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About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road and rail link between Punjab Province, Pakistan's largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions.

Maoist rebels on Monday freed the three surviving police officers they abducted more than a week ago during a deadly gunbattle in eastern India, police said.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney will spend three days this week in India, where he will ask officials to focus more law-enforcement resources and share more information with Canada on "immigration fraudsters'' who often charge applicants thousands of dollars and use fake documents to bolster their cases.

Patna, Sep 5 : A week-long hostage crisis in Bihar took a new twist Sunday amid claims that Maoists had freed three abducted policemen after having killed a fourth two days ago.

The Ayodhya temple issue that helped the Bharatiya Janata Party come to power in the past appears to be taking a dominant position once again with a meeting of the party's Uttar Pradesh executive concluding Sunday by taking it to a high pitch.

Jammu Sep.5 : The Scheduled Tribe Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir today offered their full support to Jat community in their current struggle for grant of Other Backward Class status.

India Sunday test fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from a defence base in Orissa, official sources said.

A "never-ending disaster" is how a U.N. official is describing the situation in Pakistan after the devastating floods of this year's monsoon season.

You can now get your portraits done Bollywood style. Indian Hippy, a two-year-old online company, offers hand-painted portraits customised to suit your preferences.

By Parvez Butt, Srinagar, Sep 4 : Frequent shutdowns and recurring imposition of curfew in Jammu and Kashmir has cost many people their jobs as the state loses revenue worth one billion rupees everyday.

A month after worst natural disaster, those most affected have lost almost everything they had.

Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.

Chandigarh, Sep 3 The authorities in Haryana's Pachkula district Friday rejected the plea of disgraced former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore for parole to supervise the harvesting of crops at his agricultural land near here.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the UN called reports of mass rape in the Congo "outrageous", as the United Nations went on the defense over allegations that they'd known about the rapes longer than initially reported.

Remember Pooja Batra? The former Indian beauty queen and actress is Hollywood bound.

Sonia Gandhi was Friday elected Congress president unopposed for the fourth successive time, becoming the longest serving Congress chief.

Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji, leader of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist , has called a 48-hour shutdown from Sep 13 in eight states demanding a probe into what he alleged was a 'cold blooded murder' of party colleague Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad by Andhra Pradesh Police.

India Friday conveyed its 'serious concerns' to China over the reported presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and rejected Beijing's description of Jammu and Kashmir as 'India-controlled Kashmir'. India's Ambassador to China S. Jaishankar met Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Zhang Zhijun in Beijing Friday and conveyed ...

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 3rd September, 2010 India and South Korea on Friday inked two landmark Memoranda of Understandings to give a huge boost to strategic defence cooperation between the two nations.

Three weeks after being accused by United States Senator Chuck Schumer of bringing in lower-paid workers from India and stealing jobs from Americans, those dreaded Indian employers -- as well as US and other multinational corporations -- were in Edison, New Jersey, this past weekend, this time to entice highly skilled Indians in the US to head in ...