Indian police on Wednesday accused the Pakistani army of killing a soldier and injuring seven other people during firing along their international border.

Police said the "unprovoked" firing lasted for several hours at an Indian post at R S Pura sector along the recognized border dividing the nuclear-armed rivals, police inspector general Rajesh Kumar told Agence France Presse.

A Mumbai court convicted two teenage boys Tuesday over separate gang-rapes that shocked the city in a verdict that came days after an Indian minister said juvenile suspects should be treated as adults in rape cases.

Two 17-year-olds were found guilty -- one over the gang-rape of a photographer and another over the gang-rape of a telephone operator in the same abandoned mill compound in the city last year, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told Agence France Presse.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on the need to resolve a decades-old border dispute during talks before the BRICS summit in Brazil, a statement said Tuesday. 

The leaders also pledged to strengthen trade and diplomatic ties during the 80-minute meeting in Fortaleza, their first since nationalist hardliner Modi won landslide elections in May.

India's top court Monday suspended the death sentences of two men convicted of the deadly gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, an attack that triggered international outrage.

The Supreme Court temporarily stayed the sentences passed on gym instructor Vinay Sharma and bus cleaner Akshay Singh for the 2012 attack while their appeals were examined, a lawyer said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accepted an invite to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington in September, a statement said, as the two countries look to rebuild strained relations.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns formally invited Modi during a meeting between the pair in New Delhi on Friday, as part of a two-day visit to India to strengthen diplomatic and trade ties.

Indian engineers are toiling in the Himalayas to build the world's highest railway bridge which is expected to be 35 meters taller than the Eiffel Tower when completed by 2016.

The arch-shaped steel structure is being constructed over the Chenab River to link sections of the spectacular mountainous region of India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state.

A valet at a five-star hotel in the Indian capital caused $335,000 worth of damage to a Lamborghini Gallardo after crashing it into a concrete wall in front of horrified guests, a report said Thursday.

A photograph of the aftermath at Le Meridien hotel, published in the Times of India newspaper, showed the severely crumpled front end of the sleek white supercar with its hood forced up. 

Police have ordered a fresh autopsy on the bodies of two teenage cousins who were found hanging from a tree in northern India after being gang-raped, one of the victim's brothers said Wednesday.

The brutal rape and killing of the girls, aged 14 and 15, in an impoverished village in Uttar Pradesh state in May, sparked public outrage after the family complained of police apathy towards them because they were from a lower caste.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tightened his grip on the reins of power Wednesday after the appointment of his most trusted aide, Amit Shah, as president of the ruling Hindu nationalist party.

Shah, who has known Modi since the 1980s in their home state of Gujarat, is seen as a shrewd political organizer and tactician credited with delivering Modi's huge election victory in May.

India unveiled plans Tuesday to open up its cash-hungry railways to foreign investment and introduce the first bullet train in a budget closely watched for clues about the new government's economic priorities.

The rail budget is seen by economists as setting the stage for the general budget -- due Thursday -- in which the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lay out keenly awaited reforms to repair public finances.