(Outlook) A large number of women activists and students today marched towards Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest against the gang-rape of a young girl in a moving bus and demand stringent action against rapists.

(Global Voices) The Union Women and Child Development Ministry in India is considering a draft bill which, if passed by parliament, would make it legally compulsory for husbands to pay out a portion of their monthly income to their homemaker wives, for doing household chores.

(BBC) The arrest of an anti-corruption cartoonist in India on charges of sedition has sparked off criticism.

(BBC) A massive power cut has caused disruption across northern India, including in the capital, Delhi. It hit a swathe of the country affecting more than 300 million people in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan states. It is unclear why the supply collapsed but reports say some states may have been using more power than authorised.

(BBC) Campaigners in India are keeping up the pressure for Indian athletes to boycott the London 2012 Olympic games - in opposition to Dow Chemical being one of the Olympic sponsors.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A speeding passenger train rammed into another waiting near a northern Indian station early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and trapping several others inside mangled compartments, officials said.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Pakistan's government has begun rallying support both at home and abroad as tension flared with old rival India after a bloody militant assault on the Indian city of Mumbai.

NEW DELHI (IHT) India's government on Thursday hailed U.S. congressional approval of a civilian nuclear pact between the two nations, calling it a "monumental achievement," and an official said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would visit New Delhi soon to sign the accord.

(VOA) The U.S. Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a landmark agreement that would end a 34-year ban on U.S. civilian nuclear trade with India. If approved by the Senate, the pact, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday, would go to President Bush for his signature. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill.

NEW DELHI (Channel News Asia) Five people were killed and 80 others injured in two suspected bomb attacks on Monday in areas of western India wrecked by Hindu-Muslim tensions, Indian media reported.

(Rediff News) The Bush administration, through a gag order on its written responses to Congressional questions, had sought to keep the Indian public in the dark on the larger implications of the nuclear deal, lest the accord run into rougher weather. But now its 26 pages of written answers have been publicly released by a senior United States Congressman.

(Guardian) Relief supplies in Bihar are going to the highest castes first, ignoring plight of the most desperate, according to reports.