AN Amazonian tribe has been discovered that has no concept of time or dates, scientists said.

Indian police have detained four men for questioning about bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, a top state official said today.

Suspected Maoist rebels freed more than 300 prisoners in an dramatic overnight raid on an Indian jail that left 11 people dead and triggered a protest today by the inmates’ relatives who were beaten back by club-wielding police.

Free alcohol distributed by village politicians to win votes in India’s largest state has killed 19 people over two days and was found to be laced with insecticides and other potent chemicals.

In a likely suicide attack, unidentified militants blew up a security fence today and stormed a northern Indian Hindu shrine at the heart of a bitter sectarian dispute, setting off a fierce gunbattle with security personnel that left five other attackers dead.

Security forces fought rebels in a fierce gun battle today near India’s border with Nepal, leaving 21 dead in the first co-ordinated attack involving both Indian and Nepalese communist militants, police said.

India and Pakistan took a giant leap to put more than a half-century of bloodshed behind them, agreeing today to start talks next month on core disputes of nationalism and religion that have taken the nuclear-armed nations into three wars.

Building on momentum toward better relations after a half-century of venom, the leaders of nuclear rivals Pakistan and India held much-anticipated face-to-face talks today.

India’s prime minister called on South Asia’s nations to put aside a long history of suspicion and “petty rivalries” and embrace a future of trust and understanding, before a historic meeting with his Pakistani counterpart.

INDIA unveiled unprecedented proposals to normalise relations with rival Pakistan yesterday, offering to talk with separatist politicians in Kashmir and giving new hope to families divided by five decades of conflict.

Wolves have killed at least seven children and injured more than a dozen people in northern India over the last three months, officials said today.

KNOW Racism, a national anti-racism campaign, has launched an educational video aimed at secondary schools with a view to raising awareness of race concerns in the classroom.

THE United States and a bloc of Southeast Asian nations have agreed on a sweeping anti-terrorism treaty intended to plug security holes, boost US aid to the region and free the United States to more easily confront terrorists there.

India’s new foreign minister doubts Pakistan intends to stop cross-border incursions by Islamic militants in Kashmir completely, and said India must be "very, very careful"’ in dealing with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.