Garret Campbell tells Denise Hall about the success of his organisation’s project sending Irish teachers to remote parts of India

Soldiers in north-eastern India have cleared a path to a hydroelectric project where 17 people were confirmed killed by landslides in a powerful Himalayan earthquake, bringing the overall toll in the disaster to 99.

A strong earthquake shook north-eastern India and Nepal tonight, killing at least 16 people, damaging buildings and sending MPs in Nepal’s capital running into the streets.

The death toll from a train derailment in northern India rose to at least 60 today as more bodies were pulled out of the mangled coaches.

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country’s tigers, a government minister said today.

At least seven people were killed as Maoist rebels launched an attack today in a bid to disrupt the general election in the world's largest democracy.

The death toll in the bombings in north-eastern India rose to at least 76 today as officials said local militants may have been helped by other terrorist groups to carry out the attacks.

An overcrowded, speeding bus crashed into a stationary truck in north-eastern India today, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others, police said.

Police shot at violent mobs in north-eastern India, killing 14 people and raising the death toll from three days of ethnic clashes to at least 30, officials said today. About 25,000 villagers have fled their homes, they said.

An outbreak of bird flu has killed at least 25,000 birds in eastern India , officials said today.

SOCIALITE and former drink-driving jailbird Paris Hilton has become an unlikely icon for conservationists trying to highlight the plight of binge-drinking elephants in north-eastern India.

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains during the weekend killed at least 10 people in north-eastern India and forced hundreds to flee their homes, officials said today.

Authorities in India’s remote north-east have given orders to hunt down and kill a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths that has been nicknamed Laden by fearful villagers, after the al-Qaida leader.

A militant group ambushed and killed 11 people today, including seven soldiers, in India’s remote North-East.

Five villagers accused of being witches were hacked to death by unidentified attackers in north-eastern India, officials said today.

A grenade explosion and a subsequent stampede during a Hindu festival in north-eastern India left four people dead and 40 injured, including at least four foreigners.

The death toll in a bus accident in north-eastern India rose to 64 today after more bodies were recovered from a lake into which the bus, carrying a wedding party, had plunged.

A bus carrying wedding guests veered off a road and plunged into a lake today in north-eastern India, killing at least 47 people.

Police opened fire on stone-throwing students in two towns in north-eastern India today, killing 12 people, authorities said.

Torrential monsoon rains triggered mudslides in the capital of Assam state in north-eastern India today, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, police said.

Bombs exploded today during Independence Day celebrations in India’s portion of Kashmir, despite tight security in the region.

Suspected rebels woke up sleeping villagers in north-eastern India and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing six of them and raising the death toll to 63 from three days of violence in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.

A string of bomb and gun attacks in north-eastern India continued for a second day today, as a blast at a crowded market wounded 15 people. Police have blamed the violence that has left 50 dead and more than 100 wounded on separatist rebels.

A passenger bus and another bus carrying paramilitary soldiers and their families were blown up in separate explosions in north-eastern India’s insurgency-wracked Assam state today, killing four people and wounding 39 others, officials said.

Four people, including a child, were killed yesterday when a powerful bomb exploded during a Hindu festival in Gauripur in north-eastern India.