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India asks the United States to release $26m belonging to at least two Indian diamond firms that has been frozen due to alleged trade links with sanctioned Russian diamond mining company Alrosa.
2023-08-30

Taiwan reports its first case of the Omicron BA.2.75 Centaurus variant, in a Taiwanese individual arriving from India.
2022-07-22

India reopens its border to fully vaccinated foreign travellers on regular commercial flights after being closed for 18 months since March 2020 due to a decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases. All travellers must follow COVID-19 protocols and show a negative test result from the previous 72 hours, except those from countries with mutual vaccine recognition.
2021-11-15

Peru reports its first case of the Delta variant, which was originally detected in India in the southern city of Arequipa.
2021-06-9

India reports 332,730 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is a world record for the second consecutive day, thereby bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 16.26 million. The country also reports a record 2,263 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 186,920.
2021-04-23

U.S. space agency NASA admits it posted online a photograph taken from the International Space Station of an Indian mountain Saser Muztagh, claiming it as Mount Everest. With Nepalese netizens left puzzled by this, it took a Nepalese expert to point out the agency's inaccuracy.
2012-12-13

At least one person is killed and another four injured in renewed fighting in the Indian city of Kokrajhar in the state of Assam.
2012-08-28

Indian actor Rajesh Khanna dies at 69 in Mumbai after a prolonged illness.
2012-07-18

A large fire sweeps through Hatibagan market, one of the oldest in the Indian city of Calcutta, destroying most of the buildings.
2012-03-22

India repatriates 39 Pakistani prisoners in a goodwill gesture.
2011-04-11