English • 中文

“ Truth Lies Beyond Mainstream ”

Offstream
news

2015-07-30

India

India executes Yakub Memon for his role in the 1993 Bombay bombings.

Sources: BBC

Related

At least 25 people are killed when a wedding bus crashes and catches fire in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India.
2023-07-1

Freedom House, in its annual "Freedom in the World" report, downgrades India from "free" to "partially free". The report cites the rise in mob violence against Muslims, increased government interference in the judiciary, increased intimidation against journalists and activists, and the government's heavy-handed approach to COVID-19 lockdowns that left millions of migrants stranded as the main reasons for the downgrade.
2021-03-3

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the world's largest vaccination programme against COVID-19 in India, which plans to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people. A sanitation worker is the first person to receive the vaccine.
2021-01-16

Eighteen people are dead and dozens of others are injured, including fifteen seriously, after an Air India Express plane carrying 191 people overruns the runway in Calicut International Airport, Kerala, India.
2020-08-7

Prime Minister Imran Khan says "There is no doubt that India is behind the attack" on the Pakistan Stock Exchange yesterday. India rebuffs the accusation and says it had nothing to do with the assault.
2020-06-30

A bomb explodes outside the Arun III Hydroelectric Power Plant in Tumlingtar, Nepal. No group claimed credit for the attack. The plant was codeveloped with India and is due to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within weeks.
2018-04-29

Bears attack villages in Orissa, India, killing eight people and injuring a dozen more. The bears are said to have become aggressive due to excessive consumption of the mahua flower.
2013-05-7

India's Supreme Court sentences actor and politician Sanjay Dutt to 5 years in prison over illegal arms possession, related to the 1993 Mumbai bombings. The death sentence of Yakub Memon, convicted mastermind of the bombings, has been upheld.
2013-03-21

At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
2011-11-8

India's Home Secretary G. K. Pillai states Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) co-ordinated the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
2010-07-14

© Offstream. Made in Cyberspace.

Distributed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and available in many open API formats: Markdown, HTML, JSON and XML. Push nofitications via Twitter.

Original news text authored by contributors of Wikipedia® Current Events Portal is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 ; additional terms may apply. Open graph meta tags contents: titles, descriptions and images delivered by the news sources are explicitly public and their display constitutes fair use, however each item may contain registered trademarks of third parties and/or specific limitations on reuse; additional terms may apply. Names of the news sources are registered trademarks of respective media organisations.

By using this site, you agree to the Wikimedia Terms of Use and Offstream Privacy Policy & Terms of Use. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organisation. Offstream is not affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.