An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Kathmandu evacuated passengers using a slide chute Saturday after its rear wheel caught fire while landing in the Nepalese capital, the carrier, India's largest airline, said.

"After parking, the ground engineer observed smoke and fire from the right brake assembly... All 175 passengers, one infant and six crew members are safe," said a statement, adding an investigation was underway.

India, the world's largest democracy, announced Wednesday it would stage a five-week election from April 7, a contest expected to bring Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi to power on a platform of economic revival.

The head of the election commission said voting would be held in nine phases until May 12 and counting would begin four days later on May 16.

Suspected militants killed two police outside a court in Indian Kashmir on Monday, hours after another officer was stabbed in a separate incident in the restive region, police said.

"Two policemen died in the shooting by militants on a truck outside the court complex," police superintendent Tejinder Singh told Agence France Presse.

A former Indian army chief who resigned from the military following a controversy over his age Saturday announced he had joined the Hindu nationalist opposition ahead of looming elections.

India's massive armed forces normally stay out of politics, but retired General V.K. Singh had been tipped to enter the arena since resigning as the head of the army in May 2012 after being accused of fudging his birth date to extend his service term.

Maoist rebels opened fire and triggered landmines in India's restive Chhattisgarh state Friday, killing six policemen in the latest in a string of deadly attacks on security forces.

The insurgents attacked the policemen as they were on a combing operation near Shyamgiri jungle in Dantewada district, about 263 kilometers (164 miles) from state capital Raipur.

Two Indian naval officers who went missing after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai have been found dead, the defense ministry said Thursday.

Wednesay's incident on board the Russian-built INS Sindhuratna, the latest in a string of naval mishaps, also left seven crew members injured and led the chief of naval staff to resign.

A soldier in Indian Kashmir shot dead five of his colleagues in a military camp on Thursday before turning the gun on himself, an army spokesman said.

The counter-insurgency soldier was on duty in the early hours when he started firing on his colleagues in the camp in Safapora village, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the region's main city of Srinagar.

Two sailors were missing and another seven were injured after smoke filled a submarine off Mumbai on Wednesday, Indian defense officials said, in the latest accident to hit the navy.

The seven sailors suffered breathing problems after trying to contain the smoke which filled the living quarters of the INS Sindhuratna during a training exercise, the navy said in a statement.

Hundreds of angry villagers clashed with police in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday following suspicions that security forces shot dead seven civilians they mistook for rebels, a police officer and a witness said.

The villagers torched a police station in the forested Kupwara region near the de facto border with Pakistan to demand security forces hand over the bodies for identification and for burial, the officer said.

Indian security forces killed seven suspected militants on Monday in a gunbattle in restive Kashmir near the de factor border with Pakistan, an Indian army spokesman said.

The seven were killed after heavy firing broke out between military forces and rebels at Dardpora, a remote village 140 kilometers (80 miles) northwest of the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar, army spokesman Nitin Narhar Joshi told Agence France Presse.