South Africa’s touring team has sought security assurances from the Indian cricket board following reports that militants plan to target the third Test match starting on Friday in the northern city of Kanpur. South Africa team manager Logan Naidoo had written to the board expressing concerns over the players’ security.
China is struggling to prevent burgeoning protests in Tibet from overshadowing its Olympic preparations amid reports that monks have gone on hunger strike after the region’s biggest demonstrations in almost 20 years. Thousands of armed police have surrounded monasteries outside Lhasa, following marches against Chinese rule this week.
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/ 11 February 2008
An Indian doctor suspected of being behind a kidney transplant racket was arrested in Nepal on Sunday and paraded before journalists in the capital, Kathmandu. Amit Kumar is accused of running a hospital just outside Delhi which allegedly lured or forced hundreds of poor people into giving up their kidneys.
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/ 26 January 2008
Police arrested five people, including a doctor, in the suburbs of Delhi early on Saturday morning for allegedly removing kidneys from young men without their permission and selling them to wealthy patients. The illegal organ transplant trade was being run from a private hospital in Gurgaon, just outside Delhi.
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/ 5 December 2007
Indian police have summoned former South Africa all-rounder Nicky Boje for questioning over a 2000 match-fixing case, they said on Wednesday. Boje and teammate Herschelle Gibbs were named in a Delhi police investigation into cricket corruption during South Africa’s tour seven years ago, which led to a life ban for then-captain, the late Hansie Cronje.
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/ 31 October 2007
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels will face an investigation by the national board over alleged links with a bookmaker during a one-day tour of India in January. The International Cricket Council said on Wednesday that investigation by its anti-corruption officials had found sufficient ground to ask the West Indies board to probe the issue further.