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France begins implementing a seven-day quarantine and pre-departure testing for EU nationals, French residents, and anyone travelling to the United Kingdom for essential reasons in order to prevent the spread of the Lineage B.1.617 variant that originated in India as all non-essential travel to the UK is currently banned.
2021-05-31

At least 26 people are dead and 53 more are missing after an ONGC barge P305 sailing off the coast of Mumbai, India sank during severe weather.
2021-05-18

California reports the United States' first case of the "double mutant" variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in India. The variant has been detected in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2021-04-4

Tablighi Jamaat leader Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi is charged with manslaughter after a gathering the organization held in Delhi on March 3 was linked to 1,023 coronavirus cases across 17 Indian states. Police say he ignored two notices to end the religious event at a mosque in Delhi, though he denies any wrongdoing.
2020-04-16

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

The Indian state government of Tamil Nadu lifts its ban on the sport of Jallikattu, following five days of protests by demonstrators against the ban.
2017-01-22

Pakistani officials say nine civilians have been killed after cross-border Indian shelling hit their passenger bus in Neelam Valley, northeast of Muzaffarabad, while three Pakistani soldiers were killed in other cross-border firing incidents.
2016-11-23

India's Supreme Court rejects a plea by Novartis to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, Glivec (Imatinib), amid concerns that a patent could threaten access to cheap generic versions of drugs in poorer countries.
2013-04-1

At a university seminar in New Delhi, India's home secretary G. K. Pillai announces unexpected plans to reduce security forces in Kashmir by 25 percent so that "people don't get harassed by the over-presence of security forces".
2011-01-14

Police in India kill Umakanta Mahato, a top Maoist guerilla wanted in connection with the Gyaneshwari Express train derailment in May.
2010-08-27