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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched work to build India's first high-speed train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. Mostly funded by a $17bn (£12.78bn) loan from Japan, the bullet train will run between Ahmedabad city and Mumbai. When the service starts operating in five years' time, the 500km (310-mile) journey time is expected to be cut to three hours from the current eight. Mr Abe is making a two-day visit to India, a close ally of Japan."My good friend Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a far-sighted leader. He took a decision two years ago to bring high-speed train in India and to create a new India," he said, after laying the foundation stone on Thursday."I hope to enjoy the beautiful scenery of India through the windows of the bullet train when I come back here in a few years." The 750-seat train is scheduled to run from August 2022. Does India need bullet trains? Japan and India sign bullet train deal amid closer ties India's railway system … [Read more...] about India launches first bullet train project

This is the hopeful moment a dog can be seen frantically trying to save her puppies from under a house when it collapsed on them in India.  The video was shared by Animal Aid Unlimited, a street animal rescue charity based in Rajasthan, India.  The video shows the dog frantically scratching under the house's foundations, gradually scratching deeper into the ground.  The man pulls a tiny puppy from the hole and puts it under the dog's nose so she can sniff it RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Animal rights groups hunt woman filmed stubbing out a... Mysterious illness kills dozens of dogs in Norway with... Share this article Share The pooch claws and bites through the ground to reach her two trapped puppies  A man helping the pooch can be seen moving large slabs out of the way to make it easier for the dog to dig.  After a minute or so, she stops digging and the man reaches in to clear some more dirt out of the way.  After a few seconds, … [Read more...] about Desperate dog claws through stone and rubble to rescue her puppies after a house collapsed on them in India

An Australian tourist in India has been beaten to within an inch of his life by an angry mob who accused him of drunkenly 'misbehaving' with women in their village. The Melbourne man was pictured bound and bloodied in hospital after being tied to a power pole and assaulted by the villagers in Karnakata state, in the country's south-west. The tourist, named in local media as William K James, 35, visited the village 15km from the town of Badami in an inebriated state after getting off a bus, police allege. Scroll down for video  Australian tourist in India (pictured bloodied and bound in hospital), named by local media as William K James, 35, has been beaten to within an inch of his life by a mob after they accused him of drunkenly 'misbehaving' with women in their village The victim (pictured in hospital) had been making his way by bus from Badami to the city of Bagalkot in the country's south-west when he started 'misbehaving' after deciding to get off at the village of … [Read more...] about Australian tourist, 35, is tied to a post and beaten to within an inch of his life by a furious mob in India who accuse him of stumbling into their village drunk and ‘misbehaving with women’

Batting depth The opening slots have not been that reliable. India do not have a top six as strong as they did in the Tendulkar-Dravid-Laxman era. They have a world class player at No 4 in Kohli and some good players who bat around him but they bat deeper than any other Indian side I have seen. If you look at England’s allrounders they are batting at four, five and six. The Indian allrounders are batting at seven, eight and nine. They are putting their allrounders down the order but England are putting them at the top. Jayant Yadav coming in at No 9 looks a tremendous batsman. What I like about their tailenders is they do not bat like tailenders. They bat like proper batsmen. They do not just... … [Read more...] about Four reasons why India are so hard to beat at the moment… and a couple that give England some hope

England are learning. India’s spinners shaped this series with the bat as much as ball: firstly it was the sensible runs of Ravi Ashwin, then the 90 by Ravi Jadeja in the third Test and the century by Jayant Yadav in the fourth which were the killer-blows. In this Test however England’s three spinners have trumped India’s by scoring 272 runs. Moeen Ali’s 146 looked as languorous as the heat of the tropics. India’s bowlers were then worn into Ashwin’s home ground by Liam Dawson and Adil Rashid in England’s first century partnership for the eighth wicket in India. Between the three of them, England’s spinners raised England’s self-respect and the spectre of India’s first defeat not only in this series but calendar year. Moeen had reached 100, and Rashid 50, in Tests before. Dawson on his debut battled for almost four hours to contribute an unbeaten 66. He became the third England player to reach 50 on his Test debut in this … [Read more...] about England’s spinners follow the lead of their India counterparts… with the bat