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/ 26 November 2005
About 100 people were feared dead after two packed passenger buses skidded off bridges in southern India amid heavy rains, police and officials said on Saturday. The bridges had been swamped by water due to lashing rains, the worst in years, that have turned some parts of the state into lakes.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa trounced India by 10 wickets on Friday in their fourth limited-overs international in Kolkota on Friday. Proteas captain Graeme Smith led the charge with a smashing 134 not out at the jam-packed Eden Gardens. South Africa now leads 2-1 in the five-match series with the final match to be played Monday.
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/ 25 November 2005
Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall grabbed three wickets each to help South Africa bowl out India for 188 in the fourth one-dayer at the jam-packed Eden Gardens in Kolkota on Friday. Pollock struck thrice in his first four overs as India, sent in to bat on a seamer-friendly wicket, collapsed to 23-3 and later 71-5.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa captain Graeme Smith expressed confidence on Thursday that his team can make a fresh start after its unbeaten streak was broken during the ongoing series against India. South Africa finished one short of Australia’s world-record sequence of 21 games without a defeat last week when it lost by six wickets to India in the second one-dayer of the five-match series.
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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.
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/ 23 November 2005
Indian conglomerate Tata Group will invest more than -million (R1,5-billion) in South Africa over the next three years to develop and operate telecommunication services, a news report said on Wednesday. Tata’s telecommunications unit plans to invest in the country’s long-distance and wireless service.
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/ 22 November 2005
Heavy rain and a water-logged ground forced the third one-dayer between India and South Africa to be abandoned without a ball being bowled in Chennai, India, on Tuesday. The five-match series remains locked at 1-1 after South Africa won the first match in Hyderabad by five wickets and India drew level with a six-wicket win in Bangalore.
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/ 22 November 2005
Heavy overnight rain and overcast skies delayed the start of the third one-day international between India and South Africa in Chennai on Tuesday. The incessant rain over the past two days soaked the Chidambaram Stadium and left the wicket and most of the outfield still covered 30 minutes before the scheduled start time.
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/ 21 November 2005
Repeated showers threatened to wash out the third limited-overs cricket international between India and South Africa in Madras, but officials and the two team captains said they hoped play would resume if the rain stopped by the end of Monday. The five-game series is level at present.
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/ 21 November 2005
Progress has been made in tackling HIV infection in key African countries, but five million people were infected across the world in 2005 taking the total beyond a record 40-million, a United Nations report said on Monday. The grim HIV/Aids epidemic claimed about 3,1-million lives during the year, more than half a million of them children, the report said.
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/ 16 November 2005
Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The morning rush-hour blast in Srinagar left people bleeding on the road and turned vehicles into twisted wrecks.
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/ 16 November 2005
Separated by six decades of bitter hostility, residents of the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir lined their heavily militarised frontier on Wednesday to wave and cheer as officials exchanged aid for victims of the massive quake that rocked the region last month.
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/ 16 November 2005
Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 68 as South Africa overcame a fighting India by five wickets in Hyderabad on Wednesday to grab a 1-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series. The victory took South Africa’s unbeaten streak to 20 matches and left them just one short of equalling Australia’s world record of 21 consecutive wins in 2003.
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/ 16 November 2005
Yuvraj Singh hit 103 as India recovered from a horrible start to post 249-9 in 50 overs in the first one-day international against South Africa in Hyderabad on Wednesday. India slipped to 5-3 and then 35-5 before Yuvraj’s fifth one-day century led a remarkable late-order fightback by the hosts.
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/ 15 November 2005
When South Africa toured India last year for a Test series, Mahendra Dhoni was just another aspirant for the Indian cricket team and played a tour game against them. Exactly a year later, when they are visiting for five one-dayers starting on Wednesday, he is a more swashbuckling batsman than even the likes of Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar.
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/ 10 November 2005
Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Narayanan had been on life support since his admission to the hospital in New Delhi on October 29.
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/ 10 November 2005
Former Indian president Kocheril Raman Narayanan died in an army hospital on Wednesday, after being admitted almost two weeks ago with acute pneumonia, the Press Trust of India news agency said. Narayanan had been on life support since his admission to the hospital in New Delhi on October 29.
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/ 6 November 2005
Analysts criticised India’s decision to open just one crossing on Monday on its de facto border with Pakistan in disputed Kashmir, instead of five announced earlier, saying the process is too slow to help millions of earthquake survivors before winter sets in.
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/ 2 November 2005
Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday in a car bomb blast that Islamic militants said was a "gift" to Indian Kashmir’s incoming chief minister. Police said the explosion took place in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.
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/ 31 October 2005
Police on Monday stepped up what they called one of the biggest manhunts to date in the Indian capital, New Delhi, which was cloaked in tight security after a weekend attack claimed by Islamic militants. Another victim succumbed to his injuries from Saturday’s coordinated explosions, bringing the death toll to 62.
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/ 31 October 2005
Three more bodies were recovered from the coaches of a derailed train that plunged into flood waters in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, raising the death toll to 113, an official said on Monday. The accident took place on Saturday 70km from the Andhra Pradesh state capital, Hyderabad.
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/ 30 October 2005
A series of near-simultaneous explosions rocked the Indian capital on Saturday evening, tearing through a bus and two markets jammed with people shopping for gifts ahead of an upcoming Hindu festival. At least 61 people were killed and 188 injured in the blasts, a home ministry official said on Sunday.
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/ 29 October 2005
Rescue workers pulled 100 bodies from seven coaches of a passenger train that derailed and fell into a rain-swollen river in southern India on Saturday, railway officials said, warning that scores more people were still trapped inside. About 100 injured passengers have been rescued from the coaches.
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/ 29 October 2005
Powerful explosions ripped through crowded markets in New Delhi just moments apart on Saturday, killing at least 55 people in an apparently coordinated attack on the eve of a major Hindu holiday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed ”terrorism”. More than 150 people were injured in the blasts.
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/ 29 October 2005
At least 50 people died when a passenger train derailed and toppled into swirling flood waters in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh early on Saturday, a correspondent for news agency AFP on the scene said. He said he had seen at least 50 bodies recovered by rescuers by noon.
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/ 28 October 2005
For India’s astrologers, even at 69,4-million kilometers away, Mars is too close for comfort. The red planet, named after the Roman god of war, will be at its closest to Earth since 2003 on Saturday and won’t come as near for another decade, prompting some astrologers to predict trouble, destruction and plain old bad luck.
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/ 26 October 2005
An Indian health ministry official on Wednesday said local firms could make a generic version of Swiss-based Roche’s Tamiflu as an emergency measure for an outbreak of avian flu. ”India could go in for manufacturing of the medicine [Tamiflu] under compulsory licensing if there is a national emergency,” the senior health ministry officialtold reporters in New Delhi.
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/ 26 October 2005
Indian quake survivor Altaf Hussein’s patience has worn thin. Every day for the past 10 days he has queued for kerosene from government trucks, and every day he has gone back empty-handed. As winter closes in, villagers like Hussein say little or no relief has reached this devastated mountain region — which accounted for more than half of the 1Â 300 deaths from an October 8 earthquake in Indian Kashmir.
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/ 25 October 2005
A female Finnish tourist was charged by Indian police after bathing nude in a north-western lake considered to be holy by Hindus, newspapers reported on Tuesday. The tourist, who was not identified, swam in the lake and then walked to her hotel in the nude.
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/ 19 October 2005
With a mug of fermented rice beer and a plate of grilled garlic chicken, burly trucker Parminder Singh relaxes after a hard day of driving on some of India’s most dangerous roads. ”Life away from home is always tormenting and you need some relaxation to ease the stress,” says Singh, who has completed a 2 000km trip carrying rice from the Punjab to this remote corner.
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/ 18 October 2005
Indian military analysts are divided over whether Google’s satellite image service, which the president has warned could help terrorists find targets, poses a serious threat to national security. Indian President Abdul Kalam has raised the alarm over the United States-based search engine’s website Earth.google.com.
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/ 13 October 2005
Indian cricket selectors on Thursday appointed Rahul Dravid as captain for the coming limited-over series against Sri Lanka and South Africa. The selectors did not want to take a chance with longtime skipper Sourav Ganguly following his elbow injury that forced him to skip a domestic one-day trial match this week.