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DEHLI - Bhola Nath does not care much for India's growth story. Not when the 65-year-old migrant brick kiln worker has stopped buying onions and garlic, key food staples for Indian families, and manages to save just 1,000 rupees ($22) per month. Five of his fellow workers whose 12 hour shifts heating bricks at the kiln earn them 150 rupees ($3) per day seconded the remark.
This group of migrant labourers represent a microcosm of the country's vast underprivileged, who feel they

Anil Kapoor is irritated with people making castles in the air about the sequel to his 1987 sci-fi hit "Mr. India" and says rather than talking, we should start the project.
"We have all been talking about it and I think more than talking, we should start working on it. There is nothing we can talk about it as of now you know. It is completely blank. We should get going," Anil told.
To be produced by Boney Kapoor, the Part II is going to be shot in 3D. While Anil and Sridevi

NEW DELHI - One of the chief organisers of the inaugural Indian Grand Prix has resigned barely nine months before the country hosts the Formula One race, the promoters said on Monday,
Mark Hughes, a former number two at the Bahrain circuit, who was a key figure in building the Indian facility over the past 12 months, left his post a month ago "due to personal reasons", the promoters said.
"Mark Hughes is no longer working with us. He left due to his own personal reasons,"

CENTURION - Yusuf Pathan's blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs on Sunday to take the series 3-2. Morne Morkel bagged four wickets and Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe two apiece for the hosts who dismissed India for 234.
India had been set a Duckworth/Lewis revised target of 268 to win in 46 overs following a rain delay. India were in desperate trouble at 119 for eight before Pathan resurrected

LAHORE - The Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Skiing Federation Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman congratulated the ski team on winning one gold, three silver and a bronze medal in the Alpine and Cross-country Skiing Championship. "They put up a good display at the Winter Games and need to be encouraged," he said. "Winning medals from among all the SAARC nations is in itself a great achievement," he added. The national ski team arrived back after a successful stint at the 1st South

CAPE TOWN - A burst of powerful hitting by Yusuf Pathan spurred India to a thrilling two-wicket win in the third one-day international against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday.
Chasing a target of 221, India were struggling at 93 for five before Pathan launched a savage assault against South African off-spinners Johan Botha and JP Duminy. On a pitch where most batsmen found it difficult to play positive strokes, Pathan, making his first appearance in the series, struck 59 off

LAHORE - Former foreign minister and Chairman of Steering Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Like-Minded Group, Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri left for New Delhi on Wednesday to attend an international symposium on Indo-Pak relations. According to details, Kasuri, who is known as an expert on foreign affairs, will attend a seminar titled 'Evolution of Pakistan-India relations in first decade of the 21st Century'.
The Indian Council of World Affairs especially invited

NEW DELHI - India has hit out at Pakistan for pursuing terrorism as an "instrument of state policy", saying such a strategy was "flawed and self-defeating".
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is likely to meet her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Thimphu on the sidelines of a SAARC committee meeting, said "Some countries presume that they can pursue terrorism as an instrument of state policy without risks to themselves or to their standing in the international

MUMBAI - Indian cotton prices are likely to extend last week's gains to hit a record high, lifted by strong demand from exporters to fulfil their exports obligations and as overseas markets jump, dealers said. "Exporters were very active in the spot market. Arrivals were there, but quality fibre was in short-supply," said a senior official at Gujarat State Cooperative Cotton Federation. India's cotton export deadline will expire on Feb. 25 for the remaining unshipped quantity of the

MUMBAI - India will gamble on the fitness of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Praveen Kumar after the four injured players were included in the final 15-member squad on Monday for next month's World Cup.
Regular openers Sehwag and Gambhir and paceman Kumar missed the current five-match one-day international series against South Africa through injury while Tendulkar hurt his hamstring in Saturday's second match and returned home. "Injuries are part of

ISLAMABAD - In its proposals sent to India before the forthcoming foreign secretaries' meeting in Bhutan, Pakistan has urged India to resume negotiations on all outstanding issues rather than confining the dialogue to terrorism alone.
"Pakistan wants the resumption of composite dialogue as was the case before November 2008 when the Indo-Pak talks came to a halt after the terrorist attack on Mumbai. This was conveyed to New Delhi formally in a set of proposals handed over through

JOHANNESBURG - India made an astonishing recovery to snatch a one-run victory over South Africa in the second one-day international at the Wanderers Stadium on Saturday to level the five-match series at one match each.
Munaf Patel took two wickets in what proved to be the final over to finish with four for 29, with Yuvraj Singh taking a low catch at gully to end the match when Wayne Parnell cut powerfully in an attempt to score the winning runs. South Africa seemed in control

ISLAMABAD - The government has decided to appoint Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir as high commissioner to India while Pakistani Ambassador in Germany Shahid Kamal would be appointed as foreign secretary. Online sources said Kamal had served as ambassador in Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Rialto, adding that it had been decided that Administration Additional Secretary Ishtiaq Hussain Andrabi would be appointed as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He will replace Umar Khan Ali Sherzai whose

JOHANNESBURG - Lonwabo Tsotsobe produced career-best bowling figures of four for 22 as South Africa bowled out India for 190 in the second one-day international at the Wanderers Stadium on Saturday.
The tall left-arm opening bowler took four for 22 to lead a superb performance by the South African bowlers and fielders after India won the toss and batted on what is usually a high-scoring ground.
It was an outstanding follow-up by Tsotsobe, who was named man of the match

NEW DELHI - Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai said on Friday the country was planning to reduce its security forces by 25 percent in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) in order to ease conditions for the local people in one of the world's most militarised areas, but India's Army chief ruled out any reduction in forces in IHK, AFP reported.
Speaking at a university seminar on IHK in the Indian capital, Pillai said the government was looking at cutting troops by "25 percent in 12 months from

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India are engaged in intense back channel diplomacy for the success of the forthcoming meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries early next month, which could pave the way for the revival of the stalled peace process.
The peace process between the two rivals came to a halt after the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 as New Delhi charged Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba for the attacks.
"Since the Mumbai attacks, the US, UK and other

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will address India's quantity restriction on cotton exports and will urge them to reciprocate their contractual sanctity as already shown by Pakistan on the onion exports issue.
According to official sources, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi provided this assurance to a delegation of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA), led by Textile Minister Rana Farooq Saeed Khan, here on Friday. The minister said that the issue would be taken up with the