Manmohan Singh, the soft-spoken economist named India’s next prime minister, pledged today to work to restore religious harmony, keep India investor-friendly and seek peace with rival Pakistan.

Fear of assassination has forced Italian-born Sonia Gandhi to refuse to be India’s next prime minister.

Sonia Gandhi no longer wants to be India’s first foreign-born prime minister, members of her Congress party and its political allies claimed today.

Congress party law makers said they re-elected Sonia Gandhi as their leader today in a crucial step toward her being named India’s first foreign-born prime minister.

Angry members of a Bangladeshi school cricket squad battered a team-mate to death after he accidentally smashed a new trophy they had won.