Fifteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in a series of explosions in the western Indian city of Ahmadabad, government ministers said tonight.

A NEWBORN baby girl survived after falling through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks after her mother prematurely gave birth while relieving herself.

A newborn baby girl survived after falling through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks after her mother prematurely gave birth.

Eight people were killed and 12 injured today when a four-storey building collapsed in India.

A petrol tanker, lorry and bus collided today in western India, sparking a blaze that engulfed all three vehicles and killed at least 30 people, an official said.

A special anti-terrorism court today sentenced three men to death after finding them guilty of involvement in a 2002 terror attack on a Hindu shrine in western India that killed 33 people, a news report said.

A bus collided with a truck on a road in western India today and burst into flames, killing at least 30 people.

Two stationmasters and an engineer face criminal charges today after a head-on train crash that killed at least 37 people in northern India was blamed on a communications blunder.

Two passenger trains collided head-on in northern India today, killing at least 31 people and injuring 50.

FOUR suspected Islamic militants who police said belonged to a suicide squad were shot and killed yesterday in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Four suspected Islamic militants who police said belonged to a suicide squad were shot and killed today in the western Indian state of Gujarat, top police officials said.

The ruling party won a sweeping victory today in state elections in western India – a landslide that could boost Hindu supremacists in national politics and challenge the nation’s secular traditions.

A MUSLIM was stabbed

INDIA deployed thousands of troops to prevent an eruption of Hindu-Muslim rioting yesterday after gunmen attacked a major Hindu temple complex in a raid that left 32 people dead, most of them worshippers.

Gunmen stormed a crowded Hindu temple and opened fire, killing at least 23 worshippers today in a western Indian state where hundreds of people were killed in religious rioting this year.

At least two people were killed and eight others injured when Indian police opened fire to disperse rioting mobs in Gujarat state.

A Muslim bus driver was dragged out of his bus and burned alive and a Hindu was killed in a bomb blast as violence resumed in India’s Gujarat state where nearly 1,000 people have died in two months of ethnic clashes.

Three bomb blasts in the western Indian state where Hindu-Muslim violence has claimed nearly 1,000 lives injured at least 36 people today, police and hospital officials said.

Nine people have been killed in India’s western Gujarat state as sectarian violence between rival Hindus and Muslims continues to spiral out of control.

At least 16 people were killed overnight as Hindus and Muslims attacked each other with stones, petrol bombs and acid in India’s western state of Gujarat.

A fresh wave of clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat has left 17 dead in mob attacks and police shootings, officials said today.

Indian police say at least eight people are dead and 20 are injured after Hindu-Muslim clashes in western Gujarat.

Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in remote parts of western Gujarat state as sectarian violence that killed 708 people continued to boil in Indian villages that were not previously affected.

Muslims in India’s western state of Gujarat were today still too frightened to leave their homes or return to those they fled, fearing more attacks from Hindus after five days of mob violence.

Government officials have confirmed that Gujarat is returning to normal after four days of riots that left 485 people dead.

Thousands of Indian army soldiers tried to control Hindu mobs in the western city of Ahamadabad today as the death toll in the country’s worst religious violence in a decade approached 300.

At least 246 people are now known to have died in two days of rioting by Hindu nationalists in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

The European Commission will provide 1.7 billion rupees (€40.7m) to improve health services in the earthquake-hit western Indian state of Gujarat, an official said today.

Passengers on board a plane that was reportedly hijacked from Bombay to New Delhi say the pilot had announced the episode was a security drill.