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 Devastating floods have left much of the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir under water, as residents are evacuated or retreat to their rooftops.

 Dozens of people have been killed in flooding caused by incessant rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan.

The newly-elected Indian Government continues to regard Vietnam as a pillar in its Look East policy, said Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in talks with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh yesterday.

 Kazakhstani FM Yerlan Idrisov and Indian FM Sushma Swaraj will pay official visits to Viet Nam from August 24-25 and August 25-26, respectively.

 Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj’s August 25-26 visit to Hanoi will give fresh impetus to our bilateral relations, said Vietnamese Ambassador to India Nguyen Thanh Tan.

 At least 160 people are reported to have been killed in floods and landslides following days of torrential rain in Nepal and northern India.

 A train crash in the Indian state of Bihar on Monday left 21 dead and two injured, officials say.

 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has held bilateral meetings with the Foreign Ministers of Myanmar, the US and India on the sidelines of the on-going 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-47) in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. |

 Hopes of finding any more survivors from a landslide that buried a village in western India on Wednesday are fading, as the number of bodies found reaches 66, officials said.

 The rescue operation at an 11-storey building that collapsed in the Indian city of Chennai has been called off, with the final death toll put at 61.

 The death toll in a building collapse in the Indian city of Chennai has passed 40 as rescue workers continue to find more bodies in the wreckage.

 More than 100 people are still feared trapped after a building collapsed in southern India, an official has said.

For last six decades or more, India and Viet Nam have unhindered bilateral relation. So also, last week's Chinese bulling attitude in East Sea where India lost no time to convey its discontent of former's irresponsible act.

 A police officer and two other people have been arrested after two teenage girls were gang-raped and left hanging from the branches of a mango tree in a northern Indian village, authorities said Friday.

 At least 20 people are feared dead after a passenger train derailed and hit a stationary goods train in India's Uttar Pradesh state, officials say.

 NA committee discusses 2012 budget, casino business; Vietnam, Germany promote legislation relations; Vietnam-India strategic partnership develops well; Vietnam, Russia discuss extending partnership areas

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 Police in India's West Bengal have held 13 people in connection with a gang rape of a woman allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man.

 Police in the Indian capital Delhi have arrested two people in connection with the gang rape of a Danish woman.