Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote north east India, an official said.

At least 40 people were killed when a truck overturned and fell into a roadside pond in northern India today, police said.

At least 31 people have been killed and 100 others were injured after a packed express train derailed in northern India.

ARTS and Culture Minister Jimmy Deenihan got a public but polite rebuke yesterday from Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara when he broached her age at a function she attended in Co Limerick.

Doctors in northern India today issued a warning to avoid eating dairy-based sweets ahead of a major Hindu festival.

A man shot himself in a failed suicide attempt near the Indian prime minister’s residence today, prompting a brief scare in a heavily guarded part of New Delhi.

WHEN dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighbourhood dogs.

A Pakistani man stole an unattended train engine from a southern station, driving it more than 20 miles and dangerously close to a passenger train on the same line before being arrested.

Two powerful land mines exploded in a crowded residential area in the Indian portion of Kashmir today, killing six people and wounding 40 others, a paramilitary officer said.

INDIA, which has the world’s second largest population, has recorded its first confirmed case of the deadly SARS virus, officials from the National Institute of Virology confirmed yesterday.