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A roof at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, collapses amid heavy rains killing one person, injuring eight others, and leading to the cancellation of some domestic flights.
2024-06-28

Internet access remained blocked following violent clashes between police and farmers protesting controversial agricultural reforms. Online access was suspended in at least 14 of 22 districts in Haryana near New Delhi. That order was first imposed on Republic Day in Haryana districts for 24 hours, but has been extended every day since.
2021-02-1

Riots erupt in Panchkula and later spread to other parts of the Northern Indian state of Haryana, as well as the state of Punjab and the Indian capital of New Delhi, after a special CBI court found the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh guilty of rape. At least 28 people have been killed and 250 others injured.
2017-08-25

Jat protesters reach an agreement with the Indian government on increased reservations similar to those authorized for economically disadvantaged lower castes. Authorities say at least 19 people have been killed in the three-day demonstrations. Protest leaders call for reopening blockaded roads in the northern state of Haryana. Water restrictions, implemented after protesters damaged the water station's New Delhi feed, remain in effect while engineers repair the equipment.
2016-02-22

An Indian heat wave claims over 200 lives with the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana worst affected.
2015-05-23

At least 10,000 people gather in the Indian capital New Delhi to support a hunger strike by social activist Anna Hazare in support of tougher anti-corruption legislation.
2011-08-20

Indian social activist Anna Hazare is arrested in New Delhi ahead of a proposed fast against corruption.
2011-08-16

Fifty-seventh National Film Awards given away by President Pratibha Patel in New Delhi.
2010-10-22

Indian police investigate potential attacks on shopping centres in New Delhi.
2010-04-22

A bar of radioactive cobalt-60 found in a New Delhi market causes life-threatening radiation sickness in one person and contingency measures from the authorities.
2010-04-13