A helicopter caught fire on touch-down in India's remote northeastern mountainous region Tuesday, killing 17 people, authorities said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's state visit to New Delhi on Wednesday, aimed at strengthening bilateral ties, follows decades of turbulent relations between the two Asian giants:
An Indian Air Force helicopter crashed Friday in a mountainous region bordering Tibet, killing all 12 people on board, authorities in New Delhi said.
Linguists announced Monday they have identified an endangered language known as Koro that is spoken by about 800 people in northeast India.
The Dalai Lama on Sunday visited a region of India close to Tibet which China claims as its own, his spokesman said.
India protested China's reported insistence on continuing projects in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, barely a day after both New Delhi and Beijing were in a tense row over a border region along Tibet.
An effort to find a missing Indian Air Force plane that disappeared with at least 14 people onboard will resume Wednesday, said Air Force spokesman Wing Cmdr. P. Sahu.
The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
The third phase of India's national elections got under way Wednesday in seven states, mostly in the country's north.
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