”New Delhi” News

Cricketer Boje denies link to match-fixing scam in 2000

NEW DELHI (AFP) - South African bowler Nicky Boje on Tuesday denied charges of match-fixing under questioning by Indian police probing the scandal which hit cricket seven years ago, officials said.
12 12 2007 7:17AM (...more)

Boje denies link to match-fixing scam in 2000

NEW DELHI (AFP) - South African bowler Nicky Boje on Tuesday denied charges of match-fixing under questioning by Indian police probing the scandal which hit cricket seven years ago, officials said.
12 12 2007 4:35AM (...more)

Rioting in Delhi over school sex scandal

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Police clashed with angry residents in New Delhi on Thursday after a mob damaged a state school following a TV report that accused a female teacher of prostituting girl students.
09 2 2007 11:08PM (...more)

High wire thrills for India's heritage tourists

NEEMRANA, India (AFP) – High above the tranquil lawns of a 15th-century hillside fort, a man flew through the air attached to a steel wire. "There goes the British high commissioner ," said one of
01 25 2009 9:11PM (...more)

India get rousing welcome after victory in Australia

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India 's cricketers arrived from Australia on Thursday to a grand welcome after their one-day tri-series triumph over the top-ranked home team.
03 7 2008 4:17AM (...more)

Paulson: India gets more investors with fewer rules

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday India needs to open its economy to foreign investment to help finance its growth rather than restrict flows of capital into the country.
10 25 2007 4:28AM (...more)

Report: Indian rebel killings unpunished

NEW DELHI - India's government has failed to fully investigate and prosecute officials who allegedly took part in thousands of killings and disappearances during a counterinsurgency campaign against separatists in northern India, rights groups said Thursday.
10 18 2007 6:56PM (...more)

Worldwide anti-poverty campaign

NAIROBI, Kenya - Schoolchildren in a Kenyan slum belted out a Bob Marley ballad Wednesday as they joined a continent-spanning effort to draw attention to the crushing poverty that campaigners say contributes to tens of thousands of needless deaths each day.
10 18 2007 5:34PM (...more)

India's elderly fear for future

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Eighty-seven-year-old Indrani Warner sits in her room at one of India 's new homes for the elderly surrounded by the mementos of a lifetime.
10 18 2007 10:00AM (...more)

India need 'miracle' to host Games - report

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India are so behind schedule that it will take a "miracle" for New Delhi to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010, a leading newspaper claimed on Wednesday. Budgets are skyrocketing and the infrastructure is coming up at a snail's pace for the
02 21 2009 5:14AM (...more)