A bone test is being conducted to confirm the age of a juvenile suspect in custody for the fatal assault and gang-rape of a young woman in India, while prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the other five men arrested with him, police said yesterday.

A bone test is being carried out to confirm the age of a young suspect in custody over the fatal assault and gang rape of a woman on a bus in India’s capital.

Three more soldiers have been killed as avalanches swept through their posts in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the Indian army said today.

The death toll from a storm that swept past the east coast of India and slammed into neighbouring Bangladesh rose to nearly 90 today.

At least 12 people in India have been killed in a huge storm brewing off the country’s east coast.

IN THE two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers fought each other across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 ceasefire agreement.

I WISH to clarify the issue in relation to the refusal to allow a Sikh member of the Garda Reserve to wear a turban.

A fire broke out at the Indian army’s largest arms depot in Kashmir today, wounding at least 30 people, officials said, as shells exploded into the air and a massive plume of black smoke blanketed the Himalayan region.

India test-fired a medium-range nuclear-capable missile today with a range of nearly 100 miles, a defence ministry official said.

THE death toll in India passed 600 last night after rescue workers and soldiers pulled out 90 more bodies in the frontier Tangdar region, 65 miles north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.

Angry villagers briefly blocked roads today in earthquake-ravaged regions of Indian-controlled Kashmir, protesting at the slow pace of rescue and aid efforts in reaching their destroyed homes.

A Pakistan-born medical student was ordered today to stand trial in Australia on a charge of training with the outlawed militant Islamic group Laskar-e-Taiba.

A BOMB exploded during an Independence Day parade in India's remote northeast yesterday killing at least 15 people, including schoolchildren.

A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India’s remote northeast today, killing at least 15 people, mostly children, just an hour after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to fight terrorism.

Guerillas chopped off the ears, nose and tongue of a teenage girl they suspected of helping police today, while other violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir left at least eight people dead, police 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.

A grenade exploded at a crowded market in the summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir, killing a shopkeeper, while security forces shot dead 10 suspected militants elsewhere in the Himalayan region today.

SERVING and retired gardaí, forensic and air accident investigators from Ireland are among witnesses listed to be called to give evidence at the trial of two men accused of the 1985 Air India atrocity.

THE LE Aisling was one of the first ships to arrive at the scene of the felled Air India Flight 182, around four hours after air traffic controllers at Shannon lost contact with the Boeing 747 jet airliner.

The Indian army killed eight suspected Islamic militants today after they crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan.

INDIA deployed thousands of troops to prevent an eruption of Hindu-Muslim rioting yesterday after gunmen attacked a major Hindu temple complex in a raid that left 32 people dead, most of them worshippers.

Artillery guns boomed across the India-Pakistan frontier overnight after a two-week lull, killing at least one civilian and wounding another, an Indian army spokesman said today.

The Indian army has withdrawn three strike divisions from the Pakistan frontier as militant infiltrations decline, senior army and government officials said today.

The Indian army killed three suspected Islamic militants today after they crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan, an army spokesman said. It was the first such incident since Islamabad promised to end such incursions last month.

At least six people, including five civilians, have been killed as India and Pakistan continue to exchange mortars and artillery fire across the ceasefire line dividing the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

The number of casualties in a bombing in Kashmir has risen.

Indian and Pakistani border guards exchanged assault rifle and machine gun fire today, hours before the Indian Parliament was to issue a response to a terrorist attack that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad.

India has denied a report that US and British special forces are hunting for Osama bin Laden in Kashmir.

Four suspected Islamic militants and one soldier have been killed in gun battles in war-torn Kashmir.

The Indian army today said it had killed five Pakistani members of an Islamic militant group.

The Indian army successfully test-fired a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead today, a move that immediately drew criticism from Germany, Britain and Pakistan.

Indian police have blamed Islamic militants for the murder of 12 Muslims, including eight children, in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir today.

Three civilians have been injured after Indian and Pakistani soldiers resumed sporadic firing across the border.

Two Indian soldiers were killed in a suspected Islamic militant attack on a border post in the disputed province of Kashmir last night.

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.

Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire and shelled each other through a second night as the Indian army asked more villagers along the border to move to safer places.

India put its army on high alert today as it decided how to respond to the terrorist attack on parliament, which it blames on Islamic militant groups backed by Pakistan.

The commander of India’s army in the disputed Kashmir province has warned that his country could declare war on Pakistan if Islamic militants keep fighting for freedom from Indian rule.

At least five people have died in a gunbattle between suspected Islamic militants and the Indian army in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

For India, the worst possible fallout from US-led strikes on Afghanistan would be an Islamic fundamentalist takeover in Pakistan, placing nuclear weapons in radical hands.

The Indian Army has attacked Pakistani military posts across the ceasefire line in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

More than 100 villages in India's eastern Cuttack district have been washed away by floods.

A bomb at the gate of the main telephone exchange in Kashmir has wounded at least 30 people waiting to pay their bills.