Sources: BBC
At least 15 people are killed and 16 others are missing when a cloudburst causes landslides and flooding across Uttarakhand, India. 2025-09-16
More than 100 people have died in the past three days after unseasonably heavy rain floods parts of India and Nepal. 2025-04-11
Indian lawmakers approve capital punishment for men who rape children under the age of 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi signs the measure. 2018-04-21
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is met by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore for a two-hour meeting. Modi's surprise stopover is the first since Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Pakistan in 2004. 2015-12-25
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
The International Olympic Committee suspends India's national Olympic committee because of government interference in its election process. India's athletes will be barred from competing in Olympic events under their national flag, although the IOC could allow them to do so under the Olympic flag. 2012-12-4
Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, orders an inquiry into the death of six people at a stampede at the Bhavnath Hindu temple in the Junagadh district over the weekend. 2012-02-20
An explosion tears through an Israeli diplomat's car in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India; one woman is injured. 2012-02-13
Areas in Delhi, India, are flooded by heavy rain, with record rainfall recorded at Indira Gandhi International Airport. 2011-09-16
India chooses two European fighters for a key $11 billion military contract, ignoring lobbying from United States president Barack Obama, with United States Ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer saying he is "deeply disappointed". Roemer resigns from his post. 2011-04-28