With just a patchwork of colourful plastic sheets to shield patients from the heavy monsoon rains, a Mumbai street acts as an unofficial ward to one of India's top cancer treatment centres.

Every year, the Tata Memorial Hospital draws tens of thousands of cancer sufferers thanks to its heavily subsidized medical care. But the city's steep hotel and rental prices force scores to sleep on nearby pavements.

Mumbai police Sunday arrested the fifth and final member of a gang suspected of raping a photographer, a crime that reignited anger about women's safety in India following a similar attack last year.

The latest arrest came as the victim's family urged the nation, including the media, to continue to fight for justice "for all those victims and their families" who have gone through "the same hell as we have."

Pakistani authorities on Sunday accused the Indian army of cross-border shelling that killed a woman and wounded seven other civilians in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

"A woman was killed and at least seven other villagers were wounded when Indian forces fired shells from across the Line of Control (Loc)," said local government official Masood-ur-Rehman.

Mumbai police Sunday arrested the fifth and final member of a gang suspected of raping a photographer, a crime that reignited anger about women's safety in India following a similar attack last year.

A Mumbai police team arrested the suspect in the capital New Delhi over the brutal attack on the woman as she was taking photographs in India's financial hub with a male colleague, a police official said.

Five men gang-raped a female photographer in India's financial hub Mumbai, police said Friday, fueling anger and stirring memories of a similar attack last December in New Delhi.

The latest incident occurred Thursday evening in an isolated part of an upmarket, centrally located district of Mumbai where the 23-year-old woman, accompanied by a male colleague, was taking photos of old buildings for a magazine, a police officer told Agence France Presse.

An Indian express train ploughed into a crowd of Hindu pilgrims in the country's east on Monday, killing 35 and triggering a riot as angry crowds went on the rampage, officials said.

The pilgrims were crossing the tracks at a station in the state of Bihar when the interstate passenger train ran into them, injuring dozens, a senior police officer said.

Indian police said Saturday they had arrested a top militant accused of helping mastermind the 1993 Mumbai blasts and over 40 other deadly bomb attacks across the country.

Seventy-year-old Abdul Karim Tunda, an alleged member of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, was arrested by a special Delhi police team near the border with Nepal on Friday.

New Delhi and Tehran were Saturday working to resolve a dispute over the detention of an Indian oil tanker by Iranian naval guards for allegedly polluting sea waters in the Persian Gulf.

The Indian government-owned MT Desh Shanti ship was on its way back to India from Iraq when it was stopped Tuesday by the Iranian authorities and taken to Bandar Abbas port.

India's navy on Friday retrieved three badly burned bodies from a submarine that exploded in a Mumbai dockyard and said it was unlikely any of the other 15 missing crewmen would be found alive.

The diesel-powered INS Sindhurakshak sank in a military dockyard early Wednesday, dealing a setback to India's naval ambitions just days after it unveiled its first domestically made aircraft carrier.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Pakistan Thursday against "anti-India activity" as tensions rise between the nuclear-armed rivals over a deadly attack on Indian soldiers.

"India has always strived for friendship with its neighboring countries," Singh said in an annual address marking India's 1947 independence from Britain delivered from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in New Delhi.