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South Africa 306-4 v India (76) - lunch

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - South Africa were 306-4 at lunch in reply to India 's first innings total of 76 on the second day of the second test on Friday.
04 8 2008 2:36PM (...more)

Defiant Ganguly digs in for India

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - India 's Saurav Ganguly thwarted South Africa 's charge for victory in the second test with an undefeated half century on Saturday.
04 8 2008 2:33PM (...more)

Ishant, Munaf in India squad for third South Africa test

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - India bolstered their bowling attack for next week's third and final test against South Africa by including fit-again paceman Ishant Sharma and recalling medium-pacer Munaf Patel to a 16-man squad on Sunday.
04 8 2008 12:58PM (...more)

Gavaskar slams player commitment after South Africa rout

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar has questioned the commitment of some players in the India squad following the side's crushing second test defeat to South Africa in Ahmedabad.
04 8 2008 5:28AM (...more)

Mizoram faces famine after plague of rats

SATEEK, India (Reuters) - About a million people in Mizoram are facing famine after a plague of rats ate the region's entire paddy crop, officials and aid agencies said on Monday.
03 18 2008 2:15AM (...more)

Sensex provisionally closes down 6.5 pct

BANGALORE (Reuters) - India 's main stock index provisionally fell 6.47 percent on Monday, tailing a global equities rout, with index heavyweights ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries leading the losses.
03 18 2008 1:10AM (...more)

Govt details funding plans for farm debt write-off

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government on Friday gave more details of how it will fund an ambitious scheme to write off the debt of millions of small farmers, saying it will in July release to banks 250 billion rupees ($6.25 billion) in cash.
03 15 2008 6:50PM (...more)

Rubbish piles up as strike hits airports

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Piles of rubbish littered airports in India and toilets lay dirty as a nation-wide strike by airport workers affected most of the 127 centres around the country for a second day on Thursday.
03 14 2008 2:37AM (...more)

Sensex trims gain to under 1 pct on weak data

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian shares trimmed their rise to under 1 percent on Wednesday after weaker-than-expected industrial output data, having been up as much as 3.5 percent in morning trade.
03 13 2008 2:25AM (...more)

Weak UAE dirham deterring Indian workers - report

DUBAI (Reuters) - Many Indian construction workers are choosing not to take jobs in Dubai because their earnings would be eroded by the UAE dirham's peg to the tumbling U.S. dollar, Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) reported.
03 8 2008 11:38PM (...more)