THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Explosive material was found in a package on a passenger plane after it landed in southern India, but it was not attached to a detonator and could not have exploded, officials said on Sunday. The package, which was the size of a cricket ball and wrapped in a local newspaper, was found in a bag inside the ...

India successfully tested on Sunday a new "manoeuvrable" version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile it developed with Russia, a report said. The missile was fired from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal off India's east coast, BrahMos aerospace chief A. Sivathanu Pillai told the Press Trust of India news agency. "The missile... manoeuvred, successfully hitting the ...

A London-based environmental campaigner traveling the world in a biofuel-driven bus has been has been ordered to pay a fine for illegally using a satellite phone and is now free to leave India two months after his arrest, his lawyer said Sunday. Andy Pag was ordered ...

Police in India's southern tourist resort state of Kerala said on Sunday they had recovered explosives from an airliner. The explosives, made in India, were discovered as airport personnel were offloading luggage from a Kingfisher Airlines flight that had arrived at Kerala's main Thiruvananthapuram airport from Bangalore. "The explosive was found wrapped in a newspaper," senior Kerala police ...