At least 39 people were killed when a crowded passenger bus fell into a deep gorge in northern India, police said.

An Indian man has reportedly served 18 months of his brother-in-law's life sentence for murder.

A New Delhi labourer survived getting hit by a bus, only to get hit and killed by a second bus 20 minutes later, police said.

A co-ordinated series of explosions struck crowded shopping areas across the Indian capital today, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 61, officials said.

Distraught fans smashed cars, burned buses and battled with police today in the streets of Bangalore, angry they had been unable to view the body of south Indian film icon Raj Kumar.