India executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai today, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his plea for mercy.

A top ruling party politician in India has warned lawmakers not to bypass the country’s constitution as they seek to resolve an impasse with a high-profile hunger striker who has demanded that they pass an anti-corruption bill.

MINISTERS in Britain’s coalition government, criticised for being too close to Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit News Corp, face more scrutiny this week when details of their meetings with the company’s executives are published.

The head of the International Monetary Fund has said we should not underestimate the importance of Europe's debt crisis.

Manmohan Singh was sworn in as India's prime minister for the second time in New Delhi today.

SRI LANKA declared it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending his three-decade quest for an independent homeland for minority Tamils.

Sporadic violence marred the fourth phase of parliamentary elections in India today.

India’s home minister said Pakistan could become a failed state and raised doubts about who was in control of the nuclear-armed country, a news report said today.

India produced evidence today about the Mumbai attacks which it said conclusively tied the killers to “elements” in Pakistan.

INDIA said yesterday the FBI had presented strong evidence to Islamabad of Pakistani links to November’s militant attacks in Mumbai that killed 179 people.

The only surviving Mumbai massacre gunman has personally stated he is Pakistani in the face of efforts by Islamabad to distance itself from the terror attack.

India's foreign minister denied making a phone call to Pakistan's president at the height of the Mumbai attacks that led to Pakistan putting its air force on alert.

Pakistan understands it must take quick action against any terrorists connected to the Mumbai attacks that are living in the country, US Senator John McCain said today after meeting its leaders.

Airports in India were on high alert today following warnings of a new terrorist attack.

Mumbai police say an unexploded hand grenade has been found outside a hospital that was the scene of an attack during last week’s siege on the city.

Police found two bombs at Mumbai’s main train station nearly a week after they were left there by gunmen behind the attacks – in a stunning new example of the botched security that has become a major issue in India since the deadly three-day siege.

The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from Pakistan’s port of Karachi, a top police official said, as the US secretary of state headed today to India in Washington’s efforts to defuse tension between the two nuclear rivals.

INDIA received a warning from the United States before last week’s attacks in Mumbai that militants were plotting a waterborne assault on the city, a senior US official said yesterday as domestic intelligence officials said they were aware of a Pakistan-based plot.

India was warned of a terrorist attack by US intelligence officials before the Mumbai massacre, it emerged today.

India demanded that Islamabad hand over dozens of suspected terrorists believed to be living in Pakistan, including India’s most-wanted man.

Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel today, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India’s financial capital.

Indian forces today claimed they would soon have Mumbai under full control after nearly two days of chaos and confusion that followed the terrorist attacks there.

The terror attacks in Mumbai have killed at least 143 people, according to reports from the Indian capital.

“Elements in Pakistan” were behind the chain of deadly Mumbai attacks, India’s foreign minister said today.

The United States and India today signed an accord that allows American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India.

The Indian city of Jaipur was put under curfew today amid fears of retaliation against its Muslim minority after a series of bombs killed at least 80 people.

India’s foreign minister, who was seriously injured when a lorry slammed into his car in eastern India, is now stable, it was reported today.

Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, a long-time stalwart of the governing Congress Party, was seriously injured when a lorry slammed into his car, it was reported today.

India and China ended another round of talks today with no indication of progress made in resolving their decades-old border dispute that already has caused a war between the Asian giants.

Indian and Pakistani officials today held extensive talks on terrorism and Kashmir - the two key issues that have fuelled decades of hostility between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours.

India’s prime minister says his government has evidence proving Pakistan’s spy agency planned the Mumbai train bombings in July that killed more than 200 people.

India has turned down a US offer of assistance for the victims of the weekend’s earthquake, saying the country has enough resources, the Press Trust of India news agency reported today.

Britain plans to help New Delhi develop its civilian nuclear program, impressed by the easing of tensions between India and Pakistan, and the south Asian country’s “responsible” role in world affairs, said defence secretary John Reid.

The Indian Cabinet approved a €60m military spending plan today - after an announcement last week that rival Pakistan would buy sophisticated US fighter jets.

INDIA criticised the American government's decision to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan yesterday, saying the move could affect the dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad.

Paramedics today began vaccinating more than 65,000 refugees in the south of India as authorities rushed aid to survivors of the tsunami that killed at least 4,400 people in India and left 8,000 missing, many of them feared dead, officials said.

India today test-launched a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, a defence ministry spokesman said.