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Miffed at being snubbed by the International Cricket Committee over various recent decisions, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is mulling at the possibility of pulling out of next year's Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in England. The BCCI has reportedly been angry with...

Afghanistan have a new home ground - in India. On Thursday, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and the BCCI signed an MoU with the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority to use the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex as their home ground. According to a BCCI release, the ICC...

Opposition NLD wins 35 of first 36 seats declared Ruling party acting chairman says: ‘We have more losses than wins’ ‘I think you know the outcome,’ Suu Kyi leader tells jubilant party Her party spokesman expects to win 80% of the vote Poll ‘far from perfect,’ says John Kerry Read the latest...

Bahubali released this morning and has been receiving some rave reviews form the critics. The film started off with a good opening occupancy in India and it is hard to believe that it has already begun to take overseas by storm. The film’s Telugu version has collected a massive$1.3 million in...

NEW DELHI: Riding on two goals from drag flicker Jasjit Singh and PR Sreejesh's terrific form under the bar, India edged a spirited Malaysian side 3-2 to book a place in the semi-final of the Hockey World League Semi-Final 2015 at Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday. As it happened: India vs Malaysia...

Tokyo: India-born former Google executive Nikesh Arora has been appointed the president of Japan's telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp that paid the "rising star" a whopping $135 million (Rs 850.5 crore at 1 dollar = 63 rupees) for the financial year 2014. Mr Arora, 47, who earlier held the...

Paris/London: India has the lowest income inequality among all emerging economies, but it is much higher than most of the advanced economies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday. The countries with higher income gap than India include Russia, China...

Bettering its own financial targets, the government has contained the fiscal deficit at 4% of GDP for 2014-15 at Rs 5,01,880 crore. The revenue deficit has also been confined to 2.8%, beating the budget target of 2.9% for the last fiscal, the Finance Ministrysaid in a statement today. The...

South Africa have stretched their lead at the top of the ICC Test Team Rankings, while India and New Zealand both moved upwards to occupy three of the top four positions in the table after the latest annual update. With the results from the 2011-12 season now dropped from calculations and...

ISLAMABAD: Notwithstanding the government’s repeated claims, health indicators in the country are on a downhill side. A report released on Tuesday said Pakistan’s ranking in the ‘Mother Mortality Ratio (MMR)’ had slipped from 147th last year to 149. Moreover, except Afghanistan, all the...

New Delhi: The Indian cricket team will tour Bangladesh next month for a one-off Test and three ODIs, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Monday. The one-off Test will take place between June 10 and 14 at Fatullah while the ODIs will be played on June 18, 21 and 24 in Mirpur...

Iran has announced its readiness to cooperate with Russia, China and India on the issue of NATO’s missile shield and related threats from the military bloc, the head of its defense ministry said in Moscow. “I'd like to support the idea of developing multifaceted defense cooperation between...

In an unprecedented gesture that seals the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a global statesman, US President Barack Obama on Thursday wrote a piece for the prestigious Time magazine calling him India's "reformer-in-chief". The 166-word piece, written as part of the Time magazine's...

22 Year old Left Arm Spinner Raza Hassan is banned for two years and he will not be able to play any official cricket after his doping test results were positive. The WADA accredited laboratory in India has confirmed that Hassan has been using cocaine to enhance his performances According to a...

Tehran - Iran has reportedly proposed a free trade agreement with India to boost bilateral trade and investment. The matter has been raised during the recent visit of India's Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher to Tehran, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. He was here for the first meeting of...

As the international community cheered for the results of marathon talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Lausanne, foreign investors have been preparing their groundwork to get an early foothold in perhaps the last untapped big frontier market, Iran. Among them, a long overdue program between...

NEW DELHI: In a fine gesture, Hockey India (HI) on Saturday offered financial help to their Pakistan counterpart after the national hockey federation of the neighbouring country suspended a training camp because it could not pay its players and coaches daily allowances. The Pakistan Hockey...

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Irfan has been ruled out of the World Cup with a stress fracture of the pelvis. Pakistan's team management will call for a replacement only if the team wins Friday's quarter-final, against Australia in Adelaide. Injured Mohammad Irfan out of World Cup | Cricket |...

February 13, 1996. Australia and West Indies cited security reasons and declined to visit Sri Lanka for their league matches. India and Pakistan, co-hosts of World Cup 1996, sent a combined team to Sri Lanka to play against the hosts, thereby sending a message to the sceptics. Abhishek Mukherjee...

“There’s an app for everything” or so the saying goes. Well, as the World Cup enters its third week, we decided to apply that principle to its leading teams, by asking ourselves a simple question: what if a World Cup team was an App? We took into consideration history, mystery (misery in some...