India hanged a Kashmiri man on Saturday for an attack on the
country's parliament in 2001, sparking clashes in Kashmir
between protesters and police who wielded batons and fired
teargas. Dozens of people were injured.
Britain will stop giving financial aid to India by 2015, the
government says, marking a shift in ties between the one-time
imperial power and its fast-growing former colony.
A speeding bus has veered off the road and fallen into a
pond, killing at least 14 schoolchildren in the southern
Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, police said.
Shane Watson made a triumphant return by captaining Australia
to an emphatic 87-run victory over India on Sunday and
ensuring the hosts a place in the final of the one-day
international Tri-series.
India made heavy weather of a modest run chase before
securing a four-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in the
second match of the triangular series at Perth on Wednesday.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni may be rueing his decision
to bat first in the second test against Australia at the
Sydney Cricket Ground, after opener Gautam Gambhir was out in
the first over of play today.
India, even if you won't hear them say it, have never had a
better chance of clinching their first test series triumph in
Australia than over the next month against a host nation in
the turmoil of transition.
