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/ 24 February 2011
Thousands of fans who had camped outside Bangalore’s stadium to buy tickets for Sunday’s World Cup showdown, clashed with police on Thursday.
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/ 31 January 2011
The Indian cricket board has nominated Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium as a replacement venue for the World Cup match between India and England.
At least 10 people were wounded when a bomb exploded on Saturday outside a packed cricket stadium in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Women rallied worldwide on Sunday to demand equal rights and protest against domestic violence and growing poverty in the global economic crisis.
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/ 15 October 2008
On a monitor in his office in Bangalore, radiologist Arjun Kalyanpur examines a scan of the skull of a six-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle.
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/ 10 October 2008
India made a spirited reply to Australia’s 430 in the first Test on Friday, reaching 68 without loss in their first innings.
Cities across India were placed on alert on Sunday with the army called out to patrol ”sensitive areas” after a wave of bombings left 46 people dead.
The death toll in India’s worst bootleg liquor tragedy in recent years rose to 180 on Thursday as 30 more victims died, police said. Labourers in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu bought the liquor, sold in plastic pouches from illegal shops and laced with chemicals, at the weekend and immediately fell sick.
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/ 15 December 2007
A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs left hospital smiling on Saturday, nearly six weeks after doctors removed her extra limbs in an operation. The team of around 30 medics took away what amounted to Lakshmi Tatma’s headless identical twin sister who was joined at the pelvis.
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/ 12 December 2007
Anil Kumble raised visions of a dramatic Indian victory with a five-wicket haul before Pakistan managed to escape with a draw in the third and final Test on Wednesday. The veteran leg-spinner grabbed 5-60 with shrewd variations on a wearing track as Pakistan finished at 162-7 in fading light chasing an improbable 374-run target off 48 overs on the fifth and final day.
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/ 12 December 2007
In-form Saurav Ganguly cracked 91 to lead India to 221 for five at lunch on the last day of the third and final Test against Pakistan on Wednesday. Ganguly and Rahul Dravid (42) took their overnight third-wicket stand to 152 after the hosts had resumed at 131 for two.
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/ 11 December 2007
Pakistan grabbed two quick wickets to spark some life into the third and final Test on Tuesday after Misbah-ul-Haq’s unbeaten century brought the visitors 89 runs short of India’s first-innings total of 626. In-form Misbah struck 133 and was involved in two fruitful partnerships to help the visitors, resuming at 369-5, post 537.
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/ 10 December 2007
Pakistan’s new crisis men Misbah-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal defied India in an unbroken sixth-wicket stand after Younis Khan’s masterly 80 in the third and final Test on Monday. In-form Misbah struck a controlled 54 and Akmal a gritty 32 as the visitors, searching for a series-levelling victory, ended day three on 369-5.
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/ 8 December 2007
Yuvraj Singh and Sourav Ganguly hammered explosive centuries to lead India’s fightback in the third and final Test against Pakistan in Bangalore on Saturday. Yuvraj celebrated his comeback with a career-best 169 and Ganguly scored a fluent unbeaten 125 as an injury-hit India recovered from a horror morning session.
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/ 7 November 2007
Doctors in India have successfully operated on a two-year-old girl born with four arms, four legs and extra internal organs. A team of around 30 medics removed what amounted to Lakshmi Tatma’s headless identical twin sister who was joined at the pelvis and who did not develop and separate properly in the womb.
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/ 30 September 2007
Australia underlined the strength of their reserves in a rain-abandoned first one-dayer against India on Saturday, and stand-in skipper Adam Gilchrist said their performance boded well for the future. Reserve ‘keeper Brad Haddin hit 69 and then all rounder James Hopes lashed 37 in the final overs to help revive Australia’s innings after early trouble to total 307-7.
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/ 27 September 2007
Australia captain Ricky Ponting warned Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s celebrating Indians on Thursday that the tourists are determined to start the one-day series on a winning note on Saturday. Ponting said India would be under pressure after lifting the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa and his side had all the resources they needed, despite missing key players.
Shaun Pollock struck his maiden one-day international century on Wednesday but failed to prevent Asia XI from scoring a 34-run win over Africa XI in the first of three matches. Pollock (33) one-day cricket’s top-ranked all-rounder, lashed 130 to lift the innings from 87 for seven in reply to Asia XI’s 317 for nine,
Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan hit an unbeaten 47 to guide Asia XI to a six-wicket victory over Africa XI in the one-off Twenty20 cricket match in Bangalore on Tuesday. The Asian team were struggling at 34-3 before surpassing their opponents’ modest total of 109-8 with more than four overs to spare in the day-night game on a seamer-friendly pitch.
The Indian cricket board short-listed South Africa’s Graham Ford on Monday for the job of national coach and eliminated Australian Dav Whatmore from contention. A board official said the former South Africa coach and another unidentified candidate would be called to meet its coaching committee on Saturday.
India’s biggest distiller, the United Breweries Group, said on Monday it had dropped plans to buy French champagne group Taittinger as ”local groups” had stepped in with a new offer. According to French newspaper Les Echos, Belgian businessman Albert Frere is considering re-entering the bidding.
Cashing in on a high birth rate and the enormous potential of stem-cell research, India’s biotechnology firms are coaxing more parents to bank blood from their newborn’s umbilical cord. Stem cells are master cells from which the body’s immune and blood system originate and which can develop into cells of any organ.
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/ 23 December 2005
Manoj Namburu ran a technology consulting firm in the United States before he moved to India’s hi-tech capital three years ago to build luxury houses for wealthy software executives. The villas located on the edge of the sprawling city of six million were an immediate hit with software engineers who were willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy peace in Bangalore.
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/ 24 November 2005
Call it Zuluwood. In a bid to expand audiences for south Indian movies, the Tamil film Priyasakhi is being dubbed into Zulu, a language spoken by nearly nine million people in South Africa. Priyasakhi is a story of love, separation and reunion between a rich girl and a middle-class boy.
United States PC giant Dell announced on Friday that its Indian subsidiary will employ 10 000 people by year-end and will continue to expand thanks to a cheap and skilled local talent pool. Bangalore, home to more than 1 500 technology firms, exports more than a third of India’s software.
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/ 20 September 2004
India on Monday was set to launch its first satellite to be used exclusively for education, which will connect classrooms in remote parts of the country, the space agency said. The satellite was built with a mission life of seven years and will transmit information that will train teachers and provide primary and university education in remote regions.
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/ 23 January 2004
A man who escaped from a fire that engulfed a wedding pavilion and killed at least 45 people in southern India on Friday, said he could hear people crying out from the flames. ”We could hear a lot of shouting from inside asking for help. We could do nothing because the fire was blazing,” he said.
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/ 5 December 2003
A foundation started by software mogul Bill Gates on Friday launched a -million programme to curb Aids in south India. The programme will include highway centres providing condoms and education about HIV. India has more HIV-positive people than any country except South Africa.
The success of global trade liberalisation talks is at ”serious” risk unless rich countries dismantle trade barriers and grant market access to developing nations, a World Bank official warned on Thursday.
India’s competitive advantage of being able to provide cheap labour to the software industry will come under serious threat in two years as its currency appreciates and salary costs rise, a top industry official warned on Tuesday.
Headhunters in India’s Silicon Valley are jumping onto the IT-enabled services bandwagon by providing contract workers and software engineers to foreign firms for ”back-office” operations.