Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still probably weeks away.

At least 15 people heading to a wedding were killed when a minibus they were travelling in collided with another bus in southern India.

Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, across the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Photos show the full force of India’s searing heatwave, with road surfaces melting in the country’s capital.

Eating onions, lying in the shade and crowding into rivers, Indians are doing whatever they can to stay cool amid a brutal heatwave that has killed more than 1,400 in the past month.

Soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,100 people dead over the past month, officials said.

Soaring summer temperatures in India have left more than 1,100 people dead over the past month, officials said.

Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heatwave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Indian authorities were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and headed toward the country’s east coast.

A fire engulfed two coaches of an express train in southern India today, killing at least 26 passengers, officials said.

A train has struck and killed eight people in southern India.

Mass evacuations have spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials have said.

An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage.

The strongest cyclone to threaten India in more than a decade is approaching its east coast as authorities drove tens of thousands of villagers from their coastal homes to government shelters inland.

At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a two-storey hotel collapsed in southern India, an official said today.

Heavy rains triggered by a tropical storm have killed at least 22 people in the past four days in southern India, according to a government official.

A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

Thousands of people have moved to higher ground and schools and colleges have closed as a cyclone roared in the Bay of Bengal toward coastal areas, authorities in southern India have said.

At least 47 people were killed when a fire engulfed a carriage on a moving train in southern India today, officials said.

CRH is understood to have held exploratory talks with one of India’s largest cement producers over the possible acquisition of four cement plants.

At least 14 children drowned when their school bus veered off the road into a pond in India.

EVERY now and then, a story emerges that seems so tragic and outrageous that the fact it comes from the other side of the world does nothing to dilute its impact.

India’s Parliament opened its winter session today and then quickly adjourned amid renewed protests by politicians angry about everything from corruption to soaring inflation.

Shops and businesses were shut and public transport halted as a two-day strike demanding the creation of a new state in southern India paralyzed the region.

SATHYA SAI BABA, one of India’s most famous gurus, died in hospital yesterday, triggering a global outpouring of grief and tributes from devotees across politics, sport and entertainment.

A ROCKET carrying an Indian communication satellite exploded just after liftoff on Saturday in the second launch failure for India’s space agency this year.

Authorities in southern India put military forces on alert today as a tropical storm approaches a coastal region already pummelled by several days of heavy rains that have left 22 people dead and displaced 30,000.

Two teenage students were accidentally shot dead during a police weapons demonstration in India.

Trains and planes were halted across India today by strikes in protest at fuel price rises.

A bridegroom and 17 guests were killed when a speeding lorry rammed their wedding procession in India today.

A southern Indian state has declared a cyclone alert today and evacuated thousands of people as the region braces for its worst storm in 14 years.

An Indian navy plane crashed into a building during air show aerobatics today killing both the pilot and navigator.

Protesters set buses on fire and clashed with police over India's decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh.

MEDICAL teams rushed yesterday to flood-devastated southern India where five days of torrential rain have left at least 205 people dead and 750,000 displaced, authorities said.

Medical teams rushed today to flood-devastated southern India where five days of torrential rain have left at least 205 people dead and 750,000 displaced, authorities said.

A top Indian politician and four other people were killed when their helicopter crashed in the jungles of southern India, it was reported today.

The second phase of parliamentary elections in India ended relatively peacefully today in all but the rebel-affected state of Jharkhand.

Maoist rebels launched a series of attacks today as the second phase of parliamentary elections began in India.

THE first day of polling in India’s general election was disrupted by Maoist violence that left at least 17 people dead.

TENS of thousands of troops and police fanned out across parts of India as polling stations opened yesterday in the world’s biggest democratic exercise.

The first day of polling in India’s general election was disrupted by Maoist-led violence that left at least 17 people dead.

At least seven people were killed as Maoist rebels launched an attack today in a bid to disrupt the general election in the world's largest democracy.

Tens of thousands of troops and police fanned out across parts of India today as polling stations opened in the world's biggest democratic exercise.

Rioters in southern India killed six members of a Muslim family by setting fire to their home after earlier clashes between Hindus and Muslims left four others dead and 15 injured in the same village, officials said today.

Forty villagers travelling on a truck have been swept away by flood waters and are feared dead in southern India, according to local police reports.

At least 32 people died when several coaches of a train caught fire in southern India today.

Suspected communist rebels attacked a village festival in eastern India with gunfire and bombs today, killing at least 17 people, a news report said.

Torrential rains and thunder storms have killed at least 58 people in southern India and flooded dozens of villages, officials said today.