Britain and the United States appealed to Indian and Pakistan today to work together in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

Indian commandos killed the last three gunmen at the landmark Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai this evening after suspected Muslim militants stormed targets across the city.

Indian special forces raided two luxury hotels tonight trying to free hostages taken by terrorists who massacred more than 100 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is to set up a crisis centre in Mumbai for Irish citizens caught up in the violence there.

The identity of the terrorists behind the Mumbai atrocities remained a mystery today, but experts agreed they appeared to combine local grievances and international inspiration.

A crisis centre for Irish citizens has been set up in the Indian city of Mumbai today after more than 100 people were killed in a series of terrorist attacks.

Fighting continued today in the middle of Mumbai as chaos and confusion surrounded terrorist attacks that killed more than 100 people.

Indian troops said they had cleared Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel of terrorists and begun to remove bodies and hostage from the building.

Twelve students and three teachers from Colaiste Choilm in Tullamore, Offaly are understood to be safe in the north of Mumbai.

The death toll from the Mumbai terror attacks topped 100 today, with parts of the city still under siege.

Suspected Hindu hard-liners set an orphanage run by Christian missionaries on fire in eastern India on today, killing one nun and seriously injuring a priest, police said.

A previously unknown Islamic militant group claimed today to have carried out deadly bombings in the historic Indian city of Jaipur by planting bicycles packed with explosives on the city’s crowded streets, police said.

Suspected communist rebels have assassinated a prominent politician as he watched a soccer game being played in eastern India.

Suspected insurgents ambushed a government vehicle and shot three paramilitary soldiers dead, along with one Election Commission official and their civilian driver in India’s troubled north east today, police said.

Suspected separatist rebels shot and killed 42 migrant workers and wounded 19 others in at least 10 separate attacks in India’s remote northeast, officials said.

A bomb exploded during an Independence Day parade in India’s remote northeast today, killing at least 15 people, mostly children, just an hour after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to fight terrorism.

At least 19 soldiers were killed and five injured today when rebels ambushed them in remote northeastern Tripura state, police said.

Indian troops killed eight suspected Islamic militants in an overnight gun battle after they infiltrated into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistani territory, an army spokesman said today.

The Indian army killed three suspected Islamic militants today after they crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan, an army spokesman said. It was the first such incident since Islamabad promised to end such incursions last month.

US President George W Bush has announced plans to send his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to India and Pakistan in an effort to reduce tensions between the two bitter enemies.

Hopes for peace were signalled alongside threats of war by both India and Pakistan, as the nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged deadly shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing at least six people.

One person is reported dead and five Hindu hard-liners were injured today after police fired on a crowd of activists trying to stage a religious ceremony in eastern India as part of a campaign to build a temple on a holy site claimed by Hindus and Muslims.

Gunmen have killed three Muslim men and a woman in a border village in Kashmir in an attack Indian police have blamed on separatist Islamic militants.

Officials in India have said at least 538 people are now known to have died in a week of Hindu-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat.

Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat were today still too frightened to leave their homes or return to those they fled, fearing more attacks from Hindus after five days of mob violence.

Government officials have confirmed that Gujarat is returning to normal after four days of riots that left 485 people dead.

G.M.C. Balayogi, the speaker of the Indian Parliament’s lower house, was killed today in a helicopter crash in southern India where he had attended a peace rally. He was 50.

Armed attackers have forced villagers to huddle together then set fire to their homes in India, killing at least 30 people.

At least 246 people are now known to have died in two days of rioting by Hindu nationalists in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

A Hindu mob has burned 27 Muslims to death as they slept in an Indian shanty town this morning in the latest incident in a wave of sectarian violence currently gripping the west of the country.

The Indian government has ordered its army into the western town of Ahmedabad after 20 people were killed during sectarian riots and a strike called by Hindu nationalists.

At least 30 people have died after a crowd of angry Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists in western India today.

Indian authorities have charged six people with murder in connection with a gun attack which left four policemen dead in Calcutta yesterday.

Armed gunmen who stormed the Indian Parliament in New Delhi today are reported to have been planning to detonate a huge car bomb at the site.

At least 13 people died today when gunmen stormed the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

There has been a gun battle outside the Indian Parliament.