Law & Order
India Maoist rebels kill 24 troops in West Bengal
At least 24 troops were killed when armed Maoists attacked a camp of the paramilitary forces in India's West Bengal state, officials said.
India-Pakistan talks under threat after bomb kills nine
Long-awaited peace talks between India and Pakistan are hanging in the balance after a terrorist bomb attack in Pune, Western India, killed nine and injured 57.
Kashmir avalanche kills 17 soldiers, Indian army says
At least 17 Indian soldiers have been killed after an avalanche hit a military training camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, the army says.
Stampede kills seven at Indian religious festival
KOLKATA — Seven Hindu pilgrims were killed Thursday in a stampede at a religious festival on the river Ganges in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a senior police official said.
18 feared drowned as boat capsizes in eastern India
CALCUTTA, India — About 18 people are feared drowned after an overcrowded boat capsized on a river in eastern India, an official said on Monday.
Major fire at Indian oil depot, 6 killed, 150 injured
New Delhi - A huge fire engulfed an oil depot in India's north-western state of Rajasthan Friday, leaving six people dead and nearly 150 injured, while authorities evacuated an estimated 500,000 people from the area, media reports said.
More than 100 feared dead in India chimney collapse
RAIPUR, India — Rescuers on Thursday were searching desperately for survivors in rubble left by the collapse of a giant chimney in central India, with a top union official saying more than 100 workers were feared dead.
Stampede kills 5 students at New Delhi school
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of students who were jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured in India's capital.
Powerful Indian politician killed in chopper crash
HYDERABAD, India — Rescuers retrieved the bodies Thursday of a powerful Indian politician and four others whose helicopter crashed in dense jungle in southern India during a pounding rainstorm.
India celebrating 63rd Independence Day
SRINAGAR, India — Troops killed four Muslim rebels in Indian Kashmir as a separatist strike paralysed the restive region Saturday in protest against celebrations marking India's 1947 independence, police said.
FBI agent testifies in Mumbai terror trial
An FBI officer has appeared before a court in the Indian city of Mumbai to testify on last November's attacks which killed more than 170 people.
FBI may testify in Mumbai terror attacks trial
Two FBI officers are expected to appear later before a special court in the Indian city of Mumbai to testify on last November's attacks.
Three Indians sentenced to death over 2003 Mumbai blasts
A court on Thursday sentenced to death three Indians found guilty of conspiring with a Pakistan-based militant group to carry out serial blasts in Mumbai in 2003 that killed at least 54 people, officials said.
Thai woman gets 8 years in Indian jail
A special court at Muzaffar Nagar on Tuesday sentenced a Thai national to eight years imprisonment for carrying a forged passport. Meesal Yong, 35, has been lodged in Muzaffar Nagar jail since 2004.
Court: Confession won't stop Mumbai terror trial
Despite a confession by the sole surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks and his lawyer's offer to withdraw from the case, an Indian court said Thursday that it will continue with the trial.
Mumbai gunman suspect 'ready to die'
The alleged gunman captured alive during last year's Mumbai terror attacks told an Indian court Wednesday that he was ready to face execution.
Indian leader faces jail after call for rival to be 'raped'
A senior politician from India's ruling Congress Party, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, faces up to 10 years in prison for publicly suggesting a rival woman leader should be raped.
A sixth person has died in the collapse of a bridge being built for the Indian capital's metro rail, police said Monday, as the government prepared to investigate the prestigious project's worst-ever accident.
Indian court overturns ban on gay sex
An Indian court Thursday ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law which bans homosexual sex.
India Maoist official in custody
A court in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta has remanded a leading Maoist "spokesman" in custody after he walked out of a talk show on a TV channel.