Indian political parties held street parades today ahead of a crucial election in Gujarat state, where sectarian riots killed more than 1,000 people earlier this year.

India’s deputy prime minister today blamed Pakistan for a massacre at a Hindu temple that killed 33 people.

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

Authorities clearing mountains of rubble in western India have recovered 400 decomposed bodies and a heap of gold coins from the debris of homes destroyed by the nation’s worst earthquake in 50 years.