· Milne vaults 26 places to a career-high 13th in latest MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for T20I Bowlers; Mustafizur rockets 78 places to a career-best 37th · New Zealand moves ahead of South Africa and Pakistan to fifth spot, Bangladesh drops behind Scotland to 11th position · Opportunity for both Australia and India to […]
Sydney, Australia cricket coach Darren Lehmann has been hospitalised with Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) here on Saturday. Lehmann reported a swollen left calf to the team’s medical staff ahead of the fifth One Day International (ODI) against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground and was immediately referred for a scan that revealed the issue. The […]
Darjeeling, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wondered why no DNA test was done to determine if the ashes kept at a temple in Japan after the purported 1945 air crash were of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and sought to know whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi broached the issue of the revolutionary leader’s […]
Mumbai, Security agencies went on high alert following a threat to blow up Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, official sources said on Saturday. The threat was made by an unidentified caller who spoke to a woman official in Hindi around 6 p.m. The caller reportedly said the Mumbai airport would be blown up before February […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s Excise Minister K. Babu on Saturday handed over his resignation to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, after a court ordered a case against him for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.50 lakh to permit closed bars to continue to function. Babu said it was the “result of a conspiracy” hatched by the opposition CPI-M […]
New Delhi/Bengaluru, All 14 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) terror outfit, who were picked up by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in cooperation with state police forces from different parts of the country, have been formally arrested, official sources said on Saturday. Till Friday, only five of the total 14 were arrested and […]
New Delhi, Ending decades of wait, the Indian government on Saturday declassified the first set of 100 files on revolutionary leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, whose whereabouts after a reported air crash continues to be a mystery even after 70 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had announced during a meeting with Netaji’s family members […]
Melbourne, World No.1 Serena Williams easily qualified on Friday for the fourth round of the Australian Open after beating Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-1 in just 44 minutes. Williams, the top seed and title holder, will face another Russian player Margarita Gasparyan, who defeated Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-3 and 6-4 in 91 minutes. Williams aims […]
New Delhi,Five suspected members of terror outfit Islamic State (IS) were arrested and nine others detained by the NIA in cooperation with state police agencies across India, a home ministry official said on Friday. Informed sources said all the raids at 12 locations in six cities were conducted on tip-offs that the IS sympathisers were […]
New Delhi, Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning caused by anxiety drug Alprax, the final report by AIIMS medical board said. All India Institute of Medical Sciences experts also said there could be chances of an injectable poison, in view of certain marks on Sunanda’s body. The report – submitted to the Delhi police earlier this […]