INDIA

Police detained for questioning three people on Thursday, including the owner of an Internet cafe in Kashmir over an email allegedly claiming responsibility for a deadly bombing of the New Delhi High Court, police said.

IBM has signed an extended deal estimated at up to $1 billion to manage the information technology systems of Vodafone's Indian unit until 2017, the Economic Times reported on Thursday

Delhi is considered to be in Zone 4 of the Earthquake Hazard Map of India and is therefore designated as being in the High Damage Risk Zone. There hasn't been a significant earthquake in the city's recent history, although it has experienced minor vibrations from quakes elsewhere in the country and in Pakistan.

New Delhi, India, was shaken awake Wednesday night by a medium-to-large intensity earthquake. There were no immediate reports of damage of injuries, but strong aftershocks are likely.

At least 34 people were killed in separate terrorist attacks in India and Pakistan Wednesday when militants attacked both civilians and state officials. Police have a number of suspects, but so far nothing is confirmed.

Delhi police released sketches of two suspects hours after a suitcase bomb was placed outside Gate No. 5 of the court house, where around 300 people were lined up to enter the building.

Based in Pakistan, HUJI (which means Islamic Struggle Movement) also has branches in Bangladesh and India itself.

Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), a Pakistan-based Islamic terror organization that was behind the Mumbai blast in 2008, has claimed the responsibility for the deadly explosion outside the Delhi High Court that killed 10 people, mostly litigants, on Wednesday.

NASA's Earth Observatory has released a photo of the border between India and Pakistan taken from the International Space Station. The striking orange line depicting the hostile Asian border, however, is not a product of photoshop. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan. The fence is designed to discourage smuggling and arms trafficking and shows how divided the two nations are.

At least nine persons were killed and 45 others were injured as a power explosion rocked the Delhi High Court, India, on Wednesday.

A suspected bomb blast outside India's High Court in the heart of New Delhi killed four people Wednesday, a senior Home Ministry official told CNN-IBN channel.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina signed a series of agreements in Dhaka on Tuesday, but failed to resolve their main disputes, over transit rights for India and the sharing of river waters, officials said.

Ever since the hippies flocked to Kathmandu in the 1960's, the town has held an almost mythical appeal in the Western mind. But, what's the Kathmandu of 2011 really like?

Stocks were poised to fall sharply at the open on Tuesday on fears the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis was worsening and the U.S. economy was slipping back into a recession.

However, some controversies have already marred the trip.

Spot gold climbed more than one percent to a record high above $1,920 on Tuesday, as concerns about a worsening euro zone debt crisis and stalled global growth drove investors out of from riskier assets to safe havens, including gold.

India's cabinet approved on Monday a bill to reform land acquisition, aimed at giving farmers a better deal while helping fast-track industrialisation in Asia's third-largest economy.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Kate Middleton, who is living with her husband Prince William in Wales, seems to have understood the well-known maxim deeply by learning Welsh to fit in with the locals of Anglesey.

What millions of pop music fans around the world may not realize is that Mercury was the first Indian rock star.

A former minister and mining baron in India's iron ore-rich southern state of Karnataka was arrested on Monday in connection with a mining scandal that may have cost the state $3.6 billion in lost revenue, police said.

The new entry, which will be the 23rd Bond movie, will be directed by Sam Mendes and released in November 2012.