During a religious procession in Hyderabad, India, on March 30, two people were killed when a riot broke out between Hindu and Muslim youths after a Hindu group replaced Muslim street flags with Hindu ones. Police used tear gas and arrested 110 people. In debates around a movement to make the Andra Pradesh area a separate state, the city has experienced months of unrest.

India announced that 104 mountain peaks in the Ladakh region will be opened this summer to foreign climbers and trekkers for the first time. Mostly in the Eastern Karakoram range, they measure 3,000 to 7,800 meters in height.

Violence between rebels and Indian troops was common in the Ladakh region, a heavily militarized area that includes Kashmir, which has been in contention between India and Pakistan for years. However, since 2004 when peace talks began between the two nations,...

Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for the March 29 suicide bombings of the Moscow subway system. Thirty-eight people were killed and more than 90 injured when the stations at Lubyanka and Park Kultury were hit during morning rush hour.

The mainly Muslim, economically poor North Caucasus republics in Russia, including Chechnya, have seen a rise in militant violence lately.