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Audio Archives

Pune and Kochi to join 2011 IPL
Pune and Kochi spend $700m between them buying Indian Premier League franchises for the 2011 season.
Afghan blast 'kills 10' in south
Ten people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials say.
Nepalese statesman Koirala dies
Nepal's four-time Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has died in Kathmandu, his aides and state TV say.
Taliban arrests halt UN contacts
Ex-UN envoy in Afghanistan says Pakistan's arrest of Taliban leaders halted a channel of secret UN communications.
Mumbai plotter sought by India
India says it will ask for access to a Chicago man who has pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
India and US unite over piracy
Film-makers in the US and India form a coalition to fight piracy in the South Asian nation, one of the biggest film markets
Scarlett Goa death trial begins
Two men appear in court accused of killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling, whose body was found in the Indian state of Goa in 2008.
Colombo police in Tamil unit move
Police stations in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, open special units to take statements in the country's main minority language, Tamil.
Indian children 'sacrifice' probe
Five children poisoned to death in a village in India may have been sacrificed, police say.
Clamp down on urinating in public ahead of the Delhi Commonwealth Games
The government of the Indian capital, Delhi is to soon tell the residents not or urinate or spit in public.
Is India's Maoist insurgency a doomed revolution?
Soutik Biswas on life in India
England face tough battle in Test
England reach 178-3 at close of play in the second Test, still 248 behind Bangladesh.
Imran critical of Pakistan set-up
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan says the country's cricket structure needs to be changed to help revive the fortunes of the national team.
Weed invasion
The creeper that is smothering an ecosystem
Spending pennies
Should the UK be paying for toilets in Mumbai's slums?
Goa justice
Will the world ever know the truth about Scarlett?
Security fears
But cricket fans still have fun at IPL game in Delhi
Statistic or story?
How Pakistan saw the kidnapping of Sahil Saeed
Stepping stone
Helping India's Muslims get into the best schools
No pardon for Sri Lankan general
Sri Lanka's president rules out an early pardon for defeated presidential rival Sarath Fonseka.
Kidnapped Sahil returns to the UK
Five-year-old Sahil Saeed returns to the family home in Oldham, as three people are charged with his kidnapping in Pakistan.
Civilians shot by Pakistan forces
Security forces shoot dead at least two civilians in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
Key al-Qaeda man 'died in strike'
A key al-Qaeda man, wanted for a deadly attack on a CIA base, was killed in a drone strike, US officials believe.
'Lost' Indian boy to return home
An Indian boy found abandoned in London two years ago can now return home after he is granted travel documents.
US man admits Mumbai role
US citizen David Headley changes his plea in a Chicago court and admits his role in the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008.