A packed ferry boat has capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote north-eastern India, leaving at least 35 people dead and 165 others feared missing.

Around 30 people are feared dead in north-east India after a footbridge spanning a river collapsed, police said.

The death toll from a train derailment in northern India rose to at least 60 today as more bodies were pulled out of the mangled coaches.

A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a large pond in India’s remote north east, killing at least 26 people, an official said today.

Suspected rebels sprayed bullets on a bus carrying Indian paramilitary soldiers in a remote forest area in the north-east, killing eight and wounding another 11 soldiers, police said today.

Suspected separatist rebels triggered a land mine explosion today that killed at least four paramilitary soldiers and injured 25 others in India’s remote north-eastern state of Assam, police said.

Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India’s restive north-east today, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.

Police in India today said that a powerful explosion has derailed a freight train, setting more than a dozen oil tanks on fire in the country's insurgency-wracked north east.

A 6.3-MAGNITUDE earthquake shook the remote mountain nation of Bhutan, killing at least seven people when their houses collapsed and damaging buildings across the region, officials said.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the remote mountain nation of Bhutan today, killing at least seven people when their houses collapsed and damaging buildings across the region, officials said.

Wild elephants demolished two thatched-roof huts, killing five villagers in a pre-dawn attack today in India's remote northeast, an official said.

TWO bombs ripped through crowded Indian markets yesterday in the troubled north-east state of Assam, killing at least seven people and wounding 60.

A bomb in a crowded market in India’s troubled north-east killed at least six people and wounded 26 today.

The death toll in the bombings in north-eastern India rose to at least 76 today as officials said local militants may have been helped by other terrorist groups to carry out the attacks.

Senior officials say 48 people are dead and more than 300 injured following 13 serial blasts that ripped through cities across India’s north-eastern state of Assam.

At least 13 blasts ripped through cities across India’s north-eastern state of Assam today, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, police and witnesses said.

An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in north-eastern India today, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others, police said.

Police shot at violent mobs in north-eastern India, killing 14 people and raising the death toll from three days of ethnic clashes to at least 30, officials said today. About 25,000 villagers have fled their homes, they said.

Suspected rebels triggered a bomb today in a shopping area in India’s insurgency-hit Assam state, killing one person and wounding 12 others, police said.

A bomb went off in a busy market in the main city of India’s restive north-east today, killing eight people and injuring 19, authorities said.

A bomb went off in a crowded market in Gauhati, the main city of India’s restive north-east today, killing seven people and injuring 18, an official said.

Suspected separatist rebels shot and killed 42 migrant workers and wounded 19 others in at least 10 separate attacks in India’s remote northeast, officials said.

Authorities in India’s remote north-east have given orders to hunt down and kill a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths that has been nicknamed Laden by fearful villagers, after the al-Qaida leader.

Shops and businesses shut down today to protest against two powerful blasts in India’s north-east which killed at least 14 people and wounded another 45.

Two blasts killed at least eight people and wounded 20 others in India’s remote north-east today, police said.

At least 25 people were killed and 45 injured when a packed passenger bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in India’s remote north-eastern state of Sikkim.

Five villagers accused of being witches were hacked to death by unidentified attackers in north-eastern India, officials said today.

A bomb exploded today in a crowded vegetable market in the Indian state of Assam, killing at least four people and leaving eight injured, police said.

A bus carrying wedding guests veered off a road and plunged into a lake today in north-eastern India, killing at least 47 people.

Police gunfire killed three college students today as they were protesting at the alleged sexual molestation of fellow students by police on a train in eastern India, student groups and officials said.

Police opened fire on stone-throwing students in two towns in north-eastern India today, killing 12 people, authorities said.

Torrential monsoon rains triggered mudslides in the capital of Assam state in north-eastern India today, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, police said.

Suspected separatist militants launched a series of co-ordinated bombings across India’s north-eastern state of Assam today, wounding at least 31 people, some of them critically.

Suspected rebels woke up sleeping villagers in north-eastern India and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing six of them and raising the death toll to 63 from three days of violence in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.

A string of bomb and gun attacks in north-eastern India continued for a second day today, as a blast at a crowded market wounded 15 people. Police have blamed the violence that has left 50 dead and more than 100 wounded on separatist rebels.

A passenger bus and another bus carrying paramilitary soldiers and their families were blown up in separate explosions in north-eastern India’s insurgency-wracked Assam state today, killing four people and wounding 39 others, officials said.

Rescuers pulled seven more bodies from a capsized boat in northeastern India, police said, as millions suffered across South Asia from floods that have killed more than 880 people.

An overflowing river spilled into an Indian city of half a million people today, and Indian and Nepalese helicopters rushed supplies to thousands of stranded people as the death toll across South Asia from monsoon flooding rose to 294.

A bomb blast in a crowded bus killed at least five people and critically wounded 17 today in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

At least 28 people were feared dead today after a cyclone swept through India’s remote north-east Assam state.

Torrential rains today caused more flooding in India’s remote northeast, affecting more than 50,000 people and cutting a key land route, officials said.

Separatist guerrillas have attacked a village in remote northeastern India, killing six and wounding five others.