AN INDIAN reform activist, whose protest galvanised the nation’s anger against corruption, ended his 12-day hunger strike after forcing Parliament to throw its weight behind his crusade.

New Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, India’s first non-Hindu top leader, paid homage today to former prime ministers before announcing a new cabinet delayed by political wrangling within his new ruling coalition.

One passenger died and 23 people were injured today when a bomb exploded on a bus heading for a Hindu pilgrimage site in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police and hospital sources said.

Mother Teresa, the Yugoslav-born Catholic nun who spent her life caring for the poor in the slums of Calcutta, has been voted the greatest Indian in a magazine poll.