Four people were killed in eastern India on Wednesday when a goods train collided with a Delhi-bound passenger express, police said.

One passenger carriage was thrown off the track in the state of Jharkhand in the crash, which occurred around dawn in foggy conditions.

NATO warships have freed Iranian and Indian vessels held by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa, rescuing five Iranian, nine Pakistani and 20 Indian crew members, NATO said Monday.

The NATO operation came days after the U.S. navy saved 13 Iranian fishermen who were held hostage by pirates for weeks in the Arabian Sea, a rescue welcomed by Tehran amid heightened tensions with Washington.

A leopard that wandered into a city in eastern India went on a rampage, killing one man, swiping off part of another man's scalp and injuring three other people before authorities tranquilized the animal.

Neighbors in Gauhati said the big cat attacked a 50-year-old lawyer as he talked on his cell phone Sunday evening outside his house. He was rushed to hospital where he died.

Developed for troops serving on glaciers high in the Himalayas, the non-flushing "bio-digester" toilet made by India's top defense research body is now being offered to companies and poorer states.

It is one of 200 technologies produced by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) identified as for sale via the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

It's late in the evening and the Indian capital's moneyed art crowd is spilling out of congested galleries into a narrow maze of streets, sipping glasses of wine as they peer at catalogues.

Lado Sarai, a warren of bylanes and haphazardly constructed buildings in New Delhi's hinterland, has become a thriving new art district where Mercedes and BMWs jostle with bullock carts for space to pass.

At least 34 people died when a cyclone hit southern India, officials said on Saturday as engineers rushed to restore power supplies knocked out by winds of up to 140 kilometers (85 miles) an hour.

Cyclone Thane lashed the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu state and the territory of Pondicherry on Friday, leaving in its wake a trail of destruction, officials from the affected regions said.

A severe cyclone packing winds of up to 140 kilometers (85 miles) an hour tore into India's southeastern coast on Friday, killing at least 16 people, a senior official said.

Cyclone Thane lashed the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu state and the territory of Pondicherry early on Friday, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

An official says a group of paramilitary soldiers have opened fire on each other inside a camp in Indian Kashmir, killing three soldiers.

Paramilitary spokesman Mohsen Shahedi said Sunday that officials were investigating the cause of the altercation inside the paramilitary camp in Kulgam, a town in the disputed Himalayan region.

India's telecom operators on Saturday won a reprieve from a government order that they end "illegal" mutual roaming agreements to provide seamless nationwide 3G services, a report said.

The country's telecom tribunal called for a stay on the order until a hearing on January 3, amid an ongoing battle pitting Delhi against the nation's biggest mobile operators.

India's telecom ministry told mobile phone operators on Thursday that they must scrap "illegal" mutual roaming agreements allowing them to provide seamless nationwide 3G services.

The pacts that let the operators offer 3G services outside their licensed zones are "in violation of terms and conditions of their licenses," the top bureaucrat in the telecom ministry said.