A bomb blew up a bus carrying paramilitary soldiers and their families, killing two soldiers and a child in the second explosion of the day in the insurgency-hit northeastern Indian Assam state, police said.

A bomb attack on a bus carrying holidaying soldiers and their families killed 33 people and wounded 10 in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, just hours before the country’s new government began work, officials said.

Suspected Islamic militants blew up a paramilitary bus in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir today, killing at least 28 people and wounding 15 others, less than 24 hours after India swore in its new prime minister.

Suspected Islamic militants blew up a paramilitary bus in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir today, killing at least 26 soldiers and wounding 15 others, officials said.

INDIAN security forces battled rebels in Kashmir and suspected insurgents detonated a grenade in a busy market Thursday in violence that left 12 people dead.

Government forces today killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of India’s most senior elected official in Kashmir, ending a 24-hour stand-off, police said.

A bomb exploded in the main wholesale fruit market in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, killing six people and injuring 25 others, security forces said.

Dozens of rain-soaked Indian passengers jostled onto a luxury bus today that honked wildly as it headed for Pakistan, resuming a transportation link disrupted 18 months ago by threats of war between the hostile, nuclear-armed neighbours.

Indian security forces killed three men suspected of being leading Islamic rebels in a gun battle today, officials said.

Six Islamic militants and an Indian soldier were killed in three separate clashes in Kashmir today, said police, who claimed that two of the dead guerrillas had crossed from Pakistani territory.

SUSPECTED Islamic militants ambushed the well-guarded campaign convoy of the Kashmir tourism minister yesterday, leaving two members of her security unit dead and three others injured, police said.

Suspected Islamic rebels killed three members of the pro-India ruling party in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, police said.

Two Kashmiri boys were killed in militant attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir today, as India’s defence minister said he did not see an immediate resolution to a tense border standoff with rival Pakistan.

Indian and Pakistani troops are exchanging heavy mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire along the line which divides Kashmir.

Hopes for peace were signalled alongside threats of war by both India and Pakistan, as the nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged deadly shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing at least six people.

One person has been killed and 13 others injured in a rifle-propelled grenade attack, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Security forces lifted a siege on a mosque in northern India following a gun battle that left two suspected Islamic militants and a civilian dead, police said.

Pakistan is offering to hold talks with India about a mutual withdrawal of troops from their border.

Pakistan-based Islamic militants in Kashmir were lying low today amid rising US pressure on Islamabad to clampdown on terrorists who have brought India and its neighbour to the brink of a fourth war.

Islamic guerrillas ambushed a paramilitary patrol truck and killed seven soldiers in strife-torn Jammu-Kashmir, and lost one of their own when the troops fired back, officials said today.

Indian and Pakistani guns fell silent after the heaviest exchanges this year in troubled Kashmir, as the US secretary of state began his visit to the subcontinent.

A land mine blast has ripped through a bus carrying schoolgirls, killing one and injuring 20.

Kashmir reacted with gloom, anger and despair today at the failure of the India-Pakistan summit, which had raised hopes of modest progress toward resolution of the five decade dispute over the Himalayan territory.

Soldiers beat a group of 17 journalists with sticks and batons as they covered a funeral procession in India’s troubled Kashmir province today, injuring at least three seriously.

The Indian government has invited Kashmir's main separatist group for talks to settle the five-decade-old dispute over the area.

Soldiers on a last ditch search have dug out a brother and sister who survived 10 days under the rubble after India's earthquake, living off crackers and water.