India

AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likely irking the US, China and Pakistan in one fell swoop.

AFP - The world's biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a monument to a Hindu warrior king in the sea off Mumbai.

In a burst of nationalist fervour, around one billion dollars is being spent on the two giant effigies, each more than twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

NEW DELHI: India and Bulgaria will soon have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a bid to promote tourism. The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of MoU between India and Bulgaria for strengthening cooperation in tourism.

AFP - Scientists say they have confirmed the existence of ice on the Moon's surface for the first time, a discovery that could one day help humans survive there.

Signs of ice on the Moon have been reported by scientists for years, but previous observations could have been explained by other phenomena, such as unusually reflective lunar soil, the study authors said Tuesday.

India on July 30 released a final draft of a list of its citizens in the northeastern state of Assam, leaving some 4 million people on edge to prove their Indian nationality.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on Wednesday took on a referral from the Supreme Court of Justice related to amendments to the Law on the execution of sentences and deprivation of liberty measures.

President Klaus Iohannis in Sibiu on Saturday said that in his opinion the system of emergency ordinances must stop, because "almost all governments used them, mainly during summer recess."

Former Territorial Defence commander Nehru Ganic was charged with having command responsibility for an attack on the village of Cemerno in 1992 in which 30 Serbs were killed, some by being mutilated.

BBC - An investigation has been launched after 27 people, most of them children, died when a school bus fell into a gorge in a mountainous region of India.

Most of the passengers were below the age of 10, police said. The bus driver and two teachers were also killed in the accident on Monday evening.

The incident occurred in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.

Bollywood star Salman Khan was convicted April 5 of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago and could face up to six years in prison.