Grim-faced Chinese guards protecting the Olympic torch have attracted further criticism ahead of the global relay's arrival in India, where bitter memories of war with its neighbour remain fresh. Phalanxes of Chinese security personnel are accompanying the flame's around-the-world journey to shield it from pro-Tibetan demonstrators.

A surge in job-seekers sailing to the Andamans for a slice of the post-tsunami aid pie could alter the archipelago's demography and further squeeze its indigenous peoples, experts warn. Environmentalists are also urging large relief agencies to pack up and leave the palm-fringed Andamans, arguing they are doing more harm than good to the islanders.

India is to push the US to extradite the American former boss of the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

Indian police arrested an anti-corruption hunger-striker and detained 1 400 of his supporters on Tuesday in a crackdown that provoked outrage in

Five men charged with the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi are due to appear in court for the first time.

Indian police arrested an anti-corruption hunger-striker and detained 1 400 of his supporters on Tuesday in a crackdown that provoked outrage in

Grim-faced Chinese guards protecting the Olympic torch have attracted further criticism ahead of the global relay's arrival in India, where bitter memories of war with its neighbour remain fresh. Phalanxes of Chinese security personnel are accompanying the flame's around-the-world journey to shield it from pro-Tibetan demonstrators.

A surge in job-seekers sailing to the Andamans for a slice of the post-tsunami aid pie could alter the archipelago's demography and further squeeze its indigenous peoples, experts warn. Environmentalists are also urging large relief agencies to pack up and leave the palm-fringed Andamans, arguing they are doing more harm than good to the islanders.