Post-mortem tests on 22 children who died after eating a school lunch in India have confirmed that insecticide was in the food or cooking oil, doctors said.

At least 22 children have died and more than two dozen others are sick after eating a free school

At least 20 children have died and more are sick after eating free meals at a primary school in eastern India.

An argument over sacrificing goats during a Hindu festival triggered a stampede that killed 10 people today in a packed temple in northern India, officials said.

Police say at least 20 people have been killed and 15 critically injured in eastern India today when a minibus crashed into a tree and fell into a ditch.

Fierce thunderstorms with heavy rains uprooted trees and destroyed hundreds of homes, crushing dozens of people to death and injuring scores of others in northern India, police said today.

Eight people including a state politician have been given life sentences for the murder of a former minister in India following a decade-long trial.

HORDES of scientists, students and nature enthusiasts prepared yesterday for the longest total solar eclipse of this century, while millions planned to shutter themselves indoors, giving in to superstitious myths about the phenomenon.

The fourth phase of parliamentary elections in India began today on a peaceful note amid high security.

INDIA battled yesterday to reach at least half a million people stranded by floods without food or drinking water, as the military poured fresh troops into the country’s devastated north.

Forty farm labourers died after the lorry carrying them home from work plunged into a river, police in northern India said today.

At least 20 members of a wedding party were killed in eastern India today when the jeep carrying them plunged into a roadside canal, an official said.

A woman accused of practising witchcraft in eastern India was tied to a tree and beaten by enraged villagers, police said today.

Fans of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty took to the streets today to protested against the alleged mistreatment she has endured on Celebrity Big Brother.

At least 30 people were drowned today after a crowded boat capsized in the rain-swollen Ganges River in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

A 30-year-old man who had both kidneys surgically removed in what may have been an illegal transplant died in hospital today after struggling for three weeks to survive, officials said.

Suspected Maoist rebels freed more than 300 prisoners in an dramatic overnight raid on an Indian jail that left 11 people dead and triggered a protest today by the inmates’ relatives who were beaten back by club-wielding police.

A freight train rammed into a stationery passenger train in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand today, killing at least five people, officials said.

A fire engulfed three illegal fireworks factories in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar today, killing at least 20 people.

Investigators today sought witnesses and examined forensic evidence to determine who bombed a crowded train in northern India, killing at least 10 people.

A bomb exploded on a crowded passenger train in northern India today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 49, a railway official said.

Security forces fought rebels in a fierce gun battle today near India’s border with Nepal, leaving 21 dead in the first co-ordinated attack involving both Indian and Nepalese communist militants, police said.

The death toll from South Asia floods is on the rise again today as 29 more people were killed by flooding and water-borne diseases in India and Bangladesh.

Eleven children died and 60 others came ill after eating food served at an Indian temple celebration, officials said today.

A bus carrying wedding guests veered out of control and crashed into a rain-swollen river in eastern India, hours after a boat capsized in the same waterway.

Indians braved attacks by separatists and communists as they started voting today in parliament elections expected to return Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s governing coalition to power for another five years.

Twelve policemen have been killed in eastern India when suspected communist rebels detonated a mine under their vehicle.

An overcrowded boat capsized in a swollen river in eastern India today, drowning an unknown number of people, police said.

Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police van today and killed 18 people, mostly police officers, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, officials said.

Hundreds of Indian villagers fled their homes today as rising rivers breached their banks in the eastern state of Bihar.

At least 11 people were injured today when a bomb exploded in a train in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

A Pakistani man today confessed to attacking the US cultural centre in Calcutta, as he was dying after a shoot-out with Indian police, the Indian government said.