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Thirteen students are killed at the National University of Kharkiv after a Russian shell struck a dormitory at the university's Academy of Culture. Five foreign students are among the dead, including four Chinese and one Indian student.
2022-03-3

Indian drug regulator approves the emergency use of the Bharat Biotech Covaxin vaccine for children aged between 2 to 18.
2021-10-12

India releases information on a second, deadlier form of "white fungus" infection that has begun spreading among patients initially placed at risk because of COVID-19. The newly identified white fungus is known as candidiasis. Steroid treatment can cause white fungal infection in COVID patients while unsterile use of oxygen cylinders can also be a cause. White fungus infection is more dangerous because it rapidly affects vital organs and genitals along with the mouth, stomach and skin. The antifungal drugs fluconazole, itraconazole, caspofungin, and micafungin are being prescribed to treat patients.
2021-05-22

Nepal grants emergency use authorization for the Indian Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the third country to do so.
2021-03-19

An explosion followed by a fire at a chemical factory in Dhule, India kills at least 12 and injures at least 58.
2019-08-31

At least 44 people are killed when a bus carrying at least 60 plunges into a gorge in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous northern Indian state.
2019-06-20

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Myanmar for a state visit.
2017-09-5

A train derails near Khatauli, Uttar Pradesh, India, resulting in at least 23 deaths and 156 injuries.
2017-08-19

At least 15 people are killed in a wedding bus crash in Andhra Pradesh state in southern India.
2015-10-17

India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire and mortar bombs along their disputed frontier, killing five civilians and injuring more than a dozen.
2015-07-16