A city in western India has suffered through the country’s highest recorded temperature — a scorching 51C (123.8F).

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.

Authorities are searching for those responsible for putting on an illegal firework display which caused a blaze at a Hindu temple in southern India, killing at least 110 people.

A leopard has wandered into a school in southern India and injured three people as it tried to escape, officials said.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A man in India has proved to the world that chivalry is not dead.

At least 15 people heading to a wedding were killed when a minibus they were travelling in collided with another bus in southern India.

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Adam Matthews reports from "Knit City", the garment industry hub in India that generates billions in revenue but has also saturdated rivers with chemicals.

CRH is being linked with a second potential Asian deal in as many weeks, this one with a price tag of around $1bn (€890m).

Eleven people were killed and dozens of others injured when a train derailed after hitting a boulder that had fallen on to the track in southern India, officials said.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Heavy rain and gusts have ripped through a large swathe of India’s eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal, one of two storms pounding Asia.

Dozens of Indian nurses stranded in territory held by Islamic extremists in Iraq returned home to southern India today aboard a special flight, officials said.

Police in southern India have detained five construction company officials 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.

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.

Police arrested at least two men after a Danish tourist said she was robbed and gang-raped in the heart of the Indian capital’s tourist district, putting sexual violence in India further into the spotlight.

Rescuers using backhoes and shovels searched for survivors yesterday under a massive pile of broken concrete and dust that was left when a residential building under construction collapsed in southern India, killing at least 15 workers.

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

Indian police have arrested 10 people and charged six of them with allegedly gang-raping a 21-year-old woman on Christmas Eve in southern India, in another case of sexual assault of women in the country.

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A train has struck and killed eight people in southern India.

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches in July at the school in eastern India, police said.

A school principal and her husband have been charged with murder after 23 children died from eating pesticide-contaminated lunches at the school in eastern India in July, police said today.

At least 13 people have been killed as a bus fell into a gorge after hitting a roadside tree in southern India.

World markets were mixed again yesterday with the Iseq losing much of the gains made on Friday as profit-taking took hold.

The head of an Indian primary school where 23 children died after a meal made with contaminated oil has been arrested, nine days after she went into hiding.

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

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At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a two-storey hotel collapsed in southern India, an official said today.

Irish schoolbook publisher Folens has launched an investigation into claims that a factory in India is paying workers as little as €3 for 10-hour shifts printing some of its titles.

A man in southern India has been charged after allowing his nine-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, police in southern India said today.

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Twelve people have been killed and dozens more injured in a series of bomb blasts in southern India.

Heavy rains triggered by a tropical storm have killed at least 22 people in the past four days in southern India, according to a government official.

A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

Thousands of people have moved to higher ground and schools and colleges have closed as a cyclone roared in the Bay of Bengal toward coastal areas, authorities in southern India have said.