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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

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reports two new cases of the Lineage B.1.617 Kappa variant.
2021-07-13

India reports more than 8,800 cases of the deadly "black fungus" in a growing epidemic of the disease. The normally rare infection has a mortality rate of 50% and is believed to occur 12 to 18 days after recovery from COVID-19. Following the increase in the number of cases, India's states and territories are told to declare the disease as an epidemic.
2021-05-23

Complete lockdowns are announced in 30 states and union territories of India in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.
2020-03-24

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath threatens to confiscate property from more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, allegedly to pay for damages caused by protesters. The northern Indian state has seen the most violence from the protests, with 18 out of the 25 killings happening there.
2019-12-26

Further clashes between protesters and police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh leaves six people dead.
2019-12-20

India formally splits Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, dubbed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Both entities will be directly governed from New Delhi.
2019-10-31

In India, about 2.3 million people respond to the state of Uttar Pradesh's announcement of 368 low-level government jobs openings that pay 16,000 rupees ($240) a month. At least 255 of the applicants had a doctorate and over 200,000 had master's degrees.
2015-09-18

In India over 60 million people vote in 64 constituencies today across 7 states for 16th Lok Sabha.
2014-05-7

One hundred and thirty-eight million people are to vote today in India. The fate of big politicians like, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, LK Advani and Arun Jaitley will be decided in today's polling.
2014-04-30