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

Suspected Maoist rebels detonated a roadside mine in remote eastern India today, killing seven police officers, a news report said.

Flood waters have receded in many parts of western India, but tens of thousands of people remain stranded in marooned villages.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed seven people in a village in western India, while authorities evacuated more than 200 elsewhere in the area, a news report said Monday.