A major new protest is to be staged by Blackburn fans against the club’s hierarchy ahead of Saturday’s Barclays Premier League home match against Aston Villa, it has been announced.

A major new protest is to be staged by Blackburn fans against the club’s hierarchy ahead of Saturday’s Barclays Premier League home match against Aston Villa, it has been announced.

Blackburn owners Venky’s are continuing their root and branch evaluation of the club as they seek to discover the best structure for the future.

Blackburn’s owners Venky’s admit they are worried about the threat of relegation but remain positive the club will survive in the Barclays Premier League.

Blackburn owners Venky’s have denied manager Steve Kean’s job is under threat after a run of three Barclays Premier League defeats in four matches.

Blackburn owners Venky’s have moved to dismiss reports linking the club with a move for AC Milan forward Ronaldinho, describing them as “just rumours”.

Sam Allardyce has apologised to Blackburn's travelling support for his side's woeful display at Manchester United yesterday.

BLACKBURN manager Sam Allardyce has welcomed news of the club’s takeover, but accepts he will have to spend wisely.

Indian company Venky’s today completed its takeover of Blackburn Rovers.

Authorities in southern India put military forces on alert today as a tropical storm approaches a coastal region already pummelled by several days of heavy rains that have left 22 people dead and displaced 30,000.

Two teenage students were accidentally shot dead during a police weapons demonstration in India.

India and Pakistan held wide-ranging discussions today about terrorism, Kashmir and other disputes in the first talks between them since the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

Protesters set buses on fire and clashed with police over India's decision to carve a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh.

At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in the busy centre of Kabul as commuters arrived for work today, officials said.

Police in India have arrested a young couple for allegedly killing seven family members by poisoning and strangling them for objecting to a same-clan marriage.

Sonia Gandhi, the head of India’s ruling Congress party, is being treated in a New Delhi hospital for a chest infection, a hospital official said today.

Torrential rains and thunder storms have killed at least 58 people in southern India and flooded dozens of villages, officials said today.

An Indian imam told today how two brothers suspected over the failed UK terror attacks turned away from mainstream Islam and became more radicalised.

Indian investigators have seized a computer hard drive belonging to the man suspected of ramming a Jeep into Glasgow airport in a failed terror attack, a senior police official said today.

India’s international carrier, Air India, has threatened to ground overweight cabin staff unless they shed their excess pounds.

Thousands of people today prepared to move to higher ground as a cyclone with a wind speed of up to 60 MPH moved toward India’s southern coast, a state government official said.

AN AIDS epidemic is “galloping” through impoverished Papua New Guinea, spread by polygamous marriages and inadequate government health and education programmes, United Nations officials warn.

Even as the people of the isolated Andaman and Nicobar islands told harrowing tales of fending off starvation and hungry crocodiles thrown ashore by the towering tsunami, they vowed today to go back to their tiny islands and start all over again.

Rescuers followed the stench of death to find rotting bodies in jungles on India’s remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where thousands are believed to have died, while people fled their homes today amid warnings of possible new tsunamis following fresh quakes.

Paramedics today began vaccinating more than 65,000 refugees in the south of India as authorities rushed aid to survivors of the tsunami that killed at least 4,400 people in India and left 8,000 missing, many of them feared dead, officials said.

An Indian archipelago was jolted by aftershocks from the massive weekend quake today, as emergency aid reached survivors of the tsunamis that killed 4,413 people and left 8,000 missing -many of them probably dead.

A string of Indian islands were rattled by aftershocks today while emergency aid was rushed to survivors of the tsunami waves that killed at least 4,300 people along the nation’s south-eastern coast.

Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who set in motion the nation’s economic liberalisation more than a decade ago, died today. He was 83.

At least 40 people, mostly women, have lost vision in one or both eyes after free cataract surgery at a state run hospital in southern India.

India took a small step back from the brink of war today and lifted a ban on Pakistan civilian aircraft flying over its air space.

A young man allegedly axed to death five members of his family and seriously wounded three others after he tested positive for the virus that causes Aids, Indian police said.