A man was beheaded and his girlfriend beaten to death in an “honour killing” in northern India after they eloped, police said.

At least 47 people were killed when a fire engulfed a carriage on a moving train in southern India today, officials said.

A two-year-old boy trapped for nearly 90 hours down a 150ft deep well in northern India died before army rescuers could reach him, a doctor said today.

An overcrowded boat capsized in the Ganges River in northern India, leaving at least 20 people dead and 60 missing, a government official said today.

School authorities in a northern Indian state have banned exchanges of cards or flowers for Valentine’s Day, trying to prevent what a top administrator called an invasion of “foreign culture”.