Reuters - Police probing bombings in Jaipur that killed 63 people said on Friday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards Indian Islamists backed by a Bangladeshi militant group as being behind the blasts.

Reuters - India's annual inflation rate headed towards 8 percent in early May, clocking a 3-1/2-year high, but analysts said it was unlikely to provoke more monetary tightening for now as economic growth appeared to be slowing.

Reuters - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.

Reuters - Torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on Friday as thousands of destitute victims took to roadsides to beg for help to supplement the meagre trickle of aid flowing in.

Reuters - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius can try to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after winning his appeal against a ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the South African's lawyer said on Friday.

Reuters - Global trade talks will not have much chance of success if they fail to deliver on a development promise and get converted into a market access round for rich nations, Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath said on Friday.

Reuters - Residents of Indian Kashmir, the country's only state with a Muslim majority, are drinking more and more alcohol, excise officials said, after years of intimidation by Islamist militants.

Reuters - Driver Narain Karthikeyan said on Friday that he will stay with the A1 Grand Prix series next year but had not given up on a Formula One comeback.

Reuters - Research in Motion has said it expects to resolve in a month Indian security concerns about its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, India's telecoms minister said on Friday.