A series of co-ordinated explosions ripped through courts in three north Indian cities today killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more.

In a likely suicide attack, unidentified militants blew up a security fence today and stormed a northern Indian Hindu shrine at the heart of a bitter sectarian dispute, setting off a fierce gunbattle with security personnel that left five other attackers dead.

Muslims in Bombay feared reprisals today after the worst terror attack in the city for a decade killed 46 people and wounded 150.

Hindus and Muslims alike mourned today for victims of the worst terrorist attack in a decade in India’s financial heart of Bombay, as the death toll from the twin car bombings rose to 46, with 150 people injured.

At least 25 people were killed and 150 wounded today when four explosions rocked India’s financial capital Bombay, a state official said.

At least 25 people are now feared dead in the bomb blasts at Mumbai in India.

Authorities in New Delhi tightened security in the Indian capital after intelligence agencies warned of a possible terrorist attack during the weekend, officials said today.

Police in India have arrested more than 18,500 Hindu nationalists in an effort to stop them defying a Supreme Court ban on a contentious religious ceremony.

India's parliament has adjourned in uproar as the deadline approaches for the building of a controversial temple that threatens to cause more sectarian bloodshed.

India’s Supreme Court today ruled against Hindu nationalist demands to hold a symbolic prayer ceremony near the site of a razed 16th century mosque.

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 30 people have died after a crowd of angry Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists in western India today.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s party lost elections in four key states, according to near final results released today, in a potentially destabilising blow to his two-year-old national coalition.

Thousands of police were patrolling the northern Indian town of Ayodhya today to prevent violence on the ninth anniversary of the demolition of a 16th century mosque.