SRINAGAR, India - A seven-day-old curfew was briefly lifted in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Saturday, prompting panic buying by residents to stock up on food.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan announced on Saturday a suspension of military operations against Islamist militants for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, but a senior official said security forces would respond if attacked.
KOLKATA, India - Indian tycoon Krishna Kumar Birla, whose family empire spanned industries from sugar to newspapers, died Saturday at the age of 90, an aide said.
MUMBAI - Conditions are still not favourable to resume work at a plant in eastern India which will make the Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, Tata Motors TAMO.BO said in a statement on Saturday.
PATNA, India - Indian authorities, hampered by heavy rain and damaged roads, were struggling on Saturday to get aid to millions of displaced villagers in the eastern state of Bihar, hit by the worst flooding in 50 years.
KABUL - The young son of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui will be returned to his family "soon" by Afghanistan after he was arrested with her more than a month ago, Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta said Saturday.
VENICE - A new film set in Indian Kashmir seeks to go beyond stereotypes of the troubled region as either the idyllic backdrop to Bollywood movies or the subject of news reports and documentaries into the violence.
KABUL - A suicide car bomb exploded near international troops in the Afghan capital on Saturday, leaving one wounded, while soldiers killed more than a dozen militants in clashes elsewhere, authorities said.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least five people were killed when a missile fired from Afghanistan hit a suspected hideout Saturday in Pakistan's South Waziristan, a known hub of Al-Qaeda, an official told AFP.
