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/ 13 February 2009
An Indian court sentenced a man and his employee to death on Friday for the murder of a girl — one of 19 victims in a case that shocked the country.
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/ 21 January 2009
India expects to triple trade with Africa over the next five years to reach -billion, officials said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 January 2009
India’s foreign minister said on Monday that countries failing to clamp down on terrorism would pay a ”heavy price”.
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/ 13 January 2009
Indian democracy will be damaged if the government tightens media laws in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, media groups said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks.
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/ 22 December 2008
India accused Pakistan on Monday of trying to shift blame for last month’s Mumbai attacks and demanded it do more to dismantle militant networks.
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/ 17 December 2008
The Indian Parliament on Wednesday agreed tougher anti-terrorism laws that allow the detention of alleged militants for up to 180 days.
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/ 2 November 2008
India skipper Anil Kumble was set to officially announce his retirement as the third Test against Australia ended in a tame draw on Sunday.
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/ 1 November 2008
Michael Clarke on Saturday scored his eighth Test hundred to ensure Australia all but denied India victory in the third Test.
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/ 31 October 2008
India’s Virender Sehwag grabbed three wickets as Australia reached 338-4 on the third day of the third Test against India on Friday.
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/ 15 October 2008
Leaders from Brazil and South Africa on Wednesday blamed rich countries for the financial crisis that is hurting the developing world.
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.
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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.
A young girl’s throat is slit in her bedroom. The father is arrested, injected with a ”truth serum”, held for 50 days and then released.
About 50 pilots each year in India are being grounded because they had consumed alcohol before taking a flight, civil aviation authorities said.
MTN said on Saturday it was still pursuing tie-up talks with Reliance Communications after a dispute erupted over who has the first right to buy the Indian cellular operator.
A happily married couple in northern India got the shock of their lives when they learnt they had divorced 10 years ago, the Times of India reported on Tuesday. Meena Verma, a mother of two children, tried to file a case against her in-laws for violence, only to be told by a court in Haryana state that she had been divorced for a decade.
India’s top cellular company, Bharti Airtel, on Saturday called off merger talks with MTN, branding the ownership structure proposed by the flagship South African mobile firm ”completely unacceptable”. The merger would have created the world’s sixth-largest mobile company with a network of 130-million subscribers.
A Bharti Airtel official on Thursday said there were no new developments in its talks with South African telecoms operator MTN Group that could create the world’s sixth-largest mobile operator. Bharti said on May 5 it was in exploratory talks with MTN, and on May 13 said it had not made any bid for the South African firm.
Merger talks between India’s biggest cellphone services firm, Bharti Airtel, and South Africa’s flagship MTN Group could wind up this weekend, a report said on Saturday. A merged group would create the world’s sixth-largest mobile company with a network of 130-million subscribers.
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile operator, may seek a merger or share swap with MTN Group to try to avoid a bidding war for the South African phone firm, analysts and media reports say. A successful deal would be India’s biggest foreign acquisition and create the world’s sixth-largest mobile operator.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will look at ways to protect Test cricket in the wake of Twenty20’s growing impact at a two-day board meeting starting in Dubai on Monday. The India Premier League was launched last month involving several high-profile players and has taken the cricket world by storm, with the England board also planning their own league.
India’s largest hospital and pharmacy chain, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, is planning to set up hospitals in African countries, chairperson Prathap Reddy said on Wednesday. Apollo plans to take its total hospital bed count to 10 000 from 8 000 now over 18 months.
India spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for the remainder of a domestic Twenty20 league after he was found guilty on Monday of slapping compatriot Shanthakumaran Sreesanth. Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi told a news conference that the cricketer would be fined all of his match fees from the tournament.
The Dalai Lama on Friday welcomed China’s offer to meet his envoy for talks after weeks of protests over Tibet and repeated calls from the exiled spiritual leader for dialogue with Beijing. China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that talks would take place in the coming days, which the Dalai Lama’s spokesperson described as "a step in the right direction".
Police in India have arrested a man for stealing more than 100 sperm samples from a laboratory in the western state of Maharashtra, a news report said on Tuesday. Police told the Times of India daily that Anil Punjaba Mohite had stolen 101 sperm samples from Cryobank, a sperm bank in central Aurangabad city, last week.
The Olympic torch was paraded through India’s capital on Thursday, along a historic thoroughfare purged of spectators, as 15 000 police officers kept protesters from the world’s largest community of exiled Tibetans far from the route. Across India, thousands of mainly Tibetans protested.
Grim-faced Chinese guards protecting the Olympic torch have attracted further criticism ahead of the global relay’s arrival in India, where bitter memories of war with its neighbour remain fresh. Phalanxes of Chinese security personnel are accompanying the flame’s around-the-world journey to shield it from pro-Tibetan demonstrators.
India has joined the race with China for Africa’s abundant hydrocarbons and natural resources while offering to empower the 53-nation continent through affordable technologies, the development of human capital and equal partnerships. The first-ever India-Africa summit began in New Delhi on Tuesday.
India sought to deepen strategic and economic ties with resource-rich Africa as it held its first summit meeting with African leaders on Tuesday and sweetened the pot by offering financial help. Indian Premier Manmohan Singh, playing host to the African leaders, announced export tariff cuts that he said would benefit 34 of Africa’s 53 countries.
South Africa paceman Dale Steyn has risen to joint number one in the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings for Test bowlers, alongside Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. Steyn (24) joined Muralitharan after claiming eight to bowl the tourists to an innings victory in the second Test against India on Saturday for a 1-0 series lead, the ICC said on Monday.