New Delhi, Dec 27 (PTI) The Ferozeshah Kotla stood
disgraced on Sunday after the fifth and final India-Sri Lanka
ODI was abandoned following visiting captain Kumar

The nearly 45,000 spectators could watch just 23.3 overs
with the Sri Lankans reeling at 83 for five before the game

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) swung
into action by disbanding its Grounds and Pitches Committee,
headed by Daljit Singh.

Bhubaneswar, Dec 27 (PTI) The ratio of Indians living
below the poverty line is steadily declining and the decline
rate even higher on the changed criteria of defining the

The Tendulkar Committee found that if the new criteria
were to be plotted against the 1993 data, about 45 per cent of
Indians were under BPL in that year. That figure, would be

Bhubaneswar, Dec 27 (PTI) With growth expected at little
over seven per cent this fiscal, Indian economy is slowly
gathering momentum that is essential to fight poverty, Indian

On the impact of economic reforms on poverty, the Prime
Minister said opening up of the Indian economy has had no
adverse impact on the poor and the percentage of population

Jaipur/New Delhi, Dec 27 (PTI) The young Indian stowaway
who hid in a toilet on an Air India Haj charter flight
carrying 273 passengers from Saudi Arabia to return to his

Patna, Dec 27 (PTI) In good news for fans of George
Orwell, the author of one of last century's best dystopian
novels '1984' and 'Animal Farm', Bihar government in eastern

Mumbai, Dec 27 (PTI) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio
Hatoyama arrived here on Sunday on his first official visit to
India.