border, and is felt in Delhi.
2011-04-4

Trade unions in India declare a bandh or general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices. India is crippled.
2010-09-7

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles fatally shoot Indian civil rights campaigner and environmentalist Amit Jethwa in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
2010-07-21

As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including India, China and Vietnam, attend open-air Mass at Fátima, Portugal, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope criticises abortion and same-sex marriage in a speech.
2010-05-13