Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the perpetrators of coordinated attacks on the financial capital Mumbai were likely based outside the country.

At least seven simultaneous attacks in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, Wednesday evening, targeted at least two five-star hotels, a commuter train station, a historic movie theater and a hospital. UPDATE: Terrorists were looking for U.S. and British passports.

At 8:34 pm Indian time Friday night (1504 UTC), India became the fourth group to land its flag on the Moon. The unmanned lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 ejected its Moon Impact Probe, which hurtled across the surface of the Moon at 1.5 kilometres per second (3000 miles per hour), and successfully crash landed near the Moon's south pole. Besides carrying three important scientific instruments, the lunar probe also carried the image of the Indian national flag, painted on all sides.

India's first lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1 (meaning 'moon craft' in Sanskrit), reached its destined lunar orbit on Wednesday. The satellite's on-board engine was fired for 58 seconds.

After two weeks of journey India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar orbit on Saturday (Nov. 08, 2008) evening. It started at 16:50 hrs IST and within 14 minutes, it the entered lunar orbit. It is now 504 km from Moon. ISRO says the most critical operation is successful. With this development, India's moon mission has been declared successful.

As India readies to launch its first unmanned lunar mission on 22nd October, space authorities are awaiting the green signal from the government for the country's maiden human space flight planned around 2015.

At least 103 people were killed and about 29 people injured in a major stampede in the Chamunda Devi temple at the start of Navaratra festival in Jodhpur, India on Tuesday morning.

Advancing the hope for an early Indo-US nuclear accord, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the Bill by 19 to 2, sending it to the full Senate (rpt) Senate.

In the worst-ever temple tragedy in Himachal Pradesh, at least 145 devotees, including 30 children have been killed and more than 50 injured in a stampede on Sunday at the Naina Devi shrine triggered by rumors of a landslide.

Union Home Minister of India Shivraj Patil on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting to review the security situation in the wake of serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

Condemning the bomb attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has described them as "dastardly acts of senseless violence" against innocent people.

A woman was killed and at least six people were injured in a series of five low-intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore, which were carried out in eastern parts of the information technology capital of India on Friday afternoon, DD News reports.