Des O’Sullivan describes one of the highlight auctions of the year with contents from Lotabeg going under the hammer.

The house contents of Lotabeg — a time capsule of long-hidden antique delights — will be auctioned by Mealy’s in Cork next month.

Adam Matthews reports from "Knit City", the garment industry hub in India that generates billions in revenue but has also saturdated rivers with chemicals.

IT’S BECOME a bit of a tradition at the Ballymaloe Cookery School for the students to do a fundraiser during the term to support the East Cork Slow Food Education Project.

Ten people have been convicted over a 2004 fire that tore through a thatched-roof schoolhouse in India, killing 94 children.

Police in southern India have detained five construction company officials as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains.

Police in southern India detained two construction company directors as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains.

TWO new exciting eateries have opened in Cork in recent months; both are off the beaten track.

The Menu is a fierce man altogether for a bit of fire in the belly, most especially the Indian regional cooking styles from way down south and so hopes to be joining Bannu and Ruth, from Annam, a wonderful new Indian Supper Club and Cookery School in Douglas, Cork.

Iyer’s Cafe, 38, Pope’s Quay, Cork; tel: 087-6409079; Facebook: Iyer’s Cafe

Heavy rains triggered by a tropical storm have killed at least 22 people in the past four days in southern India, according to a government official.

A tropical storm weakened on Thursday after slamming into southern India, bringing heavy rain and a storm surge and displacing 150,000 people. Six deaths have been reported in India and Sri Lanka.

Thousands of people have moved to higher ground and schools and colleges have closed as a cyclone roared in the Bay of Bengal toward coastal areas, authorities in southern India have said.

A massive blaze has swept through a fireworks factory in India killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 others.

An Indian fisherman aboard a boat shot at by the US Navy off Dubai’s coast has told officials the crew received no warning before being fired upon, the Indian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates has said.

One British man is dead and another missing after reportedly being attacked by crocodiles on a river trip in India.

A massive earthquake off Indonesia triggered tsunami fears across the Indian Ocean today sending people in coastal cities fleeing to high ground.

A tsunami watch has been issued for countries across the Indian Ocean after a large earthquake hit waters off Indonesia, sending people pouring from their homes in panic.

At least 33 people were killed when heavy rains and winds unleashed by a cyclone over India's south-eastern coast damaged hundreds of homes and uprooted trees, officials and news reports said today.

At least 11 people have died as a cyclone brought heavy rains and gale-force winds to India’s south-eastern coast.

Seven people have died and dozens have been injured when a passenger train travelling through southern India collided with another train halted at a signal.

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.

A LANDSLIDE triggered by torrential seasonal rains killed more than 40 people in southern India.

A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains killed more than 40 people in southern India.

At least 32 people were killed when a blaze erupted at a fireworks warehouse in southern India ahead of a major Hindu festival.

A fire tore through a firecracker factory in southern India, killing at least 16 people and injuring an additional 25, reports confirmed today.

Clashes marred the final phase of India's parliamentary elections today, which left two people dead.

Voting for the fifth and final phase of parliamentary elections in India began today.

A 72-YEAR-OLD Co Cork man has rowed the length of the River Shannon to raise funds for an Indian boy born without legs or arms.

A CHEAP method to detect cervical cancer using vinegar, cotton gauze and a bright light could save millions of women in the developing world, experts reported yesterday.

University authorities said they will not name those killed until all of them have been identified and their families informed.

An Indian professor was one of the victims killed in a massacre at a US university, his relatives told Indian media today, while another Indian student was missing.

A jeep exploded in a South Indian village today, killing 16 people and injuring 22 more, a senior police official said.

WOMEN who survived the 2004 Asian tsunami face heightened risks of violence, impoverishment and lack of privacy at relief camps in several nations, a report has said.

AN ASIAN Games silver medallist has failed a sex test and will be stripped of her medal.

A passenger train crashed into an auto-rickshaw at an unmanned railway crossing in southern India today, killing all 16 people in the rickshaw, a news report said.

A senior Tamil Tiger leader has apologised to India for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a Tiger suicide bomber.

The Da Vinci Code has been banned in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu following calls for it to remain unseen by local Christian leaders.

AT least 100 people were killed when flames engulfed a crowded trade fair in the north Indian city of Meerut, police said.

THOUSANDS of flood victims waiting in line for relief vouchers stampeded into a government-run distribution centre in southern India yesterday, killing at least 42 people and injuring 37.

Thousands of flood victims waiting in line for relief vouchers stampeded into a government-run distribution centre in southern India today, killing at least 42 people and injuring another 30, police said.