It is 25 years since the end of a campaign which brought unrest to the famous tea-growing region of Darjeeling in northern India. During the early 1980s, Nepali-speaking separatists were agitating for autonomy - for what they called Gorkhaland, but in August 1988 a deal was done to end the violence. Claire Bowes has been speaking to two sisters whose family was devastated during the conflict

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes, Ramayan. Based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana, it brought India to a standstill every Sunday morning as more than a hundred million people tuned in. Leading actress Deepika Chikhalia recalls working on the hit television series.

(Picture: Women hold candles in front of a picture of Hindu gods. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975. He is believed to have been killed by the Mafia. The search for his body continues to this day. Listen to one of the FBI agents involved in the original investigations.

Photo: Jimmy Hoffa testifying at a hearing into labour rackets, 1958 (Keystone/Getty Images)

In the last days of World War II, an American warship, the USS Indianapolis, was torpedoed in the Pacific. For days, no one came to the survivors' rescue. Left adrift in shark-infested waters, hundreds of sailors died. We hear from Loel Dean Cox one of the few who survived.

(Photo: Last rites for a crew member held by ship mates and men from the US base Peleliu)

In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.Catholic, Father Alec Reid and Protestant, Reverend Harold Good joined General John de Chastelain to oversee the decommissioning process. Hear their story.

Photo: An IRA mural in Belfast. Credit: Press Association.

On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released. They could choose whether to return home, or to go with their captors to a new country. A handful of American prisoners of war decided to go to communist China. Hear what happend to one of those GIs.

(Photo: David Hawkins in 2011)

The Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony is one of the most wanted men in the world. His Lord's Resistance Army is notorious for abducting children to use as fighters or sex slaves. Hear the story of one young woman, taken from her school aged 14 and forced to live with Kony and bear his children.

(Photo: Joseph Kony in 2006. Credit: Associated Press)

In the summer of 1935 the world's most famous programme for treating alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous, was founded in Akron, Ohio.

(Photo: Two men pouring alcohol down a drain during prohibition in America circa 1920. Credit : Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. Hundreds, possibly thousands of Tamils were killed in the capital Colombo. The violence ended after a few days, but the killings had sparked off a civil war which would last for more than quarter of a century.

(Photo: The aftermath of the violence in a street in Colombo. Credit: Associated Press)

In July 1973, a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway. Israel's secret services had wrongly identified Bouchiki as the leader of an armed Palestinian group. Five members of the hit-squad were jailed in Norway for the killing. We hear from one of their lawyers.

Photo: Lillehammer (BBC)