SLUMDOG Millionaire child star Rubina Ali says her home and the awards she won for the Oscar-winning film had been destroyed in a fire that raged through a congested Mumbai slum.

'Slumdog Millionaire' child actor Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail finally moved into a new permanent home along with his family today.

CHILDREN broke into Bollywood dance numbers and crowds cheered in the lanes of a teeming slum as their hometown heroes nabbed Hollywood’s highest honours.

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.