Curfew follows riots over new king of NepalNight curfew was imposed yesterday in Nepal's capital Kathmandu and police were issued shoot-on-sight orders after rioting broke…Tue Jun 05 2001 - 01:00
Tibet's Karmapa (15) lives a restricted life, despite escape from Chinese captorsThe 17th Karmapa, one of Tibet's holiest monks, remains confined to the top floor of a monastery in northern India, looking wistfully…Mon May 21 2001 - 01:00
Gujarat forces houses to turn veganThe Hindu nationalist government in the western Indian Gujarat state has imposed a ban on the cooking and consumption of non-…Wed Apr 25 2001 - 01:00
Tension eases in bitter border disputeMilitary tension between India and Bangladesh eased yesterday, with the neighbouring states agreeing to revert to the positions…Fri Apr 20 2001 - 01:00
India's defence minister resigns in scandalThe political vice tightened around India's Hindu nationalist-led coalition government with its defence minister resigning yesterday…Fri Mar 16 2001 - 00:00
Moscow ready to give India four reactors and provide nuclear fuelIn defiance of international objections, particularly from Washington, Russia has offered to help India construct four more nuclear…Wed Feb 21 2001 - 00:00
India to buy 310 Russian tanksIndia yesterday signed an agreement to buy 310 Russian T-90 main battle tanks for over $800 million for deployment against the…Fri Feb 16 2001 - 00:00
Two more survivors are found eight days after quakeA baby girl and a teenager were found alive at the weekend, eight days after western India's earthquake killed more than 30,000…Mon Feb 05 2001 - 00:00
Desperately needed food is looted by gangsAs rescue workers raced to recover bodies buried under rubble and funeral pyres dotted the disaster-struck areas in western India…Sat Feb 03 2001 - 00:00
Disease threat adds to survivors' miseryDesperate survivors of western India's earthquake sought food, shelter and medicine yesterday amid a growing threat of disease…Fri Feb 02 2001 - 00:00
Rescue workers in disaster zone say local officials hindering effortsLocal officials, unable to provide any guidance or help, are hindering rescue and relief workers arriving in western India to…Thu Feb 01 2001 - 00:00
Victim saved from rubble as rescue team delays departureA British rescue team, which found a victim still alive, trapped under the rubble of western India's earthquake, just before …Wed Jan 31 2001 - 00:00
Disease feared in quake area as bodies rotThe Prime Minister of India, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, yesterday toured the earthquake site in the Kutch region of Guajarat state…Tue Jan 30 2001 - 00:00
Death toll rises as the extent of the devastation becomes clearerThe death toll in the Indian earthquake rose to around 20,000 yesterday.Mon Jan 29 2001 - 00:00
Quake puts India's forces on `war footing'Up to 2,250 people were feared dead and thousands injured in the earthquake that shook the Indian subcontinent yesterday.Sat Jan 27 2001 - 00:00
India tests its own missileIndia successfully test-fired its locally developed long-range intermediate ballistic missile capable of delivering a 2200 lbs…Thu Jan 18 2001 - 00:00
Prisoners to be returned after 35 yearsIndia is preparing to return two Chinese prisoners of war who have been in a mental hospital in eastern Bihar state for nearly…Fri Sept 01 2000 - 01:00
Bomb linked to Kashmir civil warNine people were killed and 22 badly injured when a bomb ripped through the carriage of a night train in northern India, a few…Wed Aug 16 2000 - 01:00
Twenty-two killed in run-up to Indian national dayTwenty-two people died and 52 were wounded in a string of landmine explosions and gun battles in troubled Jammu and Kashmir state…Mon Aug 14 2000 - 01:00
10 killed and 20 injured after Kashmir separatists plant bomb in marketA car-bomb ripped through a crowded market place in northern India's Kashmir state yesterday, killing nine policemen and one …Fri Aug 11 2000 - 01:00
Security stepped up as separatists end ceasefireIndian security forces began a fresh offensive against Muslim separatists in the disputed Kashmir region yesterday, after the…Thu Aug 10 2000 - 01:00
Bombay court frees Hindu right-wing leader accused over 800 riot deathsA court in India's financial capital, Bombay, yesterday dismissed charges against a Hindu extremist leader of inciting sectarian…Wed Jul 26 2000 - 01:00
India frees Latvian pilots in advance of Putin visitIndia has released five Latvian pilots, serving life terms for waging war against the countryMon Jul 24 2000 - 01:00
Indian air crash kills at least 60An Indian commercial airliner burst into flames yesterday seconds before a second landing attempt in eastern India's Bihar state…Tue Jul 18 2000 - 01:00
Kashmir state assembly votes for autonomy after heated debateThe state assembly in northern India's disputed Kashmir state yesterday passed a controversial autonomy proposal by voice vote…Tue Jun 27 2000 - 01:00
11 held after village massacre in BiharPolice arrested 11 people yesterday in connection with the killing of 34 lower-caste villagers in eastern India's crime-ridden…Mon Jun 19 2000 - 01:00
Preacher is latest Indian Christian victimThe recent wave of anti-Christian attacks continues across India, with the police recovering the partially burnt body of a young…Tue Jun 13 2000 - 01:00
Baby Aastha's birth brings India's population to billionIndia yesterday became the world's second country after China whose population reached the billion markFri May 12 2000 - 01:00
India to stay out of Sri LankaIndia yesterday ruled out all military support to the beleaguered Sri Lankan army fighting Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of…Tue May 09 2000 - 01:00
India pledges aid to alleviate droughtIndia's Hindu nationalist-led coalition government yesterday said it would mobilise all its resources to avert the drought affecting…Wed Apr 26 2000 - 01:00
Clinton to use his official visit to India to promote regional peacePresident Clinton is to begin an official visit to India tomorrow, the first by an American head of state in 22 years.Mon Mar 20 2000 - 00:00
Eunuch seeks electionA eunuch is contesting the upcoming state assembly by-elections in central India's Madhya Pradesh state, one of an increasing…Mon Feb 07 2000 - 00:00
Six jailed for life in Calcutta over large arms dropAN Indian court yesterday sentenced a former British army officer and five Latvians to life imprisonment for sedition, four years…Thu Feb 03 2000 - 00:00
Suspected murderer of missionary is arrestedThe main suspect in the murder of an Australian missionary and his two young sons a year ago was arrested in the eastern Indian…Wed Feb 02 2000 - 00:00
Unease after India frees militants for hostagesThe relief felt in India at the safe return of 160 hostages last Friday, eight days after an Indian Airlines jetliner was seized…Mon Jan 03 2000 - 00:00
Sick passenger leaves hijacked plane for 2 hours for treatmentHijackers of an Indian Airlines aircraft temporarily released an ill passenger for treatment yesterday, as extra Taliban militiamen…Fri Dec 31 1999 - 00:00
Many still marooned as epidemics threaten India's cyclone survivorsBulldozers dumped hundreds of bloated corpses yesterday onto scarce dry patches of land for cremation across eastern India's …Thu Nov 04 1999 - 00:00
Orissa still devastated by `storm of the century'Rescue operations, led by the military, gathered momentum yesterday in eastern India's Orissa state, three days after it was …Tue Nov 02 1999 - 00:00
Colour TV works black magic on a threatened tribeThe ancient Jarawa people, who have lived on India's Andaman Islands territory for nearly 40,000 years, are threatened with extinction…Mon Oct 25 1999 - 01:00
Indian coalition sworn in amid tensionIndia`s newly elected government assumed office yesterday at a swearing-in ceremony overshadowed by grave concern over the military…Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:00
Indian military put on alert following coupThe Indian military went on alert yesterday following reports of the coup in neighbouring PakistanWed Oct 13 1999 - 01:00
Election counts in India show BJP in leadIndia's ruling coalition, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, was leading yesterday over its rival …Thu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
Sonia Gandhi's daughter a rising starMs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (27), the daughter of Mrs Sonia Gandhi, head of India's best-known political dynasty, is emerging as…Tue Sept 21 1999 - 01:00
Pakistan's navy buries 16 dead amid rising tensionsProspects of peace talks between India and Pakistan faded yesterday after both sides adopted belligerent postures over the shooting…Fri Aug 13 1999 - 01:00
India claims helicopters were fired onIndia accused Pakistan of firing at Indian military helicopters yesterday, a day after a Pakistani naval surveillance plane was…Thu Aug 12 1999 - 01:00
Indian fighter jets shoot down Pakistani maritime patrol aircraft, killing 16 servicemenIndian fighter jets shot down a Pakistani maritime reconnaissance aircraft on a training flight yesterday, killing all 16 servicemen…Wed Aug 11 1999 - 01:00
Bloody, burnt bodies strewn on railsBloodied and badly burnt bodies were strewn over the site of a head-on train crash in eastern India yesterday in which up to …Tue Aug 03 1999 - 01:00
Customers at only liquor shop in Srinagar fear they could be killedSecreted between a police and a paramilitary base in northern Kashmir state's capital, Srinagar, lies the only liquor shop in…Wed Jul 21 1999 - 01:00
The cold reality of a logistics nightmare after the heat of battleIndia may have won a decisive military victory over Pakistan-backed intruders in northern Kashmir but it has lost the battle …Tue Jul 20 1999 - 01:00
