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/ 15 October 2008
Sachin Tendulkar will resume his quest to become the world’s most prolific batsman when India take on Australia in the second Test starting on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2008
Sachin Tendulkar scored 49 to help India avert defeat in the first Test against Australia on Monday, but saw himself fell short of a world record.
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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.
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/ 10 October 2008
A man was acquitted of drug trafficking after his lawyer told a court it was impossible to walk with a stash of heroin in his underpants.
World champions Australia are looking to put India’s veterans under pressure when their eagerly awaited four-Test series opens on Thursday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting says he is insulted by claims from India’s Virender Sehwag that Australia cheated during a series victory in January.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said on Tuesday he would retire from international cricket at the end of the Test series against Australia.
If statistics and experience alone won cricket matches, Australia would be regarded as no-hopers in the Test series against India.
A decision by Tata to shift a factory for the world’s cheapest car after protests has refueled debate about India’s troubled industrialisation push.
India’s ruling Congress Party on Thursday hailed US approval of a historic nuclear trade deal which will unleash billions of dollars of investment.
The death toll from a deadly stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan has risen to 194, officials said on Wednesday.
Authorities imposed a curfew in several towns in eastern India on Wednesday after fresh attacks by Hindus on Christians.
Cricket’s governing body on Wednesday took pre-emptive steps to ensure the upcoming Test series between India and Australia is free from acrimony.
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/ 24 September 2008
Twenty more people were killed, taking to 46 the death toll from floods in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 September 2008
State accused of stealing land and livelihoods for a factory that now lies empty.
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/ 14 September 2008
Police officers trawled slums in India’s capital on Sunday rounding up suspects, after serial bombings in the city a day earlier killed at least 20.
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/ 14 September 2008
Zeba, a 23-year-old model and actress says she’s found the perfect job. The money is great and her working hours are convenient.
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/ 7 September 2008
India grapples with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar.
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/ 3 September 2008
The Tata group on Tuesday said it had suspended work at the #320-million plant in India where it planned to make the Nano, the world’s cheapest car.
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/ 2 September 2008
Rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-eastern India and sent elephants and rhinos fleeing.
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/ 2 September 2008
Distraught and destitute, countless numbers of poor Indian villagers are slowly wading out of their flood-hit region in a desperate search for food.
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/ 1 September 2008
The Indian army and navy stepped up efforts on Monday to rescue hundreds of thousands marooned by floods.
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/ 1 September 2008
Niren Tolsi checks out the incredible journey of a street child turned photographer, Haran Kumar.
Protests against a factory being built in eastern India to make the world’s cheapest car forced a halt to work for a second day Saturday
Two thousand people are now feared dead in floods caused after a river changed course submerging hundreds of villages in northern India.
Thousands of people, most of them Christians, have sought shelter in government camps in eastern India, driven from their homes by religious violence.
More than a million people have been forced from their homes and 250 000 houses destroyed in one of the worst floods in India for decades.
Indian emergency services on Wednesday rushed supplies to 2,5-million people marooned after heavy monsoon rains caused a river to shift its course.
Tata Motors will move production of the world’s cheapest car from West Bengal if violent protests by farmers forced to sell their land continue.
Flood victims demanding food and shelter beat up government officials in India on Friday as monsoon rains spread misery among millions of people.
Forty-five nations met on Thursday to consider lifting a ban on nuclear trade with India, a move which will help launch a US-Indian nuclear deal.
Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods across South Asia in which 147 people have been killed in the past week as the downpours swamped villages.