India Hotel Collapse Kills At Least 10, Injures 12 Others (PHOTOS)

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HYDERABAD, India -- A two-story hotel collapsed in southern India early Monday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 18 others, police said.

More people were feared trapped in the debris of the City Light hotel in a suburb of the city of Hyderabad, police officer Anurag Sharma said.

Sharma said rescue operations were continuing at the hotel, which was about 80 years old.

The hotel was located in the Secunderabad suburb of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.

Few other details about the incident were available.

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India tests Nuclear-capable missile that can reach Beijing and much of Europe

By Jatindra Dash

BHUBANESWAR, India, September 12 (Reuters) - powered India to test successfully for a second time a missile with nuclear capability Sunday can reach Beijing and much of Europe, bringing production closer to the passage of a gun designed to strengthen its nuclear deterrent capability.

"The test was successful," said Ravi Kumar Gupta, spokesman for the investigation of defence and Development Organization (DRDO). "Hit the target in a predefined path. It met all the mission objectives"

A video distributed by the DRDO showed the Agni-V rocket taking off from a clearing on an island in the State of the East coast of the India's Orissa's forest.

The India is trying to keep the growing pace of China in military force and wants to have a viable deterrent against its larger nuclear neighbor.

The two countries have generally cordial relations, but they fought a brief war in the Himalayas in 1962 and an accumulation of conventional defenses along their disputed border is a source of tension.

The Agni-V is the most advanced version of the indigenous built Agni or fire, series, part of a program that began in the 1960's. Previous versions could reach old rival Pakistan and Western China.

Nuclear weapons Pakistan is increasing its stockpile of nuclear warheads and the development of the short-range nuclear weapons tactics, raising concern an arms escalation of South Asia, the International Institute for strategic studies, said Thursday.

The Think Tank said in a report that the race with Pakistan increased the risk of a nuclear exchange during a conventional conflict, perhaps caused by an act of terrorism.

The Agni-V missile was first tested in April 2012. It is built mostly in the country and has a range of 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles). Only the UN Security Council permanent members - China, France, Russia, United States and Great Britain - along with Israel, are believed to have such long-range weapons.

Gupta said that India was now ready to begin a process of production and subsequent induction of the missile. (Written by Anurag Kotoky in new DELHI; Edition of Frank Jack Daniel and Robert Birsel)

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India underwater explosion: three bodies discovered in damaged glass

NEW DELHI, Indian Navy divers on Friday recovered four badly burned bodies of sailors who had been trapped inside a submarine damaged by twin explosions, authorities said. The Navy said it was doubtful that any of the other 14 sailors on board survived.

Narendra Vispute naval spokesman told reporters that the condition of the bodies suggested that all of the 18 sailors aboard died in explosions at home port of Mumbai of the submarine. Three bodies were recovered on Friday morning and a fourth was found in the afternoon, a naval officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

"The bodies are badly disfigured and unidentifiable due to serious burns," said Vispute, adding that DNA tests would be used to identify the bodies. "However, the Navy continues to search every inch of the submarine until there are no bodies to find.

The 16-year-old diesel engine, Russian-made submarine, INS Sindhurakshak, was rocked by two explosions in the torpedo compartment that sent huge fireballs in the air. The ship was partially submerged at the naval dock in Mumbai, with a visible portion above the waterline.

Reach sailors trapped in the crippled, container full of water was made everything more difficult because the heat from the blast melted some closed doors of hatch. The Navy said that there has been contact from any of the sailors - or a blow to the helmet - since the accident.

A press release from the Navy Friday said that while divers have been working around the clock to get to the compartments of the submarine from the explosions occurred, search efforts were hampered by the "water oily and muddy inside the submarine submerged, resulting in total darkness and zero visibility within the submarine even with underwater lamps of high power".

Twisted metal restricted space inside and it resulted in the search and rescue "very slow and painstaking" efforts, allowing only a diver clear access at the same time, added the statement.

The same submarine was hit by an explosion in 2010 that killed a sailor and wounded two others. The Navy said that the accident was caused by a faulty valve battery that leaked hydrogen, causing an explosion in the compartment of the ship. There was no information on what caused the explosions this week.

The submarine recently returned from Russia after a 2 1/2 years, overhaul and update service and had been certified for use by the Indian Navy.

Russian arsenals Zvyozdochka said that the explosions were related to their repair work.

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India rape arrests: Police detain 3 suspects in violation of American woman (VIDEO)

In this photo taken on 07 may 2013 a India rape victim is reflected in a mirror in her house on the outskirts of Lucknow. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW DELHI--India police arrested three men Thursday on suspicion of violating a gang of an American woman in the northern resort of Manali City earlier this week, the latest sexual assault of high-profile in the country.

Vinod Dhawan police said that the men are accused of offer to the 30-year-old woman a lift in his truck while she was hitchhiking to his pension on Monday night. The woman said the men and then led to a secluded place and raped her.

Dhawan said three men, 22 and 24, 540 kilometers (335 miles) were arrested Thursday near Manali, North of New Delhi.

Police were interrogating the suspects. Other details were not immediately available.

Preoccupation with sexual assault in the India has increased since the gross violation of a woman in New Delhi in December sparked protests demanding better protection for women.

On Wednesday, police arrested a man accused of raping an Irish woman who volunteered in charity for children in the eastern city of Calcutta India.

The suspect, a local businessman, had attended a part of organized women to celebrate his 21st birthday, police said.

The woman told police that later went to the House of the man, where he drank a cup of tea, fainted and was then raped.

In March, six men were arrested in the rape of a Swiss cyclist.

Since the December attack, the Government passed a law increasing prison sentences for rape and doing voyeurism, I stalking, attacks the acid and trafficking punishable in criminal law.

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