Formal charges have been brought against 28 people for suspected involvement in the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed more than 200 people in western India.

A Indian police investigator today said that authorities had apprehended “the main brain” behind the train bombings that ripped through Mumbai’s commuter rail network in July, killing 207 people.

India will give Islamabad evidence that Pakistan’s spy agency planned the deadly July 11 Mumbai train bombings, India’s top diplomat said today.

INDIA will give Islamabad evidence that Pakistan’s spy agency planned the Mumbai train bombings in July which killed more than 200 people, India’s foreign secretary said yesterday.

An Islamic charity in Pakistan today denied providing funds to suspects in a plot to bomb several US-bound passenger jets from Britain, saying it had no links with the alleged conspirators.

Police have arrested two more men in connection with Mumbai’s deadly train blasts.

A top militant commander blamed for 25 attacks and tourist killings has been arrested in India’s portion of Kashmir, in a major setback for the separatist rebels, police said today.

A little-known Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for Mumbai’s train bombings warned of more attacks today, as investigators questioned Muslim preachers in India’s remote north-east about the blasts.

Investigators questioned a group of Islamic preachers today in India’s remote north-east, searching for clues to last week’s deadly bombings on Mumbai’s commuter rail network.

Investigators said today they expected a breakthrough soon over the Mumbai train bombings, which officials have linked to Pakistan.

The bombers who targeted Mumbai’s rail system had support from inside Pakistan, India’s prime minister said, warning that the nuclear-armed rivals’ peace process could be derailed unless Islamabad reined in terrorists.

The bombers who targeted Mumbai’s rail system had support from inside neighbouring Pakistan, India’s prime minister said today, warning that the nuclear-armed rivals’ peace process could be derailed unless Islamabad reins in terrorists operating from its territory.

Indian authorities today named a third suspect in this week’s Mumbai train bombings, as the local media said the well-co-ordinated attacks that killed 200 people were planned by Pakistan’s main intelligence agency. Pakistan has denied the charge.

THE Indian authorities yesterday detained 350 people for questioning amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the Mumbai commuter train bombings.

Indian police have rounded up about 350 people in connection with the Mumbai train bombings amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.

A special anti-terrorism court today sentenced three men to death after finding them guilty of involvement in a 2002 terror attack on a Hindu shrine in western India that killed 33 people, a news report said.

Indian police have detained four men for questioning about bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, a top state official said today.

Indian investigators believe one of Kashmir’s most notorious Islamic militant groups planted bombs that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism’s holiest city, police said today.

Indian police have arrested an alleged Kashmiri militant whom they believe planned the October 29 triple bombings in New Delhi and are now hunting for seven others including the bombers, an official said in New Delhi today.

Indian investigators have made their first breakthrough in the investigation into the October 29 New Delhi bombings, linking the attacks to Kashmiri rebel groups, intelligence officials said today.

A CALLER yesterday claimed that a little-known Islamic group in the Kashmir insurgency was behind terror bombings that killed at least 59 people at two crowded markets on Saturday in India’s capital.

Investigators detained more than 150 people during raids on dozens of small hotels across the Indian capital today as they hunted for suspects in three terrorist bombings that killed at least 61 people in two crowded markets, according to reports.

Pakistani intelligence agents believe one of the London suicide bombers visited a religious school run by an al Qaida-linked terror group, two senior officials said today.

Authorities in Pakistan are looking into a connection between one of the London suicide bombers and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups there, including a man arrested for a 2002 attack on a church near the US Embassy, two senior intelligence officials said today.

Four suspected Islamic militants who police said belonged to a suicide squad were shot and killed today in the western Indian state of Gujarat, top police officials said.

Government forces today killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of India’s most senior elected official in Kashmir, ending a 24-hour stand-off, police said.

Police on a routine patrol of New Delhi’s busy main railway station today found an abandoned bag packed with a large quantity of explosives, a police spokesman said.

INDIA yesterday blamed Islamic militant groups for twin car bombings in Mumbai which killed 50 people and left 154 wounded in the worst terrorist attack in a decade in the country's financial heart.

India today blamed Islamic militant groups for twin car bombings in Bombay which killed 50 people and left 154 wounded in the worst terrorist attack in a decade in the country’s financial heart.

Muslims in Bombay feared reprisals today after the worst terror attack in the city for a decade killed 46 people and wounded 150.

At least 44 people were killed today and 150 wounded when car bombs exploded at a crowded jewellery market and a historic landmark in Bombay.

A land mine exploded today, killing nine people and injuring 24 others in Indian-administered Kashmir while separate rebel violence left five others dead, police said.

Police in the Indian capital New Delhi were on high alert today as millions of people celebrated an ancient Hindu festival under the shadow of renewed terrorist violence.

India and Pakistan resumed shelling along their tense border today, killing three people hours after Pakistan said its jets shot down an unmanned Indian spy plane, officials said.

US envoy Richard Armitage said today that Pakistan’s president had assured him that he wants to do everything he can to avoid war with India.

Dozens of suspected members of outlawed Islamic militant groups have been arrested following the bomb attack on a bus in Pakistan.

Indian security forces say at least 19 people, including a teenage girl, have been killed in a day of separatist violence in Kashmir.

Islamic groups in Pakistan are vowing to defy a government crackdown on their activities.

Downing Street has applauded Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's condemnation of terrorist groups in his country.

President Pervez Musharraf says he will not permit terrorism on Pakistani territory and announced a crackdown on Islamic extremism.

Pakistan’s security forces have arrested a further 42 suspected Islamic militants as part of a terrorist crackdown designed to prevent another war with India.

Pakistani militants have denied threatening to bomb the Taj Mahal.

The Indian Prime Minister says war with Pakistan can be avoided if the nuclear-armed rivals can solve their differences through diplomacy.

Hopes that another war between India and Pakistan can be averted rose today, with increasing signs that the country’s leaders will meet at an Asian summit in Nepal this week.