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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.
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/ 10 October 2005
The official death toll from Japanese encephalitis in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh reached 1Â 058 on Monday after 12 more children died from the mosquito-borne disease, officials said. The worst outbreak of the fatal illness in nearly two decades had been expected to peter out with the onset of winter, but about 350 people are still in state-run hospitals.
Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly may be forgiven for thinking fate is against him. Dogged by bad form and a spat with his coach, he now has to overcome injury before answering his critics. Laid low with a tennis elbow, it will now be all the more difficult for him to save his captaincy as well as his place in the side, and the 33-year-old admits he has a battle on his hands.
A Finnish man and his Indian girlfriend were arrested in India after neighbours complained that they were playing pornographic movies with the volume turned up too loudly, a police officer said on Wednesday. Exhibiting pornography and possessing pornographic materials are illegal in India.
At least 18 people were killed and scores injured on Monday when a speeding passenger train derailed and slammed into a brick cabin at a railway station in central India, police and railways spokespersons said. ”Casualty figures will increase as we find more bodies,” a railways spokesperson said.
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/ 24 September 2005
Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly said on Saturday that a spat with coach Greg Chappell should stay between the two men and should not be allowed to drag down the team ahead of a busy international schedule. The coach-captain spat worsened on Friday when Chappell reportedly said in an e-mail sent to the Indian cricket board that he believed Ganguly was no longer fit to lead the side.
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/ 22 September 2005
An Indian newspaper advertisement that suggested parents would be blamed if they failed to buy pepper spray to deter rape attacks on their daughters was withdrawn on Thursday after a women’s group protest. The advertisement in several daily newspapers for Knockout pepper spray asked readers: "Tomorrow if your daughter gets raped who is to be blamed? The rapist or you?" and recommended the spray as a deterrent.
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/ 22 September 2005
At least 64 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced after powerful storms left a trail of devastation across the Indian and Bangladeshi coasts in the Bay of Bengal, officials said on Wednesday. The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh bore the brunt of the storms, which killed 58 people in the region.
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/ 21 September 2005
A court in India’s western desert state of Rajasthan fined an Israeli couple $22 for kissing in public after their wedding ceremony at a revered Hindu pilgrimage site, reports said on Wednesday. The court in Pushkar imposed the 1 000 rupee fine on the couple, identified as Opez Alone and Selev Kermit, for "committing an act of indecency".
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/ 21 September 2005
At least 31 people were killed and about 62 000 left homeless when heavy rains pounded coastal areas of India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, reports said on Wednesday. All the deaths occurred in India’s southern Andhra Pradesh state, which bore the brunt of Tuesday’s storms.
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/ 16 September 2005
United States experts arrived on Friday to help Indian firefighters battle a major blaze at a burst oil well which was sending smoke and flames shooting into the sky, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night but failed to put out the blaze near Dikom, 520km east of Assam state’s main city Guwahati.
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/ 15 September 2005
An explosion and fire at a fireworks factory on Thursday killed at least 32 people in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, news reports said. The toll was expected to rise as rescue workers continued to remove bodies from the rubble and battle the blaze at the plant and three of its warehouses.
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/ 14 September 2005
South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje will not be offered an amnesty from police investigations into match-fixing if they tour India for a one-day series in November. Delhi police charged Gibbs and Boje, along with South African captain Hansie Cronje, with match-fixing during a tour of India in 2000.
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/ 13 September 2005
An Indian national on death row in Pakistan convicted as a spy and for setting bombs that killed several people, could get mercy from the victims’ families, Pakistan’s foreign minister said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that the fate of Sarabjit Singh could be decided by the relatives of those killed.
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/ 12 September 2005
The death toll from an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in northern India rose to 664 on Monday with 18 more deaths as doctors appealed for more ventilators to save the lives of young patients. On Sunday, a state government spokesperson said more than 2 400 patients were lying in hospitals, often two to a bed.
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/ 5 September 2005
The death toll from Japanese encephalitis rose to 460 in a northern Indian state after 28 more people died overnight from an outbreak of the mosquito-born disease, officials said on Monday. More than 500 patients, mostly children, were being treated in government hospitals across Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and among its poorest.
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/ 4 September 2005
At least 24 security personnel were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in the central Indian Chattisgarh state, police said on Sunday. Militants blew up a patrolling vehicle in the Dantewada district, 400km south of state capital Raipur, late on Saturday night, officers at district police headquarters said.
Japanese encephalitis has killed 14 more people in northern India, taking the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 267, officials said on Tuesday. The new deaths were reported since Monday in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and one of its poorest.
India’s cricket selectors want Sachin Tendulkar so badly that they will go to any length to have the master batsman back at the crease. The five selectors have provisionally included Tendulkar in the squad for next month’s two Test matches in Zimbabwe even before the batsman has begun training after elbow surgery.
With 63 more deaths in and around the western Indian city of Mumbai, the death toll due to leptospirosis and other water-borne diseases brought on by floods has climbed to 233, a local news agency report said on Monday. A senior health official told the PTI news agency that there are signs of the outbreak abating.