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The government will temporarily suspend all flights from India to the United Kingdom due to the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. The suspension will begin tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. IST and will last until December 31.
2020-12-21

Malaysian agriculture giant FGV Holdings Berhad announces it will increase its sugar imports from India from 88,000 tonnes to 133,000 in an attempt to resolve the palm oil trade dispute between the two nations.
2020-01-23

Irom Chanu Sharmila is set to end her 16-year fast against India's Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.
2016-08-9

Temperatures soar to a record 51 C in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The heatwave has claimed 300 lives since April 2016.
2016-05-20

A heatwave in India has claimed 300 lives in April with daytime cooking banned in some parts of the country to prevent fires which have claimed an additional 80 lives.
2016-04-30

More than 100 are feared dead in an early summer heatwave in India which has forced the closure of schools.
2016-04-21

150 million workers go on strike in India to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi's labour market reforms.
2015-09-2

Ninety-four people die, and 45 others are hospitalized, after drinking moonshine in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
2015-06-21

Police in India break up a demonstration of pro-Tibet protestors outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi.
2011-03-9

At least 10 anti-government protesters are killed by early morning bombs in Mogadishu; the dead include people from Afghanistan, Algeria, India and Pakistan.
2010-08-21