THE Commonwealth Games Federation signalled yesterday that Delhi was succeeding in fixing the problems that have brought the event to the brink of disaster, with fears receding about its cancellation.

A freight train on the wrong track crashed into a stationary passenger engine killing at least 21 people in India today.

At least 16 people were killed and 50 injured when a freight train on the wrong track slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at a railway station amid heavy rain in central India today, officials said.

Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a group of tourists near one of India's biggest mosques today, injuring two Taiwanese and raising concerns about security less than two weeks before an international sporting event in the Indian capital.

Former US President George Bush warned today that “the world would face serious threats” if the resurgent Taliban and al Qaida are allowed to retake control of Afghanistan.

Police in India have arrested a young couple for allegedly killing seven family members by poisoning and strangling them for objecting to a same-clan marriage.

India’s home minister said Pakistan could become a failed state and raised doubts about who was in control of the nuclear-armed country, a news report said today.

An explosion hit a crowded flower market in the Indian capital today, injuring at least 17 people, police said.

Police in India say they have detained several people in raids carried out across New Delhi a day after a series of blasts ripped through the Indian capital, killing at least 20 people.

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.

Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin joined Damien McGrane at the top of the Indian Masters leaderboard at a blustery Delhi Golf Club this morning.

Police in India have launched a major man hunt after this weekend's bombings in New Delhi in which at least 57 people died.

A court has ordered municipal authorities to remove stray cows roaming the streets of New Delhi within a week, a news report said today.

The first commercial flight between India and Pakistan in two years arrived in the Indian capital amid rising hopes of peace between the south Asian nuclear rivals.

An air force plane crashed into houses near a base in northern India today, killing at least three people and injuring 12 others on the ground.

At least seven children have died after a fire raged through a shanty town near the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Tough talk over the disputed Kashmir province escalated and security was tightened today, the eve of a landmark summit between India and Pakistan.