Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, across the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India today aboard a special flight, officials said.

A train has struck and killed eight people in southern India.

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a two-storey hotel collapsed in southern India, an official said today.

Twelve people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in southern India.

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Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore, and other cities yesterday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam.

Factories and workshops across India are up and running again, a day after a major system collapse led to a second day of power outages and the worst blackout in history.

At least 47 people were killed when a fire engulfed a carriage on a moving train in southern India today, officials said.

A bus carrying dozens of Hindu pilgrims home from a shrine plunged off a bridge in central India and killed 32 passengers.

At least 14 children drowned when their school bus veered off the road into a pond in India.

Shops and businesses were shut and public transport halted as a two-day strike demanding the creation of a new state in southern India paralyzed the region.

A Pakistani Christian, jailed for blasphemy, has died in prison and his lawyer said he suspected the man was murdered.

Seven prisoners were killed in clashes which erupted following a search by authorities for mobile phones in a Pakistan jail, prison officials said today.

PAKISTAN battled yesterday to save areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge.

The devastating Pakistan floods are unlikely to recede fully for almost a fortnight, the country's top forecaster said today.

A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to be more, the UN said today.

A case of the deadly, waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect it is not isolated, the UN said today.

At least 14 people have died after an explosion in Pakistan's southern city of Hyderabad.

An Indian navy plane crashed into a building during air show aerobatics today killing both the pilot and navigator.

Five young American men under investigation in Pakistan for alleged terror links had established contact with a Taliban recruiter and have told FBI officials they were on a mission to be martyred, a Pakistani police official said.

Protesters set buses on fire and clashed with police over India's decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh.

India has increased its security after Israel and Australia issued warnings to their citizens to avoid visiting its cities.

England have withdrawn from the World Badminton Championships in the Indian city of Hyderabad because of “a specific terrorist threat” against the championships.

Two men accused of planning terror strikes ahead of India's Independence Day celebrations on August 15 have been arrested in New Delhi.

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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.

MPs began casting votes today in Pakistan’s presidential election in which the favourite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-US widower of murdered ex-PM Benazir Bhutto.

At least 32 people died when several coaches of a train caught fire in southern India today.

A LUFTHANSA passenger jet made an emergency landing in the Polish city of Katowice yesterday after a drunk passenger began shouting that he was a terrorist, border guards said.

Pakistan’s president today vowed that crucial parliamentary elections would go ahead tomorrow as planned despite a massive suicide car bombing at a campaign rally that killed up to 46 people – many of them supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

More than 20 people died today in a wave of violence that swept across Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

ANGRY supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto took to the streets of Pakistani cities yesterday, from the Himalayas to the southern coast.

A self-proclaimed Indian holy man who claimed his right leg had magical powers was seriously ill in hospital today after two men chopped it off.

A SERIES of explosions ripped through courthouse complexes yesterday in three north Indian cities, Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, killing at least 13 lawyers and injuring dozens of other people.

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

A series of co-ordinated explosions ripped through courts in three north Indian cities today killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.

More than 3,000 people jailed in Pakistan under emergency rule have been released in recent days, the Interior Ministry said today.