Eight bombs tore through packed commuter trains in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) today, killing at least 147 and wounding hundreds more in what authorities called a co-ordinated terrorist strike at the heart of a city embodying India’s global ambitions.

Seven explosions rocked Mumbai’s commuter rail network during today’s evening rush hour, killing at least 105 people and injuring 300, officials said.

Explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple today in Varanasi, Hinduism’s holiest city, and at least 12 people were killed and dozens injured, officials said.

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of India’s Parliament in New Delhi today, but the all-clear was sounded after police using bomb-sniffing dogs failed to find any explosives.

A little-known group that police say has ties to Pakistan-based militants fighting in divided Kashmir took credit for three blasts that killed 59 people in New Delhi, but Indian officials appeared hesitant to immediately blame anyone on the Pakistani side of the frontier.

Police in India have launched a major man hunt after this weekend's bombings in New Delhi in which at least 57 people died.

A CALLER yesterday claimed that a little-known Islamic group in the Kashmir insurgency was behind terror bombings that killed at least 59 people at two crowded markets on Saturday in India’s capital.

At least 49 people were feared dead after a series of explosions shook New Delhi today.

Rescuers saved all 354 passengers who were trapped for days in a train that had slowly filled with flood water to neck height, officials said today as raging monsoons coninued to submerge vast swathes of Indian countryside.

RESCUE workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India yesterday as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country’s south would rise further.

MASSIVE tidal waves triggered by an Indonesian earthquake slammed into southern India yesterday, killing more than 2,000 people and sweeping away boats, homes and vehicles, officials said.