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An Indian woman shakes her head covered in coloured powder as she celebrates Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Mumbai India, Monday, March 17, 2014.

Dust in the air in North Africa and West Asia absorbs sunlight west of India, warming the air and strengthening the winds carrying moisture eastward, raining down in India about a week later.

A military officer looks out a window during a search and rescue mission onboard an aircraft belonging to the Vietnamese airforce off Vietnam's Tho Chu island on March 10, 2014.

Toyota said Monday it has suspended production at its two Indian auto assembly plants in response to threats against management and "deliberate" assembly-line stoppages, as efforts to hammer out a labour deal failed.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor, the Indian unit of Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor, has not said for how long the lockout will continue, NHK reported.

Mumbai: The Indian government has expressed its displeasure with the US Justice Department for refiling criminal charges against an envoy whose arrest in New York last year on charges of underpaying her domestic help caused a crisis in diplomatic relations.

" In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron called for India-Pakistan talks to resolve their issues, including the killing of Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir."

Anant Kumar, a Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman, announced late Saturday Narendra Modi's nomination from the city of Varanasi in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India's most populated state, with nearly 200 million people.

The international hunt has now switched to focus on two flight corridors - as India suspends its search around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and operations in the South China Sea are called off.

Strobe Talbott's tweet that hijackers may have wanted to use the missing Malaysian flight to attack Indian cities should be seen in the context of Lashkar-e-Tayiba's long standing plans to attack Indian cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai from the skies.

Wising you could help out with the search for the Malaysia Aircraft that mysteriously went missing over the weekend? Well, here's on way to do it from your desk.

Indian navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day on Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, officials said.

Amid the void of information on their fates, it seems at times the passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been reduced to a number.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Searchers zeroed in Friday on a remote island chain in the Indian Ocean for a missing jet that may have flown for hours after it vanished.

The hanging of two of the four men convicted for raping and murdering a woman in New Delhi in late 2012 has been stayed, according to a ruling by India's high court issued today.

Kerala University physics graduate Arun Madhavan Kumar was confirmed to be assistant secretary of commerce and director general of the US and Foreign Commercial Service by a voice vote Wednesday along with Puneet Talwar, a longtime White House national security staffer.

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SRINAGAR : Indian government forces shot and killed a teenage Kashmiri boy and wounded two others as hundreds of rock-throwing protesters threatened to attack their armoured vehicle in the Indian-held Kashmir, reported a private TV channel on Friday.

Sialkot- The local villagers caught accused rapist Ibrar Ahmed while raping a 3years old child in village Bhaaganiyaan-Badiana, Pasrur tehsil.

A Pakistani teenager died Friday after setting herself on fire after a court dropped charges against four men accused of raping her, police said.