Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India today aboard a special flight, officials said.

Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said.

India’s exterior affairs minister is monitoring Ireland’s response to the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar — as her heartbroken husband warned the “whole Indian community” will react if actions are “inadequate”.

The parents of an Indian woman who suffered a miscarriage and died after being refused an abortion in an Irish hospital hit out at Ireland’s abortion laws today.