India has assured foreign investors it is not contemplating capital controls as a step to stabilise the falling Indian rupee.

India has said it is running out of patience with Pakistan’s army-backed transgressions across disputed Kashmir as cross-border firing spread further north for the first time since the two armies agreed to a ceasefire in 2003.

India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese premier Li Keqiang said yesterday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military standoff between the Asian giants in the Himalayas.

A second suspect was arrested for the rape of a 5-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.

A second suspect has been arrested over the rape of a five-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case which has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.

British PM David Cameron arrived in Mumbai today at the head of the largest trade delegation taken overseas by a prime minister, on a mission to “open doors for British business” in India.

The Pakistani army has said Indian troops fired at one of its posts on the disputed Kashmir border, killing one soldier.

Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism.

Society should be shouting from the rooftops and insisting more be done to stop the escalation of rape attacks, according to the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Indian police have charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

Indian police charged six men with murder today, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital.

An Indian woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi died at a Singapore hospital, after her ordeal galvanised Indians to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence that impacts thousands of them every day.

Russia and India signed weapons deals worth billions of dollars today as president Vladimir Putin sought to further boost ties with an old ally.

An Indian student who was savagely gang-raped has begun to recount her ordeal to police, as authorities reacted to violent protests by banning demonstrations in the capital.

Tributes poured in yesterday for sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who died in Southern California yesterday, aged 92.

Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities yesterday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam.

The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in the US died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by police, the FBI announced today.

Rajesh Khanna, the first actor to gain superstar status in Indian movies during a near three-decade reign at the top of the Bollywood film industry, died aged 69 today after a brief illness.

Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote north east India, an official said.

About 40 people were dead and 160 missing after an overcrowded passenger ferry with 350 people aboard split into two and sank in a river in north-east India in a storm.

India has marked a major success in its battle against polio by being removed from the World Health Organisation’s list of countries plagued by the crippling disease.

Israel accused arch-enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks that targeted embassy staff in India and Georgia yesterday, wounding four people.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other websites are facing prosecution in Indian courts for refusing to censor themselves and remove contents considered insulting to Indian leaders and major religious figures.

EXTRAVAGANT firework displays lit up the skies from Sydney to New York in a global New Year’s party as people around the world set aside their worries to welcome 2012.

US President Barack Obama has arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali for a summit of East Asian nations at the end of a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will hold emergency talks today with European leaders in a last-ditch bid to salvage his G20 meeting following the Greek referendum turmoil.

Rescue workers used shovels and their bare hands to pull bodies from the debris of collapsed buildings today, as the death toll from an earthquake which hit north-east India, Nepal and Tibet rose to 50.

A strong earthquake shook north-eastern India and Nepal tonight, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending MPs in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.

A bomb hidden in a briefcase ripped through a crowd of people waiting to enter a New Delhi court today, killing 11 people and wounding scores more.

A top ruling party politician in India has warned lawmakers not to bypass the country’s constitution as they seek to resolve an impasse with a high-profile hunger striker who has demanded that they pass an anti-corruption bill.

India’s prime minister has appealed to an anti-corruption activist to end his week-long hunger strike, offering to ask parliament to debate a tougher new laws.

Criticism is growing against an Indian activist’s hunger strike, with public figures saying it threatens democracy, even as thousands echoed his demands for stronger anti-corruption legislation.

A prominent anti-corruption activist has been detained by police just hours before he was set to embark on a public hunger strike which was certain to embarrass India’s scandal-plagued government.

The triple bombing that killed 17 in the heart of India's financial capital has sparked anger over the government's inability to prevent terror strikes despite overhauling security forces after the 2008 Mumbai siege.

Indian officials called an emergency security meeting today to investigate three co-ordinated bombings that killed at least 21 people in the country’s financial capital in the worst terrorist attack since the 2008 Mumbai siege.

The death toll from a train derailment in northern India rose to at least 60 today as more bodies were pulled out of the mangled coaches.

Shops and businesses were shut and public transport halted as a two-day strike demanding the creation of a new state in southern India paralyzed the region.

Thousands of tearful devotees, including top politicians, gathered today for the funeral of Sathya Sai Baba, one of India’s best-known Hindu ascetics revered as a divine incarnation with miraculous healing powers.

SATHYA SAI BABA, one of India’s most famous gurus, died in hospital yesterday, triggering a global outpouring of grief and tributes from devotees across politics, sport and entertainment.

Prosecutors have charged India’s former telecommunications minister, two other officials and six company executives with fraud and forgery in a scandal estimated to have cost the country billions of euro.

Thousands of people holding placards and shouting slogans have protested in India’s capital against what they called widespread corruption and poor governance.

President Barack Obama claimed today he had a stronger hand on the world stage despite electoral defeats at home, failure to get a free-trade agreement with South Korea and lacklustre international support for his policy with China on trade and currency disputes.