Low-caste Indian groups protesting the desecration of their leader’s statue burned train cars, buses and clashed with police in western India today in violence that left at least two people dead and 40 injured, police said.

IRISH newspaper and publishing group Independent News & Media (INM) expects cost cuts and rising advertising revenue from growing markets to boost its operating margin to 20% by mid-2007, top executives said on Friday.

INDEPENDENT News & Media (INM) confirmed yesterday it is to buy a 26% stake in Indian newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan for a modest €25.5 million.

Village officials in northern India are searching for a teenage girl who was dragged away by a python.

Mosquito-borne viruses dengue fever and encephalitis have killed 223 people in India’s largest state in three months.

Thousands of police were on alert across India’s most populated state today as millions voted in a second round of polling that has already seen gun battles between party supporters.

Seven doctors at an Indian hospital have contracted HIV while treating infected patients in emergency wards.

Ten people have died in religious riots between Indian security forces and Muslim protesters sparked by the destruction of two ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan.