U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid for the first time since a major row over the arrest in New York of an Indian diplomat.

Meeting on the sidelines of an international peace conference on Syria, the two men "discussed their shared commitment to moving the relationship forward and returning to close partnerships on strategic, security and economic issues," a State Department official said.

A terror suspect feared to have been plotting to carry out a Mumbai-style attack in London will be freed from stringent controls on his movement by the end of the month, court papers showed Tuesday.

The British-Nigerian is one of around six suspects whose restrictions will be lifted in a move that is being challenged by the main opposition Labor party.

The wife of Indian minister Shahshi Tharoor, found dead in a luxury hotel after accusing her husband of being unfaithful, appeared to have died of drug overdose, news agency Press Trust of India said Monday.

Tharoor, 57, the junior human resources development minister, found his wife Sunanda Pushkar dead on Friday in her five-star hotel room in New Delhi after he returned from a Congress party meeting.

Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife was found dead in a luxury hotel room, called Sunday for a swift inquiry so the truth "can come out as soon as possible," an official said.

Tharoor wrote to the home minister on Sunday saying "he was horrified to read the reckless speculation" about his wife's death, which came after she exposed his alleged adultery with a Pakistani journalist on Twitter.

A stampede killed at least 18 people in India's financial hub Mumbai as a large crowd gathered to pay their last respects to a Muslim spiritual leader, police said.

More than 40 were also injured in the chaos that erupted shortly after midnight local time when the gates were shut to the residence of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who died aged 102 Friday.

The wife of prominent Indian minister Shashi Tharoor was found dead Friday in a five-star hotel room in New Delhi after she exposed his alleged adultery with a Pakistani journalist on Twitter.

The body was discovered by human resources minister Shashi Tharoor after he returned from a party meeting on Thursday, his private secretary Abhinav Kumar said.

- Bangladesh police arrested three journalists from a pro-opposition newspaper for publishing a "false" story claiming Indian forces had helped to contain recent election violence, an officer said Friday.

The news editor, deputy chief reporter and diplomatic correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Inqilab were arrested late Thursday after police filed a case against the publication.

Indian police rounded up a group of homeless men Wednesday over the alleged gang-rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist who lost her way near the main backpacker's area of the capital, officers said.

The woman approached the suspects for directions early on Tuesday evening while trying to return to her hotel in the bustling Paharganj district of New Delhi, reportedly after visiting a city museum.

Fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden worked briefly at the U.S. embassy in India almost three years before revealing the scale of his country's surveillance programs, according to a report Monday.

The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor arrived in New Delhi in September 2010 "to assist as a technical expert" at the US embassy, according to Foreign Policy magazine.

Managers of an IT company in New Delhi were puzzled as they sifted through a pile of CVs -- as many as 30 job seekers claimed to have worked previously for the same employer.

Unwilling to take any chances, the managers approached a firm of professional sleuths who specialize in screening background information given by prospective employees.