Rains triggered landslides, snapped electricity cables and inundated a parts of northern India, pushing the death toll from monsoon rains to 114.

India’s death toll from a week of monsoon rains rose to 66 while tens of thousands of people have been forced to seek refuge in makeshift relief camps, news reports said today.

At least 10 people were killed when their homes collapsed and another eight were missing after being swept away by floodwaters in northern India, bring the death toll from annual monsoon rains to at least 239, government officials said today.

Authorities asked air force helicopters to help evacuate nearly 300 passengers stranded in a train on flooded rail tracks in western Gujarat state where heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 90 people this week, a news report said today.

A crowded passenger train ploughed into a stationary cargo train in western India today, killing at least 24 people and leaving dozens more injured.

Police have fired shots into the air to disperse Hindu and Muslim mobs in western Gujarat after the governing Hindu-nationalist party was returned to power.

Nine people have been killed in India’s western Gujarat state as sectarian violence between rival Hindus and Muslims continues to spiral out of control.

Indian police say at least eight people are dead and 20 are injured after Hindu-Muslim clashes in western Gujarat.

Three people were killed and more than 30 injured when a bomb exploded on a train in India’s northern Punjab state.

Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in remote parts of western Gujarat state as sectarian violence that killed 708 people continued to boil in Indian villages that were not previously affected.

At least 1,000 people have been killed in the most powerful earthquake to strike the Indian subcontinent in more than half a century.