LUCKNOW, India _ Police say a truck burst a tire and plowed through a group of villagers in northern India, killing 13 people and seriously injuring three others.
Police officer Manoj Chauhan says the driver lost control of the vehicle and was among the injured.
Chauhan says the accident occur ....
GAUHATI, India _ GAUHATI, India (AP) _ India's army moved in to stop armed clashes over land between settlers and local villagers that have killed at least 11 people in India's remote northeast over the past two days, police said Sunday.
Two days of battles between the ethnic Bodo communi ....
NEW DELHI _ U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in India's capital on Thursday to meet with government officials and business leaders.
Ban was scheduled to meet with Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad later Thursday. On Friday, he is to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Foreig ....
NEW DELHI _ Two Indian children caught in a custody battle in Norway have returned to India after a court ruled they be handed over to their uncle.
The children, ages 1 and 3, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday accompanied by their Norwegian foster parents.
Norway's Child Welfare Service had ....
NEW DELHI _ India is planning a test launch of a new ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead to the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai.
The test of the Agni-V missile is seen as a major step in India's efforts to become a regional power that can counter the dominance of China.
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LUCKNOW, India _ A north Indian state is investigating how eyes have gone missing from two bodies at state hospitals.
Uttar Pradesh official Achche Lal says organ traffickers are suspected and new autopsies are planned.
The parents of a 16-year-old say his left eye was missing Sunday, though b ....
NEW DELHI _ Developing nations again seem unlikely to propel one of their own citizens to the World Bank presidency. It may not matter. A group of rising powers is mulling its own alternative to Western-dominated lending institutions.
The proposal for a new development bank is one of many to be d ....
NEW DELHI _ News reports say an under-construction bridge has collapsed in the hills of northern India, killing at least six people and injuring 18 others.
Press Trust of India reported that the bridge collapsed in the Pauri district of Uttarakhand state early Sunday morning. Most of those killed ....
NEW DELHI _ Maoist rebels have released one of two Italians who were abducted 11 days ago in eastern India.
Italian tourist Claudio Colangelo was handed over to the crew of a television news channel on Sunday. He says he hopes the second man will be released soon.
Colangelo and Paolo Bosusco w ....
NEW DELHI _ Officials says suspected Maoist rebels have kidnapped a local lawmaker in India's Orissa state, where two Italian men were abducted by rebels last week.
State official Naveen Patnaik told reporters that Jhina Hikaka was abducted by armed men before dawn on Saturday. The kidnapping ....
NEW DELHI _ Debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines says it will suspend international flights from this weekend and scale back its Indian services as the government considers cancelling its license.
Kingfisher Chairman Vijay Mallya says Wednesday the airline will run 170 daily flights within India on 28 ....
BHUBANESHWAR, India _ Talks to free two Italian men abducted by Maoist rebels in a poor eastern Indian state have been delayed because of a disagreement over the choice of negotiators, the state's chief minister said Wednesday.
The rebels have said Orissa's government has until Thursday t ....
BHUBANESHWAR, India _ Maoist rebels have abducted two Italian men in a poor eastern Indian state and demanded that the state government stop all anti-Maoist operations in return for their release, police and the rebels said Sunday.
The two men were abducted late Saturday while they were on a trek ....
NEW DELHI _ Indian police say a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat's wife in India is connected to a failed attack in Bangkok the next day blamed on a group of Iranian men.
Israel has accused Iran of carrying out both attacks as well as a failed bombing in the former Soviet republic of Georgi ....
