Tibet’s Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, fears China may have plotted to kill him by training female agents with poison in their hair and on their clothing.

AT LEAST 33 people have been killed after an open truck carrying a wedding party rolled into a gorge in India’s mountainous north.

At least 33 people have been killed after an open truck carrying a wedding party rolled into a gorge in India’s mountainous north.

A truck crowded with people returning from a party swerved off a mountain road into a gorge in northern India, killing 38 people and injuring 37 others, police said today.

Voting for the fifth and final phase of parliamentary elections in India began today.

Anxious relatives have spent the night searching through rows of bodies for family members after 145 people were killed in a stampede at a remote Hindu temple in India.

Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded today at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more.

At least 68 pilgrims, including 30 children, have been killed in a stampede at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, according to police.

One of the Indian men who allegedly beat a British tourist to death said the mob killed the foreigner because he had chased a woman through a village, an Indian newspaper reported today.

Police in western India have arrested four people in connection with the killing of a British tourist, an officer investigating the case said today.

A rain-swollen river collapsed a bridge in northern India today, washing away 30 soldiers who were working on the span, an official said.

Authorities asked air force helicopters to help evacuate nearly 300 passengers stranded in a train on flooded rail tracks in western Gujarat state where heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people this week, a news report said today.

TWO Irishmen arrested following the death of a young English backpacker in India last year remain in the country despite being cleared of all charges relating to her death.

Indian troops were on alert today amid fears that a lake created by landslides in the Chinese Himalayas could burst, triggering cross-border floods and threatening thousands of people.

THE elderly father of an Irishman arrested following the suspicious death of a young English backpacker in India said all charges have been dropped against his son.

AT least 100 people were feared dead yesterday after flash floods struck a remote mountainous area of northern India.

At least 100 people were feared dead today after flash floods struck a remote mountainous area of northern India.

An Irish man today died along with three other people when a helicopter crashed on its way to a northern Indian ski resort, police said.

A truck crowded with members of India’s ruling political party plunged from a mountain road into a gorge today, killing 17 people and injuring 25 others.

A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in northern India plunged into a river, killing 36 people, according to reports today.

THEY don’t want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but Indian authorities are getting very annoyed about advertisement graffiti plastered all over the Himalayas.

In India, 15 people were killed when a bus carrying wedding guests veered off a mountain road in heavy rain today and plunged 700 feet into a gorge.

Authorities have closed down schools and put paramedics on alert in the northern Himalayan foothills after three people died from what doctors say may be pneumonic plague.