A ferry boat carrying schoolchildren has sunk in the Arabian Sea off India's western coast, killing two students and leaving six others missing.

An explosion at a chemical factory in western India has killed at least two people and injured more than 120, 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.

At least 41 people have died after drinking tainted alcohol in a slum in India’s financial hub of Mumbai, police said.

Indian poultry firms expect demand to pick up after a ban on beef in the country’s western state of Maharashtra, with other states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party also aiming to toughen laws on livestock slaughter.

A cat among the dogs: leopard diet in a human-dominated landscape is the intriguing title of an article published in September by Vidya Athreya, an ecologist with the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Bangalore. 

More than 150 people are feared buried under a landslide that hit a village in western India following torrential rains.

Police in southern India detained two construction company directors as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains.

A court has convicted four men of gang raping a photojournalist in India’s financial capital of Mumbai last year.

An Indian female politician and activist has said rape victims may have invited attacks by their clothes and behaviour.

A fire engulfed two coaches of an express train in southern India today, killing at least 26 passengers, officials said.

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A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said.

A girl of five has died after being raped in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Indian police have launched a manhunt for men suspected in the rape and killing of three sisters, aged six to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip India.

Indian police have launched a manhunt for men suspected in the rape and killing of three sisters, aged five to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip India.

India’s top court has ordered a state government to explain the arrest of two women for a comment one of them posted on Facebook.

India executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai today, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his plea for mercy.

Paul McCartney has helped to free an elephant kept chained in the dark for seven years.

Thousands of employees were evacuated from a seven-story government building in Mumbai as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for several hours.

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

Twenty seven people were crushed to death and several more injured when they were pinned between two minibuses involved in a multiple pile-up in western India.

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Indian investigators were today examining forensic evidence and CCTV footage for clues about who orchestrated the three bombings that killed 17 people in Mumbai.

At least 92 people were taken ill, eight of them critically, after they inhaled chlorine which leaked from a cylinder in an industrial part of India’s business capital, Mumbai, officials said today.

AT LAST, restaurants are reporting an increased appetite for eating out; perhaps those green shoots really are sprouting. I’ve had several requests from readers for an update on the London food scene. Lots of good things are happening over there – despite the cautious atmosphere, many young people are “chomping at the bit” to open cafes, restaurants and gastro pubs.

An explosion in a bakery has killed eight people and injured 32 others in the western Indian city of Pune.

Security forces were searching forests in central India today after suspected Maoist rebels ambushed a patrol team, killing at least 17 policemen, a top official said.

All schools and colleges in India’s financial capital will be closed for a week from tomorrow to prevent the spread of swine flu.

The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai massacre dramatically admitted his guilt today in a detailed account of the plot that left 166 people dead.

A furious Indian bride burned her husband to death because he kept saying she was not as beautiful as one of his female friends.

The second phase of parliamentary elections in India ended relatively peacefully today in all but the rebel-affected state of Jharkhand.

Maoist rebels launched a series of attacks today as the second phase of parliamentary elections began in India.

Suspected communist rebels ambushed and killed 15 policemen in a jungle in western India, police said today.

Airports in India were on high alert today following warnings of a new terrorist attack.

The Mumbai massacre sparked fears today of a surge in violence between Pakistan and India, after India said the sole surviving gunman, now in custody, was from its nuclear-armed neighbour.

Authorities in Mumbai said today the death toll from the three-day terror attacks had risen to 195 as more bodies were discovered when commandos ended the siege at a luxury hotel.

Indian commandos killed the last three gunmen at the landmark Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai this evening after suspected Muslim militants stormed targets across the city.

Indian special forces raided two luxury hotels tonight trying to free hostages taken by terrorists who massacred more than 100 people in a series of co-ordinated attacks.

Indian troops said they had cleared Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel of terrorists and begun to remove bodies and hostage from the building.

Gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded station in co-ordinated attacks across India’s financial capital today, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage.

At least 78 people were killed and 200 injured today when gunmen opened fire on a crowded Mumbai railway station, luxury hotels and a restaurant popular with tourists.

A STAR-STRUCK Indian policeman has been suspended for hugging Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt when he was freed on bail after being convicted of arms possession over the 1993 Mumbai blasts, reports said yesterday.