Pakistan leg spinner Danish Kaneria took five for 62 to help bowl Sri Lanka out for 233 on an action-packed second day of the third Test on Tuesday. Kaneria, playing his first game of the series, bowled superbly to give Pakistan a 66-run first-innings lead.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat against India in their Asia Cup ODI.
A three-judge bench of Justices B N Aggrawal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam passed the direction after senior counsel Altaf Ahmed appearing for Anand submitted that the alleged tapes showing the sting operation were doctored and edited to implicate him and Khan.
Former Pakistan captains Ramiz Raja and Intikhab Alam have urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to review its rules to make sure countries do not pick and choose tours.
The chief of Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami was on Tuesday sentenced to death along with two of his associates for a 2004 grenade attack on the then British envoy to Dhaka that killed three people. A trial court tribunal set up in Sylhet, 190 km northeast of Dhaka, sentenced HuJI leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and two other members of the terrorist outfit Shahid Shahidul Alam and Delwar Hossain Ripon to death by hanging.
Shane Warne's midas touch to minnows Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL season may be a part of cricketing folklore but a new book reveals that the Australian spin legend was not the original choice for captaincy.
Police have registered an FIR against six people under blasphemy law on the complaint of Mahinder Paal Singh, a resident of Multan district of Punjab.
India won the toss and opted to bat against Pakistan in the second match of the triangular one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday. India have included uncapped batsman Yusuf Pathan in the team for their first match of the tournament.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the proceedings in a trial court over the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter by the Gujarat police
Nine years after seven RDX bombs kept in Mumbai suburban trains exploded killing 188 people, a Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court is likely to pronounce its verdict on Friday.
Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu entered the second round, but it was a disappointing day for India's men as two of them made an early exit from the Malaysia Open Super Series Premier badminton, in Shah Alam, on Wednesday.
'A probable positive patient walking into a centre is not an ideal situation.'
Pakistan hockey team's disastrous performance in the Beijing Olympics has taken another toll with coach Naved Alam following chief coach Khawaja Zakauddin in stepping down from his post. Announcing his resignation, Alam said the Olympic debacle is a collective failure and the federation should not start a witch hunt of senior players.
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Aftab Alam also issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a petition filed by Zakhir Hussain Noor Sheikh, who was sentenced to death by the Mumbai Terrorist And Disruptive Activity (prevention) court.The petitioner contended in his appeal that the TADA court had failed to appreciate that there was no evidence against him, showing his involvement in the conspiracy.
The issue related to the petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission, which sought transfer of the trial of the riots' cases outside Gujarat and re-investigation by an independent agency. The NHRC had filed the petition after several witnesses turned hostile amidst allegations of threat, coercion and inducement to derail the investigation.AA three-member bench said it would pass necessary orders on Wednesday for constituting the SIT.
