As part of the Union Home Ministry's strategy to secure the country's borders, over 500 additional Border Out Posts are set to be established at an estimated cost of over Rs 1,800 crore.

Shane Warne may not be part of the Australian squad in the tour of India but the retired spin great is doing his bit to ensure that his compatriots come out with flying colours against Anil Kumble's men in the four-match Test series starting in October 2008.

Guess which Indian ring tone is being downloaded the most all over the world? No, it is not the latest Bollywood chartbuster, but a public health message that goes "condom, condom".

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook parts of northern and western region of the country on Saturday. The intensity of the tremor was higher in Jammu and Kashmir, Met officials said.

India got the NSG waiver by consensus, diplomats at the Vienna said on Saturday.

The White House hopes that India and the US could put the furore caused over the release of a so-called "secret letter" on Washington's position on their civil nuclear deal behind them to get the "agreement done."

How many "actually poor" is India home to? Amid some confusion, sparked in part by a World Bank report, the government is setting up a new group to get the answer.

India wants the United States to abide by a World Trade Organisation ruling in the "shortest possible time" to end an anti-dumping measure that has put a financial burden on the Indian shrimp industry.

The three top separatist Kashmiri leaders were put under house arrest on Friday, ahead of planned protests during weekly prayers, police said.

Most of the poor among India's 138 million Muslims do not get subsidised food grains in rural India, says Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, one of the leading organisations working for the welfare of the community.

India informed Pakistan on Friday that it was ready to start cross-Line of Control trade from October 1, following which Islamabad offered to host a meeting to speedily operationalise commerce between the two parts of Kashmir.

India's external debt jumped 30.3 percent to $221.2 billion at the end of March, mainly due to the weakening of the American dollar, the finance ministry said on Thursday.

The Asian Development Bank is supporting closer regional cooperation and integration in South Asia through a grant designed to help strengthen policy reforms in India and Pakistan, the bank said on Wednesday.

Sri Lankan mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis says the swashbuckling right-hander is the only Indian batsman he found difficult to bowl to in the recently-concluded Test and ODI series.

Pakistan is looking beyond its senior hockey players who under-performed in last month's Beijing Games where the three-time Olympic champion finished eighth, its worst showing in the Games history.

China has indicated it was ready to consider supporting the India-US nuclear deal provided the Nuclear Suppliers Group can strike "a balance between nuclear non-proliferation and the peaceful use of energy".

India and Bangladesh agreed on Sunday to "expeditiously" hand over criminals taking shelter in each other's territories and take action against militant outfits based on "real time and actionable information".

Despite their historic 3-2 series-win against Sri Lanka, India has dropped to fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship table, released on Saturday.

The navies and the air forces of India and China are seeking to engage with each other for the first time this year to build up on the goodwill generated by the first joint exercise between the two armies last year.

India lost to Sri Lanka in the fifth and the final ODI in Colombo on Friday but lifted the Idea Cup, sealing the series 3-2.

National football coach Bob Houghton, who guided India to AFC Challenge Cup victory, has expressed his keenness to continue at the helm of affairs for a second tenure to take the country to a higher level in Asian football.

India and southeast Asian trading bloc Asean on Thursday concluded talks for freeing trade in goods that will create an European Union-style open market with a combined population of about 1.7 billion people.