Authorities in western India have arrested eight doctors for alleged medical malpractice after a hepatitis B outbreak killed at least 36 people, officials said.

The Indian temple stampede which killed at least 168 people and injured 100 was caused by a false rumour of a bomb, it emerged.

Today’s powerful earthquake in southern Asia killed at least 250 people across Indian Kashmir, a senior state official said in the Himalayan region.

A woman who is seven-months pregnant has told how she walked 77 floors down from the World Trade Centre.