India has executed the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

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

United Drug is set to strengthen its packaging and speciality services division with the $61m (€49.5m) cash acquisition of the US and European operations of Indian healthcare services giant, Bilcare Ltd.

There have been four small explosions in the western Indian city of Pune, the country’s home minister said tonight.

Pressure was continuing to mount on Steve Kean yesterday as the Blackburn manager prepared for his latest meeting with the club’s owners.

Roberto Di Matteo has revealed he had Saturday’s Champions League final in mind when he paired Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres in Chelsea’s win over Blackburn.

Blackburn manager Steve Kean insists he and owners Venky’s are staying put while mystery surrounds the position of deputy chief executive Paul Hunt.

A bus driver killed nine people today by driving through the crowded streets of an Indian city for an hour.

Banking giant Santander UK today said it had returned all its call centres in India to the UK following complaints from customers.

ED JOYCE has been given special dispensation to represent his native Ireland in the 2011 World Cup, the International Cricket Council (ICC) last night confirmed.

An American convicted of helping plan the 2008 Mumbai terrorist massacre has backed claims that Pakistan was heavily involved in the attack.

AN Irish third-level college is expanding its relationship with one of India’s most significant universities, with a particular focus on research and innovation collaboration.

India and Pakistan held wide-ranging discussions today about terrorism, Kashmir and other disputes in the first talks between them since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

A bomb detonated in a crowded bakery popular with foreigners in western India killing nine people and wounding 57, officials said today, the first terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai massacre.

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

India’s health ministry is to issue new swine flu guidelines after the country reported its first death due to the virus today.

More than 2,000 ancient hand-written manuscripts in an Indian language are about to be made available online.

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

AN IRISHMAN is facing the prospect of spending the next decade in an Indian prison after police arrested him for being in possession of drugs.

Authorities in India suspended a prison guard and were investigating eight others for hugging and shaking hands with Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt after he was temporarily released on bail last week, a prison official said today.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sparked new reports they are planning to adopt an Indian child after visiting an orphanage in Pune on Friday.

Taking a break from shooting a film about the life of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, actress Angelina Jolie spent the weekend in the Indian capital playing another role – goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Indian soldiers have reportedly been drafted into the Indian city Pune after a vehicle carrying Angelina Jolie knocked down a teenager on Wednesday.

Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are disappointed after filming for their new movie was relocated to India, amid security and safety fears in Pakistan.

A security guard protecting Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie during their stay in India was reportedly filmed manhandling a British photographer on Saturday.

Investigators have arrested two more suspects in connection with the July 11 bombings on the Mumbai commuter rail network that claimed more than 200 lives, a television report said today.

Investigators have arrested two more suspects in connection with the July 11 bombings on the Mumbai commuter rail network.

Wearing protective gloves and masks, health officials and farm workers slaughtered thousands of chickens in western India today, a day after the country reported its first outbreak of bird flu among poultry.

Lab tests have confirmed that at least some of the chickens that died of bird flu in western India in recent weeks were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain, the country’s first case of the disease.

Banking group Lloyds TSB expanded its outsourcing programme today after signing a deal which further increases its workforce in India.

Toby Stephens, who played the villain in the most recent James Bond film Die Another Day, will step back in time to portray an autocratic 19th Century British officer based in India in a Bollywood epic planned for later this year.

INDIA, which has the world’s second largest population, has recorded its first confirmed case of the deadly SARS virus, officials from the National Institute of Virology confirmed yesterday.

Bootleggers in India are complaining of lost business after attacks on alcohol stalls by angry housewives.

An explosion in an Indian chemical plant has killed at least 11 workers and injured 10 others.