Indian police on Monday accused Pakistan of injuring four people during firing along their border in Kashmir, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the disputed region.

Police said overnight firing lasting several hours in the RS Pura sector on the recognized border injured two Indian border guards and two civilians.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday that India and United States should not let "bureaucratic red tape" thwart the momentum of defense partnerships between two of the world's largest democracies.

Hagel wrapped up his three-day New Delhi visit after meeting with his Indian counterpart Arjun Jaitley and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday in an effort to push military trade with India's new right-wing government.

Fourteen Maoist insurgents were killed Saturday in a pre-dawn gun battle between two rebel groups in eastern India, police said.

It was the latest clash between factions of the ultra-leftist group.

Pakistani officials on Friday released an Indian border guard arrested for allegedly violating their de-facto border in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, officials said.

The guard, whom officials named as Satyasheel Yadav, was swept onto the Pakistani side of the River Chenab after a patrol boat he was in capsized on Wednesday, according to a senior official from the paramilitary rangers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met India's prime minister in Delhi on Friday, seeking to boost weapons sales to a new government eager to modernize its military.

India is the world's biggest arms importer and military trade is high on the agenda for the three-day trip, which comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first official visit to Washington next month.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held talks Friday with India's new foreign minister at the start of a three-day visit to New Delhi aimed at boosting military trade and cooperation with the world's biggest arms importer.

Pakistani security forces have arrested an Indian border guard for allegedly violating their de-facto border in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, officials said Thursday.

"An Indian national has been arrested who crossed into Pakistani territory," a senior official from the paramilitary rangers told AFP without elaborating on the circumstances of the arrest or the exact location.

India's coast guard was searching Monday for seven fishermen whose trawlers capsized in the Bay of Bengal, but 600 others who had been missing were safe, an official said.

The seven fishermen were on board two trawlers which sank in a storm overnight on Sunday off the coast of West Bengal in eastern India, the head of the Fishermen's Welfare Association said.

Rescue workers Sunday discovered more bodies in the mud and debris of a devastating landslide in western India, taking the confirmed death toll to 92, an official said.

With dozens more villagers still missing, rescue workers kept up their grim search for victims of the landslide which destroyed a remote village in Maharashtra state on July 30.

Energy will be high on the agenda when India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Nepal on Sunday, eager to claw back lost ground in the race for resources with China.

A vast network of fast-flowing rivers through the Himalayas leaves huge untapped hydro-power resources at Nepal's disposal, and New Delhi has spent years encouraging Indian investment with an eye on the country's water resources.