Sources: Bloomberg
Swiss voters reject two ballot measures to conscript women into a national service program and to establish an inheritance tax on high earners. 2025-11-30
A Swiss tourist is killed and another person is critically injured in a bull shark attack off the coast of Crowdy Bay National Park, New South Wales, Australia. 2025-11-26
A bus carrying Indian Umrah pilgrims collides with a tank truck near Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 45 people. 2025-11-17
Swiss voters approve a ban on full-facial coverings in public, known popularly as a so-called "burqa ban", and a free trade agreement with Indonesia, while rejecting a government proposal to introduce nationwide electronic IDs, which would be required to open a bank account or request official documents. 2021-03-7
Switzerland says it has been informed that a female Swiss hostage has been killed in Mali by jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The exact circumstances of the killing are still unclear, according to Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis. 2020-10-9
Eighteen Indian sailors are abducted near the Nigerian coast. 2019-12-4
An Indian juvenile court is due to deliver its verdict on a seventeen-year-old boy accused of participating in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in the New Delhi suburb of Munirka. 2013-07-11
Convicted Indian spy Sarabjit Singh dies after being attacked by fellow inmates in a Pakistani prison. He is flown home to India where the government of Punjab has declared him a martyr. 2013-05-2
Indian sitar virtuoso and classical composer Ravi Shankar dies in the U.S. city of San Diego at the age of 92. 2012-12-11
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is sworn in as a member of Parliament's upper house the Rajya Sabha. 2012-06-4