Kew Gardens on an English spring morning will host the first in a series of celebrations on Wednesday to commemorate the 100 days' countdown to the London Olympics.
For a leg-spinner coming from the land of Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and pilloried in initial years for not being able to turn his leg-breaks or possessing a googly, Anil Kumble ended his 18-year career with a massive haul of 619 Test and 337 ODI wickets.
Virat Kohli will face the toughest battle of his fledgling captaincy career when India take on a resurgent Australia in the second cricket Test.
20 years ago this week, India and Australia played one of the greatest Test matches in cricket history. Sreehari Nair relives the sound and the fury of that unforgettable game at the Eden Gardens.
The destinations have a lot to offer in terms of adventure, culture and entertainment.
From Srinagar to Goa, we'll tell you the places to head to this month.
Saha has enough time to be fit for India's next Test assignment
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir has said city boy Sourav Ganguly had done immense to get the rousing support against the home team at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, but the case would not be the same when he leads KKR at his home ground in Delhi in their next match on May 7.
Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir may want to believe otherwise, but many Kolkatans, including Sourav Ganguly's wife Dona, said they would root for the city's favourite son when he leads Pune Warriors in an IPL match in Kolkata on May 5.
Trump also said all Americans were "rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death" of Floyd, and asserted that justice will be served.
It will be a battle of survival for the two national captains as Virat Kohli's struggling Royal Challengers Bangalore square off against a fledgling Pune Supergiants led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in an IPL encounter for the bottom-rung teams in Bengaluru on Saturday. With five defeats in seven games, RCB are currently placed at a lowly seventh spot in the table with four points while Pune are just a notch above in sixth spot courtesy their third win against Delhi Daredevils, on Thursday. It has been a tough journey for the two superstars of Indian cricket as their franchises have dished one disappointing performance after another. RCB with perhaps the most intimidating batting line-ups has had to taste defeat because of a pedestrian bowling attack that has failed to defend 180 plus scores in most of the matches.
Neither the filmmaker nor the actor who is being targeted, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf, has done anything illegal.
In order to give a fillip to the ensuing tourist season, the Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to re-start famous light and sound shows in Shalimar Garden and the Hariparbat Fort in the city. The shows had been suspended for the last 22 years due to the rise in militancy. This was announced at a meeting of senior state government officers and local tour and travel operators chaired by Minister of State for Home and Tourism Nasir Aslam Wani.
'Physically, he was a strong man, but given to moments of emotional weakness.' 'He had to be put back on the right track by the women in his life.'
Powered by strong demand from IT and related sectors, Bangalore is seeing a record absorption in commercial and residential segments amid a sharp fall in demand seen in key property markets such as Mumbai and the national capital region (NCR).
Hollande will be arriving in Chandigarh on January 24 where he is expected to be received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said that senior team's head coach Ravi Shastri will be asked to get "more involved" in grooming talent at the National Cricket Academy "till the time he is coach".
The state government decided to rename the area at Girgaum Chowpatty where Tilak was cremated, as 'Swaraj Bhoomi'.
It's been a decade of ordeals for the residents of the plush Mayfield Gardens in Gurgaon who are living in their crore plus apartments without basic amenities of water, power and sewage. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
The first Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat may believe that the water crisis is a media creation, but the photographs below suggest otherwise.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said he "doesn't have an answer" on the fate of this year's Indian Premier League amid a nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The Board of Control for Cricket in India suspended the 13th edition of IPL, originally scheduled from March 29, to April 15 after government suspended all visas, barring few categories like diplomatic and employment, making it impossible for foreign players to participate.
Delhi Daredevils fast bowler Mohammed Shami, who is charged with domestic violence and infidelity by his wife Hasin Jahan, has been summoned by the Kolkata Police on Wednesday, forcing him to stay back in Kolkata while his team left for Bengaluru for their next IPL match.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa on Saturday walked out of a Bangalore prison following Supreme Court granting her bail in a graft case, arriving to a grand homecoming with scores of avid supporters turning up to welcome her despite heavy downpour.
Serena had said on Monday that she "can't wait for the future" as she warmed up for her return to the WTA Tour at the Tie Break Tens exhibition at Madison Square Garden.
Aegis, the global outsourcing services arm of Essar Group, on Thursday announced its plans to enter the UK and European markets for the first time, creating 600 new jobs in Manchester.
All that happened in India in the past week, in photos.
Former Indian Cricket captain Sourav Ganguly is keen to play the four-day and 50-over Ranji Trophy matches for home side Bengal.
'Lhasa is more than the Unesco World Heritage Sites it boasts of. It is more than a gateway to the mighty Himalayas.' 'It is about the warmth of its people: Unsaid, unspoken, but felt everywhere,' discovers Shruti Bajpai.
If there is a lesson to be learnt from the 1980s, it is that mobocracy never works. And a government that yields before public protests will have ceded its right to govern, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Sukanya Verma brings us everything we learned in this notorious year.
Sir Elton John will headline an April 9 fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. The event is called Elton And Hillary: One Night Only.
According to the new rule, the cost of installing the GPS system -- about $8,000 -- will have to be borne by the drives themselves.
The Indian Premier League's Kolkata schedule has been slightly rejigged owing to the Municipal elections in the city with the organisers deciding to shift Kolkata Knight Riders' home matches, dated April 12 to 25, following a request from local police.
'You have been surrounded from all directions, if you want the safety of your troops and your personal safety, we will give you eight hours to make up your mind to surrender.'
Make in India right now is just a slogan. The policy content is missing or not clearly articulated. The lion with cogs and wheels must now show some majestic movement forward, says Rahul Khullar.
There was music, dance, workshops and lots to be entertained and be inspired from.
The prime minister had called ferry service his 'dream project' while addressing a gathering at Gandhinagar on Monday.
