Authorities have shut schools, sprinkled water in streets and rushed a water train to a parched state in western India where scorching temperatures have reached up to 51C (124F).

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

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Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also killed some of the world’s last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also hurt the world's last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials have said.

More than 150 people are feared buried under a landslide that hit a village in western India following torrential rains.

Dental surgeons in India’s largest city say they have removed 232 small "tooth-like structures" from the mouth of a teenage boy with a rare medical condition.

Dental surgeons in India’s largest city have removed 232 small “tooth-like structures” from the mouth of a teenage boy with a rare medical condition.

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A passenger train has derailed in western India, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 100, an official said.

Eight people were killed when two adjacent three-storey apartment buildings collapsed in western India, police said.

One person has been killed and at least 31 others injured in a crash involving two trains in western India, according to news reports.

Twenty-four people were killed today when a lorry carrying workers overturned on a slippery road after overnight rains in western India.

Twenty seven people were crushed to death and several more injured when they were pinned between two minibuses involved in a multiple pile-up in western India.

A tainted batch of bootleg alcohol has killed at least 102 people and sent dozens more to hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.

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.

At least 45 people have been killed after a bridge collapsed in western India.

More than 40 people are feared dead after a bridge collapsed while under construction in western India, police said today as hope faded for finding survivors.

A speeding train derailed in western India, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80.

A speeding train derailed in western India this morning killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80 others.

Rescuers were today trying to reach a four-year-old boy stuck in a 150-ft well in western India by manually digging a pit next to it.

Twenty-six women drowned when two boats capsized in western India.

At least 69 people, mostly poor workers living in slums, have died after drinking tainted home-brewed alcohol in western India.

Authorities in western India have arrested eight doctors for alleged medical malpractice after a hepatitis B outbreak killed at least 36 people, officials said.

Suspected communist rebels ambushed and killed 15 policemen in a jungle in western India, police said today.

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The identity of the terrorists behind the Mumbai atrocities remained a mystery today, but experts agreed they appeared to combine local grievances and international inspiration.

Police say 18 people, including 10 children, have been killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in western India.

AT LEAST 167 people were killed and scores injured yesterday in a frenzied stampede at a Hindu temple in western India, police said.

At least 168 people were killed and 100 injured when thousands of pilgrims stampeded today at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India, officials said.

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured today when thousands of pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India.

AN obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronised explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of “the terror of Death” in an email sent to several television stations minutes before the blasts.

Members of one of India’s lowest castes rioted today in a bid to get shunted even further down the social ladder, and four people were killed after a mob beat a police officer to death, officials said.

At least 20 people were feared dead after a series of bombs exploded in the historic Indian tourist city of Jaipur today.

At least 42 people, most of them schoolchildren, were killed when a bus plunged into a canal in western India, reports said today.

Sixteen people, including two children, were crushed to death under a train in western India.

An outbreak of bird flu has killed at least 25,000 birds in eastern India , officials said today.

More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from villages in western India after torrential monsoon rains killed at least 75 people in two states and flooded Mumbai, the country’s financial and entertainment capital, government officials said today.

Mudslides and drowning caused by torrential monsoon rains killed at least 12 people in western India over the weekend and flooded Mumbai, the country's financial and entertainment capital.

Mudslides and drowning caused by torrential monsoon rains killed at least 12 people in western India over the weekend and flooded Mumbai, the country’s financial and entertainment capital.

Police have detained a man suspected of supplying the explosives used in last week’s deadly blast at a mosque in southern India, authorities said.

A bomb ripped through a historic mosque as Friday prayers were ending in southern India, killing at least five people and wounding more than two dozen, officials said.

A petrol tanker, lorry and bus collided today in western India, sparking a blaze that engulfed all three vehicles and killed at least 30 people, an official said.

At least 15 workers were feared dead after an explosion at a gelatine manufacturing plant in western India today, a news report said.