For many years now, Anil Jonko's life follows a simple routine.
He starts his day by offering prayers at his parents' grave in Chaibasa, a small village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand dominated by the Ho tribal community.
The 40-year-old (...)
Resolute rearguard action by Peter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh helped Australia escape with a remarkable draw against India on the final day of the third Test on Monday. Having conceded a 152-run first innings lead, the tourists were reeling when (...)
Cheteshwar Pujara compiled an epic double century and Wriddhiman Saha hit a career-best 117 to deflate Australia and put India in a strong position on the fourth day of the third Test Sunday.
Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja then brightened India's (...)
Top order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara compiled an industrious unbeaten century to keep India on course to match Australia's first-innings total of 451 in the third Test Saturday.
Australia paceman Pat Cummins made a successful return to Test cricket (...)
Opener Lokesh Rahul struck a fluent half-century to lead a strong Indian reply after Australia skipper Steve Smith's marathon knock helped the visitors post a formidable 451 in the third Test Friday.
The hosts were 120 for one at stumps in Ranchi, (...)
Australia captain Steve Smith struck a cultured unbeaten century to steer Australia to 299 for four wickets in the third Test against India on Thursday, signaling he has put the review controversy at Bengaluru behind him.
Smith's 117 not out is only (...)
Australian skipper Steve Smith accused his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli of talking "absolute rubbish" Wednesday despite efforts to bring an end to the archrivals' bitter war of words.
After Kohli said on the eve of the third Test that he had no (...)
New Zealand beat India by 19 runs in the fourth One-Day International to level the five-match series at 2-2 as the host suffered a mid-innings collapse here Wednesday.
Chasing 261 for a series-clinching win, India was all out for 241 with eight (...)
Swashbuckling opener Shikhar Dhawan struck his maiden Twenty20 fifty to help India to a crushing 69-run victory over the visiting Sri Lanka here Friday.
Put into bat on a flat pitch, Dhawan's blistering innings of 51 off just 25 ball enabled India (...)
Maoists shot dead two
mine officials and blew up railway tracks in India's east on
Monday, reacting to an imminent government offensive against
the rebels who are seen as the country's biggest internal
security threat, Reuters reported.
The (...)
India's Maoist guerrillas on Tuesday threatened to kill the country's prime minister and ruling party leader in what analysts said was the most aggressive threat yet from an increasingly lethal and widespread insurgency. The warning comes a month (...)
Maoist rebels, some armed with bows and arrows, briefly hijacked a train with around 500 passengers in eastern India on Wednesday in a show of strength on the eve of the second stage of India's general election.
About 300 Maoists boarded the train (...)
At least 20 people were killed in gun battles between police and Maoist insurgents in the eastern states of Jharkhand and Bihar on Wednesday, said officials, a day before the elections. Maoist rebels blocked roads in towns in the region to prevent (...)
Angry villagers in eastern India burned alive eight robbers and beat four others to death, police said on Thursday. About 20 robbers raided a remote village in Jharkhand state late on Wednesday, but they were surrounded by hundreds of villagers, who (...)
Police have beefed up security around India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni after he received extortion letters from a man claiming to be an associate of the country's most wanted gangster.
Police said on Wednesday they had sent more than 45 (...)
Suspected Maoist rebels
have killed seven people in eastern India in the past two days,
police said on Thursday.
More than 1,350 people have been killed in rebel-related
violence in Jharkhand state in the past seven years, officials
were quoted (...)
Maoist rebels in the
eastern Indian state of Jharkhand abducted six villagers
suspected of being police informers and killed them in a forest,
police said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
"Maoist rebels killed the villagers on suspicion of (...)
