Some 330 million people in 256 districts are affected by severe drought in India, the government tells the Supreme Court.

Thirteen students drown while swimming off a beach on India's west coast, police say. The group is among more than 100 from a college in Pune who went for a picnic to Murud beach near Alibag, Maharashtra state.

A meeting between India and Pakistan's cricket board chiefs in Mumbai has been cancelled after a protest by far-right Hindu nationalists.