Investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder of the Air India flight which crashed and killed 158 people in southern India over the weekend, police said today.

India’s civil aviation minister said today that human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend.

Investigators frantically sifted through the rubble of a crashed plane today looking for the black boxes – the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – after India’s worst air crash in more than a decade killed 158 people.

Police in India have arrested a young couple for allegedly killing seven family members by poisoning and strangling them for objecting to a same-clan marriage.

A bus overtaking another vehicle at high speed as they crossed a bridge in eastern India crashed through the railings and fell nearly 30 feet onto a railroad track today, leaving at least six people dead, a news report said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has declared victory in India’s national elections, saying voters have given the Congress party-led coalition a “massive mandate”.

The governing Congress party will win India’s month-long elections and form the next government, media reports said today.

Senior officials say 48 people are dead and more than 300 injured following 13 serial blasts that ripped through cities across India’s north-eastern state of Assam.

AN obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronised explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of “the terror of Death” in an email sent to several television stations minutes before the blasts.

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.

A baby girl in India who fell into a 45-foot well has been rescued after spending 27 hours in the pit.

At least six people were killed and 30 others injured when a bomb ripped through a packed cinema in northern India, authorities said.

The chairman of India’s Tata Group has confirmed his company’s interest in acquiring the Jaguar and Land Rover units of Ford.

Teachers in a village school in western India sprinkled cow urine on several low-caste students to purify them, a news report said today.

Families in India and Israel today mourned two professors among the 32 people killed in a shooting rampage at an American university, while the leader of Australia slammed US gun culture.

Airports across India were on a high alert today following a hijack threat by Kashmiri separatist militants, news reports said.

Hollywood star George Clooney says he would love to act in one of the spectacular song-and-dance movies produced by Bollywood, India’s prolific Hindi film industry, a television channel reported today.

AIRPORTS across India were put on high alert yesterday after a warning that a plane flying to Europe or the US could be hijacked, officials said.

Airports across India were put on high alert today after a warning that a plane flying to Europe or the US could be hijacked, officials said.

Eight bombs tore through packed commuter trains in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) today, killing at least 147 and wounding hundreds more in what authorities called a co-ordinated terrorist strike at the heart of a city embodying India’s global ambitions.

Seven explosions rocked Mumbai’s commuter rail network during today’s evening rush hour, killing at least 105 people and injuring 300, officials said.

Suspected Islamic insurgents hurled a grenade at minibus carrying Indian tourists in India’s part of Kashmir today, killing five people.

Explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple today in Varanasi, Hinduism’s holiest city, and at least 12 people were killed and dozens injured, officials said.