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NEW DELHI - India will look to wrap up a convincing victory over rock-bottom Netherlands in the World Cup on Wednesday and virtually make sure of their quarter-final berth. India are the only team who have yet to taste defeat in their group and that record is unlikely to be broken against the under-performing Dutch who have still to register a win. The host nation are on top of Group B with five points. England have as many points but have played a game more and have a worse run rate

NAGPUR - Ticket-hungry fans, desperate to see India's World Cup clash against South Africa on Saturday, were baton-charged by police as they queued, witnesses said on Tuesday. The clashes happened outside the Vidarbha Cricket Association offices, as police struggled to control the crowds, witnesses said. Fans started queuing on Monday, a day before the counters opened for the sale of tickets for the first World Cup game involving India in the Orange City since 1987.
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NEW DELHI - Dutch captain Peter Borren has conceived an intriguing recipe to upstage India on Wednesday which requires borrowing Ireland's discipline, backing it with home-grown talent and then leaving it to the game's vagaries. On paper, the World Cup Group B contest looks a mis-match featuring tournament favourites India and a Dutch squad, which is essentially made up of a handful of professionals and a host of amateurs trying to make an impact in one-day cricket's biggest stage.

NEW DELHI - India go into their World Cup match against the Netherlands Wednesday sitting on top of Group B and look certain to qualify for the quarter-finals but with lingering doubts over their bowling attack. The host nation have won two of their three matches for a total of five points, the same number as England and one ahead of West Indies and South Africa. But while India's powerful batting line-up has been firing, there are fears that the bowling does not have the strength

LAHORE - European countries are being used as hot destinations by al Qaeda to route money to India, Indian newspaper The Hindustan Times quoted a report by Peruvian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) - disclosed by WikiLeaks - as stating. The report stated that the FIU had found at least one such suspicious transaction by al Qaeda every month and shared them with investigators from the United States.
"The FIU also reports tracking cases similar to that of an OFAC-designated (US

LAHORE - Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif believes that Pakistan will face South Africa or England in its next round encounter. "Pakistan may play South Africa or England in quarter-finals," said Rashid Latif, current coach of the Afghanistan team. "We can now say India and Pakistan are the clear favourites of this World Cup, but Pakistan will be the team to beat."
Latif has coached some of the players in the present Pakistan team after hanging up his boots as the country's

BANGALORE - Giant-killing Ireland have vowed to play aggressive cricket in Sunday's World Cup match against India as they attempt to add the host nation to their list of scalps. The non-Test-playing nation provided the shock of the tournament to stun England by three wickets on Wednesday and all-rounder John Mooney said they would adopt the same fearless approach in Bangalore. "Our expectations going into the India game will be the same and we will go all out. Every game we play, we

JAMMU - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday he was approaching new peace talks with Pakistan with an "open mind", saying all disputes, including the long-running feud over Indian-held Kashmir, would be discussed.
New Delhi and Islamabad announced on February 10 that they would resume full peace talks which were suspended more than two years ago. "We wish to resolve all outstanding issues between the two countries through friendly dialogue and constructive and

KARACHI - Pakistan has lifted ban on import of plants/machineries used to make bio-products for the value addition of rice from India. According to sources, the Federal Cabinet in its recently held meetings has approved the release of ban on import of Rice Braun Oil (RBO) plants from India to ensure the value addition of Pakistani exportable rice.
This step, sources said, was taken by the government after the recent visit of President Asif Ali Zardai to Japan where Pakistani

NEW DELHI - India is opposed to a no-fly zone or the use of force in Libya, and other major developing nations have "reservations", a top Indian foreign ministry official said in remarks published on Friday. "As of now we are not in favour of a no-fly zone. We are opposed to use of force," foreign secretary Nirupama Rao told The Hindu newspaper. "Among BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries, questions have been raised and reservations expressed," she said. India is a temporary

LAHORE - The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry welcomed the Federal Government decision to allow import of rice bran edible oil extraction machinery from India and termed it a step towards right direction that is bound to expedite business activities in the country.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, the LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik said that the Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, Federal Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Federal Secretary Zafar

ISLAMABAD - The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Tuesday allowed import of 7 more items from India to improve the competitiveness of the local industrial sector, increasing the total of importable items to 1,942. The items added to the list were raw material and machinery not manufactured in India including tools for tapping threads, plant and machinery for extraction and refining of rice barn oil, laboratory testing equipment,

LAHORE - India has agreed in principle to allow an investigating team from Pakistan to question Mumbai witnesses of the 2008 terror attack, Home minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday, but added that Pakistan was yet to reply in kind regarding India's request of questioning people accused of conspiring and helping the terrorist execute the attack.
"We have agreed that they should come to India to record the evidence (about the Mumbai attack)," Chidambaram told reporters, "but we

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power was informed Monday that India was taking advantage of the flaws in the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) to build dams on the rivers allotted to Pakistan under the deal. The representatives of the Ministry of Water and Power told the committee that they were keeping an eye on the India's designs to build dams on the Chenab River while steps were under consideration to curtail the violations of the treaty.
The committee, which

BANGALORE - India and England tied a thrilling World Cup clash here on Sunday in a match which yielded 676 runs and was adorned by blistering centuries from Sachin Tendulkar and Andrew Strauss. England, chasing a World Cup record 339 to win, finished on 338 for eight having scored 13 off the last over when 14 were needed for victory.
Zaheer Khan's dramatic three-wicket burst turned the match back in India's favour after England captain Strauss's man-of-the-match winning innings

ISLAMABAD - Backed by the Obama administration, India is strongly urging Pakistan for the inclusion of Afghanistan as an issue in the agenda of Indo-Pak peace dialogue that was resumed recently after months of suspension in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008.
Pakistan and India resumed the peace process after the talks between their foreign secretaries early this month in Thimphu (Bhutan). A statement released simultaneously in Islamabad and New Delhi after the

BANGALORE - India look set to beef up their spin options for their blockbuster clash against England on Sunday as both sides face the first major Test of their World Cup credentials. India, strongly fancied to add a second World Cup trophy to their 1983 success, are expected to go into the day-night match with a second specialist spinner in addition to their clutch of part-timers.
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla looks likely to join off-spinner Harbhajan Singh at the expense of paceman