Militants opened fire near the home of the top elected official in India-controlled Kashmir and detonated two explosions today, killing two paramilitary soldiers.

Hundreds of Hindu nationalists marched silently through Bombay today in mourning for the victims of Monday’s terrorist car bombs.

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.

INDIA yesterday rejected a US request for peacekeeping troops in Iraq, saying it would consider sending soldiers only under a United Nations mandate.

India today rejected a US request for peacekeeping troops in Iraq, saying it would consider sending soldiers only under a United Nations mandate.

India’s deputy prime minister was today visiting grief-stricken families of 24 Hindus massacred by suspected Islamic militants in a remote village in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

THREE men were yesterday sentenced to hang for helping the suicide attackers who stormed India’s parliament a year ago, almost triggering a war with nuclear rival Pakistan.

At least 23 people dead in Hindu temple attack in western India, the deputy prime minister said.

Hundreds of soldiers were tramping through dense tropical forests in southern India today, hunting an elusive bandit who kidnapped a former state minister.

PAKISTAN-BASED Muslim militants were blamed for an ambush on Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir that left at least nine dead and 27 injured yesterday.

Despite expectations, both India’s houses of Parliament adjourned today without Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee commenting on Saturday’s attack by suspected Islamic militants that killed 28 civilians in India-controlled Kashmir.

INDIA yesterday turned its anger on Pakistan and Islamic militants, blaming them for the massacre of 27 Hindu civilians in a slum in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Indian troops were today hunting suspected Islamic guerrillas who killed at least 27 Hindu civilians when they attacked a crowded slum in Jammu-Kashmir state.

India’s prime minister held talks with senior Cabinet ministers and military officials in disputed Kashmir today, as shelling between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan pounded villages on both sides of the border.

A rare joint session of India’s Parliament, the third since independence, today passed an anti-terrorism bill that the opposition said will curtail civil rights.

A Pakistani man today confessed to attacking the US cultural centre in Calcutta, as he was dying after a shoot-out with Indian police, the Indian government said.

Five people are dead and 20 injured after a drive-by shooting at the American Centre in Calcutta.

India put its army on high alert today as it decided how to respond to the terrorist attack on parliament, which it blames on Islamic militant groups backed by Pakistan.

Thousands of police were patrolling the northern Indian town of Ayodhya today to prevent violence on the ninth anniversary of the demolition of a 16th century mosque.

India has claimed that the al-Qaida terrorist network has been operating in Kashmir for years.