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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…
Calcutta sex workers protest at ancient ritual
Sex workers in the Indian city of Calcutta are up in arms over an ancient ritual in which earth dug from near brothels is offered as a symbol of fertility to the Hindu goddess…
Forty die as bus skids into ditch
Forty people, most of them commuters, were killed on Monday when a crowded bus shot off a highway in torrential rains and plunged into a rain-filled ditch in India’s West Bengal…
16 Bangladeshis detained for Al-Qaida links
Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal have arrested 16 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants suspected of having links to the al-Qaida terrorist network and Islamic…