New Delhi, Oct 7 (TIWN) In its latest India Travel Advisory, the United States has asked its citizens to "exercise increased caution in India due to crime and terrorism".

In a new travel advisory issued on Friday, the US State Department reduced the India Travel Advisory Level to 2 on a scale of one to 4 with the latter being the highest.

The State Department in a separate advisory, a day earlier, had put Pakistan on Level 3 and asked its citizens to reconsider their travel especially its restive provinces due to terrorism and sectarian violence.