Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said India would take all necessary steps to safeguard its nuclear facilities as the country tightened security in the wake of fresh fears over possible attacks.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks on a stalled trans-national gas pipeline and a possible Indian prime ministerial visit to Iran, officials said.

Watchtowers and close-circuit televisions will help secure the Taj Mahal, one of the world's most visited monuments, as the busy tourist season begins in India, a senior police officer said.

A speeding train derailed in western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80. Fifteen cars of the New Delhi-bound train flew off the tracks and rolled onto their sides when the driver suddenly applied the brakes because of poor visibility in the region, said Vipin Kumar Pande, superintendent of police.

India's eunuchs and transsexuals hailed their victory Friday in a long-standing campaign to be listed as “others,” distinct from males and females, on electoral rolls and voter identity cards.

India's chief climate negotiator Shyam Saran played down Friday the chances of sealing a new UN treaty on global warming at next month's crunch climate conference in Copenhagen.

Hundreds of poor Hindu villagers in eastern India have refused to hand over a rare turtle to authorities, saying it is an incarnation of God, officials said on Tuesday.

Cyclone Phyan roared toward India's western coast Wednesday as authorities sounded an alert and shut schools and offices in anticipation of its blustery arrival.

A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 42 people, an official said Tuesday.

Indonesia and the European Union signed Monday a joint partnership agreement aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the regional bloc and Southeast Asia's largest economy.