A leaning multi-storey building in the Indian city of Surat has finally succumbed to gravity and collapsed.

At least 11 schoolgirls were killed and another 14 injured when a school building in the western Indian state of Gujarat collapsed, news reports said today.

Police today began searching a nuclear power plant in western India following claims by some local villagers that they had seen two men armed with automatic weapons entering the complex.

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

Indian health officials went door-to-door today searching for people possibly sickened by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.

Heavy monsoon downpours lashed eastern India today, submerging vast areas in the eastern state of Orissa and forcing around 140,000 people to flee their homes and move to higher ground.

Authorities in India’s western state of Gujarat today reported 129 new deaths in monsoon floods ravaging much of South Asia.

Three buildings in western India collapsed when a cooking gas cylinder exploded today, killing at least 17 people and injuring 43 others, police said.

A MUSLIM was stabbed

Still suffering from the effects of a massive earthquake, authorities in western India today alerted the armed forces to prepare for a severe cyclone building up in the Arabian Sea.

The death toll following an earthquake on the Indian subcontinent has risen to 653 and may rise to 1,000.

At least 500 people have been killed after a severe earthquake rocked the entire Indian subcontinent.

At least 136 people have been killed after a severe earthquake rocked the entire Indian subcontinent.

At least 20 people have been killed by a severe earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale which hit the Indian subcontinent.