Multiple small bomb blasts hit the historic Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex in eastern India on Sunday, wounding two monks, police said, but the temple itself was not damaged.

Buddhists from all over the world visit the site in Bihar state, which is believed to house the tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment in 531 BC.

The Chinese and Indian defense chiefs agreed Saturday to strengthen "peace and tranquility" along their frontier, state media reported, as the countries work to keep tensions in a disputed border area in check.

"The ministers emphasized the importance of enhancing mutual trust and understanding between the two militaries," General Chang Wanquan of China and A.K. Antony of India said in a joint statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency.

A two-storey building housing apartments and garment makers has collapsed near Mumbai, killing one person, police said Thursday -- the fifth deadly collapse around the Indian financial capital in the past few months.

Rescue teams rushed to the scene late Wednesday in Bhiwandi city in western Maharashtra state, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) northeast of Mumbai.

Abu Dhabi has promised to invest $50 billion in India's cash-hungry infrastructure at a time when growth in Asia's third-largest economy has sharply slowed, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

The pledge by Abu Dhabi was the key factor in pushing New Delhi to approve a bilateral deal to increase flights between the two countries, an Indian official told the Indian Express.

India said Tuesday that it had refused an asylum request from fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, joining Poland in publicly rebuffing him as he seeks an exit from a Moscow airport.

"Our embassy in Moscow did receive a communication dated 30 June from Mr. Edward Snowden. That communication did contain a request for asylum," foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told Agence France Presse.

A group of more than 50 Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in eastern India on Tuesday, killing the district police chief and four others, officials said.

The rebels opened fire on vehicles carrying police Superintendent Amarjeet Balihar in the Dumka district of Jharkhand, an impoverished and densely forested state home to a large Maoist movement.

Indian Kashmir largely shut down on Monday and hundreds of police were deployed in the troubled region's main city after the weekend shooting of two civilians by the army, a police chief said.

The shutdown to protest against the shootings came as a police officer and a militant were killed in a separate incident south of the main city Srinagar, said Kashmir's police chief Abdul Gani Mir.

India will Monday launch the first stage of its domestic satellite navigation network which will eventually provide services both to civilians and the military and is similar to the U.S. Global Positioning System, officials said.

The first of seven satellites will be carried into space as part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), just months after China inaugurated its own domestic satellite navigation system.

Some 3,000 tourists and pilgrims remain missing in India's flood-ravaged north two weeks after the tragedy, but it is unclear how many of those have been killed, a top state official said Sunday.

About 1,000 people are confirmed dead after flash floods and landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains hit the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on June 15, officials have said.

Indian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in restive Kashmir on Sunday, killing one person during protests over the shooting of a teenager in a military operation, a police chief said.

Soldiers shot dead a 17-year-old man late Saturday during a military operation to hunt for suspected militants in Markondal village, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) north of the main city of Srinagar, the chief said.