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Despite a confession by the sole surviving suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks and his lawyer's offer to withdraw from the case, an Indian court said Thursday that it will continue with the trial.

The surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks denied that he confessed to avoid the death penalty.

India's MPs protest after it emerges that former president APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked before boarding a flight to the US.

The world's most populous nations will gaze skywards on Wednesday as the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st Century lays a carpet of darkness across India and China, from Mumbai to Shanghai.

A top court in the Indian capital of New Dehli on Thursday overturned a colonial-era law banning gay sex between consenting adults in a ruling hailed by activists as a victory for human rights in the world's biggest democracy.

Vineet Nayar is reported to have called Americans graduates "unemployable"; the CEO of IT services vendor HCL Technologies was speaking recently in New York.

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India protests that its neighbor is not serious about bringing Mumbai perpetrators to justice.

A court in Lahore, Pakistan, today ordered the release of a firebrand Islamic cleric with alleged links to the deadly attacks in Mumbai, India, last year, sparking an angry rebuke from Indian officials that Pakistan is not committed to meting out justice to militants.

The Indian economy expanded 5.8% from a year earlier in the January-March quarter with social spending and financial services the biggest growth drivers.