R.K. Singh

Pakistan has strongly rejected an accusation from India that militants who killed five paramilitary police in Indian Kashmir came from across the de facto border.

Militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary police in an ambush in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said, in the deadliest attack for nearly five years.

At least 15 people were killed and 52 injured when three bombs in crowded areas shook the southern Indian city of Hyderabad late on Thursday, police said.

The family of a Kashmiri separatist who was executed at the weekend has rejected an offer by Indian authorities to pray at his graveside inside a prison, insisting the body be buried in his home state.

India on Saturday executed a Kashmiri separatist over his role in a deadly attack on parliament in 2001 after his final mercy plea was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, according to officials.

A fruit seller sentenced to death for taking part in the plot to attack India's parliament in 2001 is to be executed on Saturday after his final mercy plea was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has insisted he is "safe and happy" in India in a bid to end a controversy sparked by an article he wrote on being Muslim in the Hindu-majority country.

India's prime minister said Tuesday there could be no "business as usual" with Pakistan after a deadly flare-up in Kashmir as New Delhi halted a new visa programme and the fallout hit sports events.

India's government suspended a new programme to allow Pakistani pensioners to get visas on arrival at the border, citing technical glitches only hours after officials said it had begun Tuesday.

Indian police Saturday baton-charged and tear-gassed people demonstrating in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a female student on a bus last weekend.

India's government, facing swelling protests over the gang-rape of a female student on a bus, vowed on Friday to press for life sentences for her six attackers and promised stricter policing.

India's cricket board said Tuesday it has secured government clearance to host Pakistan for a short tour later this year.

India threatened to take action on Thursday against Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions, as leaked documents revealed the government scrambling to censor online material.

India has blamed Pakistan for posting threatening messages on the Internet that triggered a mass exodus from Bangalore and Mumbai by migrants fleeing to their homes in the northeast.

India's prime minister said Friday that the unity of the country was at stake as thousands of migrants from the northeast continued to flee Bangalore and other cities after anonymous threats.

Federal anti-terror agents joined local police in the western Indian city of Pune on Thursday to probe a series of low-intensity blasts the night before when the new home minister had been due to visit.

Four low-intensity blasts hit the western Indian city of Pune on Wednesday, injuring one person, on the same day as a scheduled visit -- cancelled at the last minute -- by the country's new home minister.

Indian police recovered 12 bodies from rice fields and roadsides in the remote state of Assam on Wednesday as the death toll from ethnic violence rose to 38 after four days of bloody clashes.

A nation-wide strike against rising petrol prices in India closed shops and disrupted public transport on Thursday, with the under-fire government facing new dissent over its economic management.

Ten French nationals working with a charity in India allegedly linked to Maoist rebels were inspecting farm projects, the French organisation that arranged the trip said on Tuesday.