Bangladesh and India on Tuesday welcomed an international court ruling  which established their new sea border, ending a decades-long dispute over the resource-rich area.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali hailed the ruling announced Tuesday by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague as a "victory and a win-win situation for both sides."

India's Bihar state has sacked 1,100 school teachers in the last five years for faking their own education qualifications, an official said Tuesday.

Bihar's government has launched an investigation into the eastern state's primary and secondary teachers to check the authenticity of their degrees, the official said.

A wall collapsed Sunday in southern India killing 11 people including a child, just a week after a building crumbled in the same state claiming 61 lives, officials said.

The compound wall collapsed onto the huts of laborers following heavy monsoon rains in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu state, a local government official said.

A group of 46 Indian nurses held "against their will" in a part of Iraq seized by Islamic militants returned home on Saturday to an emotional reunion with their families.

India has banned the import of foie gras, a government notice said, after animal rights activists complained that the method used to produce the duck liver delicacy was cruel.

"Import policy of the item 'foie gras'... is revised from 'free' to 'prohibited'," the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in the notice on its website.

Rescue efforts at a building which collapsed last weekend in southern India wound up Friday with the final death toll at 61, an official said.

The 11-storey apartment tower on the outskirts of Tamil Nadu's state capital Chennai, which was still under construction, came crashing down on Saturday following heavy rains, killing mainly laborers.

A group of 46 Indian nurses trapped in an area of Iraq seized by Islamic militants were set to fly home after being freed from the rebel-held city of Mosul, Indian officials said Friday.

"Ultimately, it is hope that has triumphed," Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman for the Indian foreign ministry, told reporters.

India's Narendra Modi pledged on Friday to "win the hearts" of the Kashmiri people as he faced a hostile reception during his first visit as prime minister to the tense Himalayan region.

As schools and shops closed in the main city of Srinagar to protest the visit, Modi opened a railway line elsewhere in the restive Muslim-majority state, promising increased infrastructure and development.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed his desire to boost ties with the United States Thursday during a meeting with Senator John McCain, a day after another snooping row sparked by Washington's National Security Agency.

Modi conveyed his wish to "further deepen and expand the strategic partnership" between the two countries during talks with McCain -- the first high-ranking U.S. politician to visit since India's change of government in May.

India summoned the top diplomat from the U.S. embassy Wednesday to complain for the third time about spying, following new allegations that Washington's National Security Agency targeted its ruling party.

"What we have said is that we expect a response and an assurance that this won't happen again," a foreign ministry source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.