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Indian Maoists blow up train

20.11.09
A passenger train derailed after Maoist rebels blew up a Calcutta-to-Mumbai line in Jharkhand state, east India, killing a woman and injuring at least 30 people, five critically... more

Sachin Tendulkar sets new landmark with 43rd ton

20.11.09
Sachin Tendulkar recorded his 43rd Test hundred to help guide India to a draw in the First Test against Sri Lanka... more

India start well after Sri Lanka declare massive first innings total

19.11.09
Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir gave India's second innings a solid start on day four of the first Test in Ahmedabad... more

Your guide to Copenhagen and the global climate change summit

19.11.09
Energy analysis: Here's what those over-informed environmentalists/spotty greeno-commies/clean-tech hedge fund managers are talking about... more

Posing with rifle, ammo and shotgun... husband of severed-hand woman

19.11.09
Laden with guns and ammunition, this is the estranged husband of the woman who was found dying in the street with her hand hacked off... more

Singapore on the mend after worst slump since 1965

19.11.09
The economic recovery in Asia looked even more assured today after Singapore said it will expand next year now that it has pulled out of the deepest recession since independence in 1965... more

Mahela Jayawardene hits Sri Lanka to safety

18.11.09
A magnificent double century from Mahela Jayawardene put Sri Lanka in complete command on the third day of the first Test against India in Ahmedabad... more

Severed hand wife ‘had lived in fear for months’

18.11.09
Latest: Family of a young mother left dying in the street with her right hand cut off tell how she had lived in fear after months of feeling 'hounded and threatened'... more

Mothercare aiming to boost UK staff and its overseas expansion

18.11.09
Mothercare is hiring 400 extra UK staff over the next three years and ramping up the rate of its overseas store openings as the kidswear and baby-product specialist expands ... more

Tillakaratne Dilshan leads Sri Lanka fightback

17.11.09
Opener Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a superb century as Sri Lanka forced their way back on the second day of the first Test against India in Ahmedabad... more

London's IT pioneers get wired up in nude charity calendar

17.11.09
With their modesty covered by only a cable, 24 London internet entrepreneurs have bared all for a charity calendar... more

Defiant Brett Lee will not accept he’s finished

17.11.09
Brett Lee refuses to concede his career is over despite being forced to rest for up to 12 weeks because of a persistent elbow injury... more

ICC’s referral plans now look doomed as system won't be used in South Africa

17.11.09
The umpiring referral system will not be used in England’s Test series in South Africa this winter, leaving its future in serious doubt... more

China’s growing economic might is good for UK

17.11.09
Analysis: As Barack Obama visits Beijing, Goldman Sachs' expert on emerging markets argues London - rather than New York - is uniquely poised to benefit from China's boom... more

England prepare to give Adil Rashid chance to redeem himself

17.11.09
With three members of their first-choice bowling attack struggling with injury, there could be no better time for England to work out how to bring the best from leg-spinner Adil Rashid... more

England face calling up an extra bowler as injury crisis rocks the tourists

16.11.09
England have a bowling crisis for their one-day match against South Africa ‘A’ with Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Graeme Swann all ruled out while Paul Collingwood is a major doubt... more

India’s richest man reins in his pay to £2 million a year

16.10.09
India’s richest man has said he will take a 66% pay cut this year to “reflect his desire to set a personal example of moderation” ... more

Rahul Dravid dropped for one-day series

15.10.09
Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been omitted from the one-day squad for the first two one-day internationals of the upcoming seven-match series against Australia... more

Treasures of the maharajas unveiled at V&A

06.10.09
Treasures belonging to the great royal families of India which have never been seen in Britain go on show in London this week... more

Power shift as developing countries get a global role

25.09.09
Balance of world economic power irrevocably shifts as China and India were officially given roles in determing future of financial policymaking in the West ... more

India’s space mission finds ‘moving’ water on moon

24.09.09
Evidence that “large quantities” of water exist on the surface of the moon has been reported by India’s first lunar mission... more

Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing stars bring Indian summer to Proms

17.08.09
Indian Voices Day demonstrated the complex brilliance of the music and extraordinary technical prowess of the musicians... more

Badminton team's World Championships withdrawl 'was no over-reaction'

10.08.09
England badminton officials have defended their controversial decision to withdraw their team from the World Championships in India... more

Logica boosted by jobs move to India

07.08.09
Computer firm Logica is benefiting from a restructuring that cost some 250 British jobs as it outsourced work to India, posting a fourfold rise in profit ... more

India ace Malesh Narredu feels on top of the world

06.08.09
Sometimes in sport, it's still about more than just the money. Malesh Narredu might be on the wrong side of 40 but India's No1 rider has not come to Britain to supplement his pension fund... more

Trading fever has returned after only an 18-month gap

28.07.09
Two years back you only had to hit Marine Drive, Mumbai’s seaside esplanade, to sense the stock market madness. Every hundred metres you’d whizz past a giant billboard advertising this or that company’s flotation ... more

Darkest dawn of the century in longest solar eclipse

22.07.09
Longest solar eclipse of the 21st century plunges great swathes of Asia into near-darkness after dawn... more

Brothers who are kicking up a stink in row over gas

21.07.09
Hillary Clinton descended on the city for the weekend and brought gridlock in her wake. For some reason, the authorities thought shutting down key traffic lights a vital anti-terrorist measure - perhaps to entrap Al Qaeda operatives in a honking morass of black and yellow cabs... more

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