A speeding bus plunged off a bridge in central India on Saturday, killing 30 people and injuring 16 others, authorities said.
With the death toll at 19 and no one in custody, Indian authorities say they are close to preparing the sketch of a suspect in the three deadly blasts that rocked Mumbai last week.
An explosion Saturday at an eatery in the western Indian city of Pune killed at least nine people and injured 33 others, authorities said.
Limit displays of affection as you celebrate Valentine's Day or face prosecution, authorities in western India are warning the public.
Mahesh Poddar can barely hold back tears when he talks about his daughter, Mini, who committed suicide when she was 15 years old.
A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.
A bridge and a water pipeline collapsed on a train passing underneath in western India on Friday, killing at least one and injuring six others, police said.
Suspected Maoists bombed a school and a railway track, and set several communication towers afire, Tuesday in eastern India in anticipation of a government crackdown, authorities said.
At least 17 police officers were killed in what Indian authorities say was a shootout with Maoists Thursday.
At least 300 people have been killed and more than 1 million displaced in the flooding triggered by torrential rains in India, officials said Tuesday.
The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday.
Schools, colleges and cinema halls in India's commercial capital of Mumbai have been ordered to shut over a mounting H1N1 scare, officials said Wednesday.
At least 13 women died and 18 were missing after two boats capsized in western India, police said Sunday.
At least 16 police officers, including five women, died in a shootout that erupted after suspected Maoists ambushed them Thursday in central India, a state official said.
A freight truck carrying more than 30 passengers overturned Monday in western India, killing 19 of them, including six children, police said.
Twenty-two people were killed and 58 others injured in a fireworks factory fire in western India, police said Saturday.
Indian authorities are moving the youngsters from Mumbai slums to new residences
Mumbai damage
updated: Fri Dec 26 2008 21:21:00
Video of damage left after almost 60 hours of horror.
An Indian official said the coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 183 people in nine sites across Mumbai this week could have been much worse.
CNN's Mary Snow reports on the death of a rabbi and his wife held hostage and then killed in the Mumbai attacks.
They were fathers and daughters, tycoons and spiritualists, Westerners and Asians, who were in Mumbai for different reasons. But they met the same fate in the indiscriminate path of gunfire and explosions in a string of terror attacks across the Indian city this week.
Hemant Karkare, Mumbai's slain terror chief, was a shrewd and unflappable investigator whose death is a blow to a police force that has difficult work ahead, his colleagues said this week.
Authorities said they were searching the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, on Saturday morning after killing several militants, and other standoffs across the city appeared to have ended by Friday.
CNN's David Mattingly has a detailed look at the attacks on Mumbai, India.
The morning after teams of gunmen carried out a brazen series of attacks across southern Mumbai, killing scores of people and taking hostages in three locations, the situation showed little signs of a quick resolution.
Police arrest right-wing politician Raj Thackeray for allegedly inciting attacks against migrants.
Mobs barged into a railway station in the eastern Indian state of Bihar Wednesday and set two passenger cars on fire to retaliate against alleged attacks on Biharis in another state, police said.
Serial bomb explosions ripped through India's remote northeastern state of Tripura on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring about 100, authorities said.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday on Tuesday, police said.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
India is on high alert after a series of near-simultaneous explosions killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 others in a top tourist spot, government and local officials told CNN-IBN.
The aftermath of several explosions in a crowded market in Jaipur, India.
In a ritual that would terrify most mothers, Indian villagers have cheered as screaming babies were dropped from a 50-foot temple tower.
Babies are dropped several stories for good health and good luck at a shrine in Solapur, in Maharastra, India.
Vimlendu Jha is the founder and head of Swechha -- We For Change Foundation which is based in India's capital, New Delhi.
Investigators were pursuing leads on Monday from materials used to make bombs that killed 40 people in a southern Indian city, while Hindu nationalists called a strike to protest against the attacks blamed on Islamist militants.
Dozens killed in India attacks
Readers of the The Sun, a British tabloid best known for its bare-breasted Page Three girls, opened their newspapers to see a young woman named Keeley Hazell wearing only green paint. Ms. Hazell is the face - well, not just the face - of the paper's campaign against global warming.
South Asia is a high-risk region for bird flu and a consequent economic recession because of the large role that poultry plays in the lives of many people there, the World Bank has warned.
India on Thursday braced for the results of lab tests on whether bird flu had infected humans as traffic restrictions were imposed in a western town.
Indonesia says a woman has died of bird flu, raising the number of human bird flu deaths in that country to nine this year alone.
Mass culling of chickens continued Tuesday in India, with officials widening to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) the radius of the zone in which all poultry is being killed to stop the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
A lab has confirmed the detection of more bird flu in Germany with the discovery of 22 new cases on the island of Ruegen, according to The Associated Press.
The mass culling of poultry continued Monday in India's western state of Maharashtra, two days after three cases of bird flu were found among chickens there.
Europe is stepping up efforts to fight bird flu as Indian officials and farm workers cull hundreds of thousands of chickens in a bid to stave off the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus.
Indian health officials and farm workers have begun culling hundreds of thousands of chickens in a bid to stave off the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
France says a dead duck has the lethal strain of H5N1 bird flu that is spreading around the world, as India says it is testing eight people for the illness and culling poultry.
It is 3 a.m. on a Tuesday in Mumbai's northwestern Malad district, and in the far distance a group begins to emerge from the empty darkness.
About 850 people have died from record-setting rains that caused extensive flooding in Mumbai and triggered landslides in the region, authorities said Saturday.
Nearly 750 people have died from torrential, record-setting rains that soaked Mumbai and triggered mudslides in the region, police said Friday.
A torrential, record-setting downpour that drenched Mumbai overnight Tuesday, and the landslides it triggered, caused more than 400 deaths in the region, police in India's commercial capital told CNN Thursday.
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