At least 48 people have been killed as large swaths of western India have been lashed by heavy monsoon rains and flooding.

More than 24,000 villagers have been evacuated to higher ground, officials said.

Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still probably weeks away.

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also killed some of the world’s last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also hurt the world's last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

Thousands of cheering supporters have welcomed India’s next prime minister on his arrival in the capital after leading his party to a staggering victory in national elections.

Narendra Modi thundered to victory in India’s election, trouncing the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform.

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The owner of a clothing shop called “Hitler” in India has agreed to rename it after complaints.

Two Indian air force helicopters have collided and crashed in the country’s west, killing all eight airmen aboard.

CRH has said it has several investment and acquisition deals in the pipeline, but has declined to say if its overall spend for 2012 will eclipse last year’s €600m outlay.

CRH has confirmed it has entered into discussions with India’s Jaypee Cement Corp regarding the purchase of an equity stake in the business in Gujarat province.

The ISEQ Index dropped 31.37 points yesterday to close at 3,177.53.

TWO young lionesses can be seen at the new ‘Asian Forests’ facility in Dublin Zoo.

A young couple have been shot dead in Pakistan in a suspected honour killing.

IRISH feeding technology company Keenan has signed a five-year deal to supply its patented animal feed and mixer wagons to India’s oldest dairy business, Keventer.

Eleven Muslims have been sentenced to death for starting a train fire that killed 60 Hindu nationalists and triggered one of India’s worst outbursts of religious violence.

AN Indian court ruled a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.

IT’S believed the lion that roars at the start of Metro Goldwyn Meyer films was born in Dublin Zoo.

Trains and planes were halted across India today by strikes in protest at fuel price rises.

Katie Price has ordered a “full report” into allegations of low wages paid to Indian workers making bottles for her perfume.

A man suspected of belonging to banned Pakistani-based terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba has been arrested carrying explosives at New Delhi railway station.

AN Indian court yesterday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting high-explosive bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003.

A week after poisoned illegal drink killed 150 people, a state government in India wants to bring in capital punishment for suppliers involved in any future cases.

At least 69 people, mostly poor workers living in slums, have died after drinking tainted home-brewed alcohol in western India.

POISONED illegal drink in the Indian state of Gujarat has killed more than 40 people and left many more seriously ill.

An Indian prince disowned by his family for being homosexual has returned to the country from Brazil after inaugurating this year’s annual Gay Pride Parade.

Election history was made in India when officials set up a polling station to collect just one vote.

The world’s cheapest car made its official debut today with makers Tata hoping for massive sales.

Excitement was growing in India today for the launch of the world’s cheapest car.

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 bodies of another 22 victims were removed from the Taj Mahal Hotel today as survivors of the Mumbai massacre spoke of their terrifying experiences.

Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel today, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India’s financial capital.

Rioters in southern India killed six members of a Muslim family by setting fire to their home after earlier clashes between Hindus and Muslims left four others dead and 15 injured in the same village, officials said today.

A co-ordinated series of explosions struck crowded shopping areas across the Indian capital today, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 61, officials said.

AN obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronised explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of “the terror of Death” in an email sent to several television stations minutes before the blasts.

At least 29 people were killed and 88 wounded when a series of small explosions hit the western Indian city of Ahmadabad today, a top official said, a day after seven similar blasts struck another city in the south.

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.

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At least 42 people, most of them schoolchildren, were killed when a bus plunged into a canal in western India, reports said today.

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.

Sixteen people, including two children, were crushed to death under a train in western India.

India's Hindu nationalists scored a resounding victory today in a closely watched state election that was widely seen as a crucial test amid persistent talk of early national elections.