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At least 46 people, including 37 children, who were taking part in Jivitputrika festivities in Bihar, India, drown in rivers and bodies of water swollen by ongoing flooding across India.
2024-09-26

Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl, Mizoram, India.
2024-05-28

India deports 39 Myanmar Army soldiers who abandoned their positions and fled across the border into Mizoram. The soldiers were disarmed by the Assam Rifles before being sent back to Myanmar by helicopter.
2023-11-14

The Chin National Army says that they captured a Tatmadaw base in Rikhawdar, Chin State, and are currently fighting for control of the town which is located on the border with India. More than 5,000 people flee across the border into India's Mizoram state.
2023-11-13

Twenty-six people are killed when a railway bridge being built across a ravine collapses in Mizoram, India.
2023-08-23

India's food ministry reports a 341% surge in tomato prices from 24.68 link=yes (US$0.30) to 108.92 ($1.33) per kilogram, attributed to extreme weather and the tomato mosaic virus affecting major tomato-producing states. Farmers have reported incidents of tomato theft in response to the report.
2023-07-12

In India, a new income tax law comes into effect. It is a significant change on the old 1961 statute, and contains a controversial "angel tax" provision seeking to capture some of the income entering the country from foreign investors funding India's start-ups.
2023-04-1

At least 22 people are killed and over 30 are seriously injured in a rush hour stampede on a footbridge between the Parel and Elphinstone Road railway stations in the Indian city of Mumbai.
2017-09-29

Visas given to potential entrepreneurs who are foreigners will be significantly reduced prompting fears and criticism from Silicon Valley. Many of those given visas are from India.
2017-07-11

India evacuates 5600 people including 960 foreign nationals from Yemen under "Operation Raahat". Several flights were allowed to take off and land in Yemen despite the no-fly zone declared on the country.
2015-04-11