Torrential rain in India has caused a five-storey apartment building to collapse in Mumbai, killing 19 people and possibly burying more than a dozen others, police said.

Mumbai has declared 16 areas no-selfie zones, following an increase in deaths linked to the photo craze.

Twelve people have died after a building on the outskirts of Mumbai collapsed following days of heavy rain.

A man who was convicted of helping to raise funds for the 1993 Mumbai bombings, which killed 257 people, has been hanged.

The death toll from drinking tainted alcohol in a Mumbai slum climbed to 84 in the worst incident of its kind in more than a decade, police said today.

Three men were sentenced to death for two gang-rapes last year in Mumbai, including an attack on a photojournalist that sparked protests in the city and raised fresh questions about attitudes to women in the world’s largest democracy.