India

At least 103 people are dead and many more are missing after an overloaded ferry capsizes in the midst of a heavy storm on one of India's largest rivers.

President Asif Ali Zardari meets the Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi, as the nuclear-armed foes seek to thaw relations in the first visit by a Pakistani head of state in seven years.

Preventing world hunger could lift global GDP by 41 per cent, according to Save the Children. The charity tells Channel 4 News a worldwide campaign, similar to that launched against HIV, is needed.

India does not want it - and many in Britain think we should not give it. But would a decision to abandon bilateral aid be more political than pragmatic?

A man accused of shooting dead Indian student Anuj Bidve on Boxing Day gives his name as "Psycho Stapleton" when he appears in court charged with murder.

A toxic batch of bootleg liquor has killed at least 100 people and put scores more in hospital in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The Indian government says Dow Chemicals - a key London 2012 sponsor - is "tainted" because it now owns Union Carbide, the firm held responsible for the chemical disaster at Bophal, in India.

Opposition is growing to London 2012 sponsor Dow Chemical Country, owners of Union Carbide, the company responsible for the Bhopal gas leak in which thousands died.