A Japanese woman has accused an Indian tourist guide of drugging and then raping her in the historic city of Jaipur, police said Monday, the latest in a series of sex attacks on foreigners.

The 20-year-old said the guide offered to show her around Jaipur, famous for its grand palaces and forts, on Sunday before assaulting her on the outskirts of the "Pink City" in the evening.

A Japanese woman has told Indian police she was raped by a tourist guide in the historic northern city of Jaipur, in the latest sex attack on a foreigner, an officer said Monday.

The 20-year-old told police the guide offered to show her around Jaipur on his motorbike on Sunday before attacking her in an isolated part of the city in the evening, the officer said.  

India and Pakistan have suspended trade across their de facto border in the disputed territory of Kashmir after Indian authorities detained a truck driver accused of drug trafficking, Pakistan officials said Sunday.

Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two countries won independence from Britain in 1947. Both claim the scenic Himalayan territory in full.

Voters went to the polls in India's capital Saturday, with firebrand former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal looking to complete a surprise comeback and deliver the first major blow to Narendra Modi's premiership.

Less than a year on from his resignation as head of Delhi's state government after just 49 days, most polls say Kejriwal's anti-corruption party is set to push Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into second place when results are announced Tuesday.

Police in southern India were Friday searching for a man suspected of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl, in the latest shocking sex attack in the country. 

Superintendent B. Ramesh said they are hunting a man in his early 20s, captured on CCTV, who is thought to have bitten the child's genitalia before smothering her to death. 

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to France in April for what would be the one-time pariah's first trip to Europe since his election, his office said Thursday.

Modi is "looking forward to his visit to France in April," his office said in a statement, confirming an invitation from France's top diplomat.

Indian Catholic priests Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of failing to protect religious minorities as some 200 Christian protesters clashed with police in the capital.

Police pulled demonstrators -- including several nuns and priests -- onto buses after they gathered outside one of New Delhi's largest cathedrals to demand action over a series of recent attacks on churches.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has forced one of its most senior officials to resign after reports said he had interfered in a police probe into a Ponzi scheme.

The government said late Wednesday it had accepted the resignation of home secretary Anil Goswami with "immediate effect" without giving reasons for the sudden departure.

New President Maithripala Sirisena vowed Wednesday to end Sri Lanka's pariah status by working with the U.N. and promised national reconciliation, six years after the island's ethnic war ended.

In an address to the nation to mark Sri Lanka's 67th anniversary of independence, Sirisena and his ministers also pledged never again to allow the "land to be traumatized by the shedding of blood of innocents".

Indian authorities have released nine people who had been deported from Turkey after allegedly trying to enter an area of Syria controlled by the Islamic State militant group, police said Monday.

Police in the southern city of Bangalore said the nine Indians were released late Sunday, after they admitted during questioning that they had planned to cross over to territory controlled by IS but denied being members of the organization, which is banned in India.