Sources: BBC
The death toll from the tainted liquor incident in Kallakurichi district, Tamil Nadu, India, increases to 54. 2024-06-22
India reports 332,730 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is a world record for the second consecutive day, thereby bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 16.26 million. The country also reports a record 2,263 deaths in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 186,920. 2021-04-23
Two policemen are killed by unidentified gunmen at close range in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. 2021-02-19
A court in Pakistan sentences Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi to five years in prison on terrorism financing charges. Lakhvi, a senior member of the group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is accused of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, though he was convicted of unrelated charges. India and the United States welcome the verdict but ask that he be tried for the attacks. 2021-01-8
An explosion followed by a fire at a chemical factory in Dhule, India kills at least 12 and injures at least 58. 2019-08-31
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
Nearly half a million people gather in the Indian town of Puttaparthi for the funeral of religious leader Sathya Sai Baba. 2011-04-27
At a university seminar in New Delhi, India's home secretary G. K. Pillai announces unexpected plans to reduce security forces in Kashmir by 25 percent so that "people don't get harassed by the over-presence of security forces". 2011-01-14
At least 42 people die after a building collapses in eastern New Delhi, India with at least twenty people trapped in the rubble. 2010-11-15
Suspected Maoists kill 35 people in a land mine attack against a bus in central India on a road roughly 280 miles (450 km) south of the state capital of Raipur. 2010-05-18