India's financial center came to a halt Tuesday as trains, cars and pedestrians paused during the evening rush hour to remember the moment one week ago when bombs ripped through Bombay's commuter rail network. Complete Story
India's third-largest software company, Wipro Ltd., said Wednesday that its net profit in April-June quarter jumped 44 percent from a year ago, driven by strong outsourcing orders from overseas.
A little-known Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for the Bombay train bombings warned Tuesday that it's planning attacks against government and historic sites in India in an e-mail to an Indian television station. Also, the death toll in the July 11 bombings rose to 207.
At first, all he felt was a jolt. For the first few moments, with his train packed with tired commuters, driver Anjani Kumar thought he had hit a rock.
Bombs ripped through a market thronged with holiday shoppers in India's capital. Then a packed temple in Hinduism's holiest city. Then overflowing commuter trains in the country's financial and entertainment hub.
Investigators said Monday they expect a breakthrough soon in last week's deadly train bombings, which officials have linked to Pakistan, as India demanded "firm commitment" from its nuclear-armed rival on reining in terrorists.
Hundreds of suspected communist rebels attacked a government-run relief camp and two police stations Monday in eastern India, killing at least 26 villagers. Four rebels also died.
Authorities lowered the death toll from the synchronized bombings of Bombay's commuter train network, saying Sunday that 182 had been killed.
Police investigating Bombay's deadly train bombings swept through several neighborhoods Saturday, rounding up more than 300 people for questioning.
Every weekday, Ashok Shah met up with his diamond-merchant friends as they headed to work on Bombay's clattering rail network: same train stations, same cars, same times. They talked business — prices, shipments, carats and quality — and chatted about family.
India's prime minister said Friday the Bombay train bombers were "supported by elements across the border" and that Pakistan must rein in terrorists before a peace process can move ahead.
India's prime minister said Friday that the Bombay train bombers were "supported by elements across the border" — a clear reference to Pakistan — which he said must rein in terrorists before a peace process can move ahead.
Even for crowded, chaotic Bombay, where troubles can descend like plagues, the disaster was shocking: a series of train cars ripped apart by bombs, with 200 people dead and more than 700 wounded.
Indian authorities named two suspects Thursday in this week's train bombings, an apparent breakthrough in the frenetic investigations into the well-coordinated attacks that killed at least 200 people.
A man claiming to represent al-Qaida in Kashmir said the terror network had set up a wing in Kashmir and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jihad, an Indian news agency reported Thursday. An official said the government said it was taking the claim "very seriously."
Indian police have detained about 350 people for questioning in connection with the Bombay train bombings, officials said Thursday, amid suspicion that Kashmiri militants could be linked to the attacks that killed at least 200 people.
They were the same rickety trains, rolling along the same tracks, carrying the same people — millions of Bombay residents who a day earlier had been targeted in a series of bombings.
The soggy, crumpled photograph shows a young man grinning at the camera. An inconsolable Vasanti Chavan is afraid it is the last happy photograph she will ever have of her 24-year-old son, Chetan.
The bombings that rocked India's financial hub, Bombay, are unlikely to slow India's fast growing economy or harm investor confidence, business leaders insisted Wednesday, saying the world has learned to live with the risk of terrorism.
Infosys Technologies Ltd. said Wednesday its net profit jumped 44 percent in the April-June quarter, driven by strong growth in outsourcing orders. It also raised its revenue and earnings forecast for the fiscal year through March 2007.
Indian authorities were aware Bombay could be targeted by terrorists and are investigating the possibility that a Kashmiri militant group carried out bombings that ripped through packed commuter trains in Bombay, a senior police official said Wednesday.
The prime minister praised this wounded city for its strength Wednesday, vowing that "no one can make India kneel," while a senior investigator said the Bombay train attacks that killed at least 200 people could be linked to a Kashmiri militant group.
Indian stocks rose a surprising 3 percent Wednesday, despite predictions of a sell-off following a series of train bombings the previous day that rocked the country's financial capital.
President Bush expressed outrage Tuesday at the deadly attacks on commuter trains in India and said the United States stood with India in the war on terror.
It took just minutes. One by one down the railway line, the bombs went off, ripping apart the trains, tearing through flesh and paralyzing what is arguably India's most vibrant city.