Sources: Reuters
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs advises its citizens to leave Syria and avoid all travel to the country indefinitely. 2024-12-6
A court in India sentences two men to death over a train bombing in 2005 which killed 14 people. 2024-01-3
Millions of people in southeast India face water shortages due to drought and depleted groundwater. 2019-06-19
A court in the Indian city of Mumbai convicts and sentences Ankur Panwar to the death penalty for a fatal acid-throwing attack. 2016-09-8
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
The Indian state of Gujarat seeks the death penalty for ten people involved in the Naroda Patiya massacre in 2002 including former minister Maya Kodnani who had been earlier sentenced to prison sentences. 2013-04-17
India's Supreme Court clears the way for the execution of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, a Sikh militant, rejecting his appeal for his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. 2013-04-12
Afzal Guru is hanged at Tihar Jail in New Delhi, India, for his role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. 2013-02-9
The trial of five men accused in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case begins today, while President of India Pranab Mukherjee approves the death penalty for rapists. 2013-02-5
India executes Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunmen in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He is hanged after his mercy petition is rejected. 2012-11-21