Reuters - India's parliament has always been a boisterous and chaotic place that, like the country itself, still somehow worked: these days, it's not even muddling through.
Reuters - Police on Wednesday arrested six alleged members of a banned militant group, including one Pakistani man, in connection with three bomb blasts and a shootout last year.
Reuters - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake, at a depth of one kilometre, was recorded off India's remote Nicobar Islands at 1942 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Reuters - State-run oil firms will cut petrol prices by 0.78 rupees a litre, or nearly 1.2 percent from Thursday, Indian Oil Corp said, the second cut this month, reflecting global prices and potentially easing near double-digit inflation.
Reuters - Australia's foreign minister on Wednesday backed the formation of a security pact with India and the United States, a tie-up that could fuel China's worries of being fenced in by wary neighbours.
Reuters - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday.
Reuters - A senior Pakistani army official has said a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers was a deliberate, blatant act of aggression, hardening Pakistan's stance on an incident that could hurt efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
Reuters - The government refused to allow a parliamentary vote on Wednesday on rolling back controversial retail reforms, and the current legislative session now faces more disruption, making it unlikely that any significant laws will be passed this year.
Reuters - India's economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the quarter that ended in September, revealing the heavy toll that stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and crisis-hit global capital markets are having on Asia's third-biggest economy.
Reuters - Pakistan's prime minister ruled out "business as usual" with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan.