Sources: BBC
At least 14 people are killed and 100 others are missing after a cloudburst causes severe flooding in Sikkim, India. 2023-10-4
More than 80 people are injured during riots that occurred during protests over the murder of two Meitei students in Manipur, India. 2023-09-28
Islamist insurgents kill at least two police officers and injured another in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack comes days after the first anniversary of the revocation of Kashmir’s constitutional autonomy. 2020-08-14
The Rajya Sabha of India votes 125 to 105 to pass a controversial amendment to the Indian nationality law that would expedite citizenship for religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. As the bill omits Muslims, critics say it's discriminatory and violates the secular nature of the Constitution. Massive protests break out in the state of Assam in response. 2019-12-11
Four elephants are killed after being hit by a freight train near a Bagadihi Forest Range area in Jharsuguda district in the Indian state of Odisha. 2018-04-16
A court in India sentences Mirza Himayat Baig to death for plotting the 2010 Pune bombing of a bakery which killed 17 people in Pune. 2013-04-19
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
2013 Calcutta market fire: At least 20 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Calcutta, India. 2013-02-27
The 14th Dalai Lama formally submits his resignation as Tibet's political leader to the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile in Dharamsala, India. 2011-03-14