British PM David Cameron arrived in Mumbai today at the head of the largest trade delegation taken overseas by a prime minister, on a mission to “open doors for British business” in India.

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

THE death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit south Asia in decades passed 2,000, even as torrents of muddy water receded from millions of acres of farmland and rains shifted west.

Heavy monsoon rains lashed new areas of India, submerging dozens of villages in the West, as health workers raced to provide food and medicine to avert an outbreak of disease in the water-logged North.

Thousands of people were evacuated from India’s western coast even as a cyclone churning in the Arabian Sea for more than 36 hours weakened today, officials said.