Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi continued his fine run to defeat International Master Ivan Popov of Russia in the 10th and penultimate round of World Youth Star chess tournament.
Debutant pacemen Abdul Rauf and Wahab Riaz shared five wickets to dismiss Zimbabwe for 181 in 45.4 overs after they had elected to bat first in the fifth and final ODI on Saturday.
Pakistan on Thursday confirmed that banned JeM chief Masood Azhar has been taken into "protective custody" along with his accomplices, but clarified he isn't arrested."
Three students were on Wednesday taken into custody in Pakistan in connection with the Pathankot attack.
Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler and the third in the world to reach the milestone of 600 wickets.
A day after the National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet against Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar in the Pathankot attack, India took on Pakistan at the United Nations and called on the hostile neighbour to leave behind its ways of terrorism, with the warning saying that, "what you sow will bear fruit".
Ian Nepomniachtchi was declared winner of the World Youth Star chess tournament after finishing joint-first with Negi, Rauf Mamedov and Zaven Andriasian.
Despite the draw the Indian Grandmaster held joint-lead with Zaven Andriasian of Armenia after the sixth round in the World Youth Stars International chess tournament.
The ICC announced the expansion of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires on Friday.
South Africa crushed the Pakistan Cricket Board XI by 176 runs in a one-day tour match on Tuesday.
The actress is the celebrity judge on the Great Indian Laughter Challenge 2 finale.
Pakistan's Shabbir Ahmed and Shoaib Malik were pulled up for suspect bowling actions after the first Test against England.
The last Indian umpire on the Elite panel was former Test captain and spinner S Venkataraghavan, whose final assignment was during Australia's visit to Sri Lanka in March 2003.
"We have detained one more absconder but more information will be revealed later," Special IG (Vadodara range) Rakesh Asthana, who heads a Special Investigation Team probing the train carnage, said.
Continuous rain throughout the morning and afternoon forced umpires Simon Taufel and Asad Rauf to call off play 20 minutes after tea on the penultimate day.
It was 15 minutes of total confusion as TV replays of Dhoni's catch were inconclusive.
Singh said since Pakistan has given the assurance to the Indian government, there should be no reason to disbelieve them so early.
Mahindra United scored a 5-0 win over Mohammedan Sporting in the NFL on Friday
India pacer Shantakumaran Sreesanth and his Rajasthan Royals team mate Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were on Sunday cleared of charges by a Delhi court in the spot-fixing and betting scandal in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League in 2013. A flashback of the events that unfolded in the episode.
Victims in the 2002 Salman hit-and-run case say they are more concerned with compensation than the actor's punishment.
An National Investigation Agency court in Punjab on Tuesday issued proclamation notice against Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed's chief Maulana Masood Azhar and three others, asking them to appear before it on March nine in connection with last year's brazen attack on Pathankot IAF base.
The 3 arrested were in continuous touch through WhatsApp with Maulana Mufti Ashghar, based in Muzaffarabad, whose nephew Waqas (JeM commander in South Kashmir) was killed in an encounter near Pulwama recently.
East Bengal tasted their maiden defeat in a super six round match of the Kolkata Super Division football league.
Pakistan on Wednesday arrested Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother and "several individuals" belonging to his dreaded outfit, which is suspected to have engineered the Pathankot terror attack, and sealed its offices after India demanded action, linking it to the fate of Foreign Secretary-level talks.
Viswanathan Anand played out his second straight draw in the Shamkir Chess tournament.
Pakistani authorities have lodged a first information report into the Pathankot terror attack case, officials said on Friday.
'Jaish e Mohammed has been allowed to resurge through supported terror actions in J&K in a deliberate tactic by Pakistan, if only to reduce the international pressure on the Lashkar e Taiba leadership after 26/11,' points out Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
There's more trouble coming for IPL betting scandal accused Gurunath Meiyappan, an ex-official of Chennai Super Kings, and actor Vindoo Dara Singh. The police on Friday said their voice samples matched the tapped telephonic conversation in which they were purportedly discussing matches and betting activities.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand drew with old foe Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fourth round of Shamkir Chess 2015, held in the memory of Grandmaster Vugar Gashimov.
In a sign of official patronage to Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the Pakistan government is running two special trains to transport people to Lahore for the terror group's two-day congregation in Lahore.
'Parrikar is living for Modi and Shah, not for his motherland or Goa'
India on Wednesday night deferred a decision on whether to go ahead with the FS-level talks with Pakistan on Friday after the detention of "several individuals" of the dreaded JeM by Islamabad.
Saeed said Pakistan government has added insult to the wounds of Kashmiris by welcoming Singh.
The National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a chargesheet in the Pathankot airbase terror attack, naming Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and three others of his organisation as accused.
Pakistani authorities have conducted raids in some cities of Punjab province and arrested several suspects in connection with the attack on the Pathankot air base last month, a media report said.
The Pakistani investigation team needs more evidence to take the investigation forward and hence, has written to the government to speak to India and apprise them of the situation.
The court held that Salman was driving under the influence of alcohol and also did not have a driving license.
The LRs are being despatched notwithstanding indications from the Pakistani side that it was not yet ready to receive Indian investigators to carry forward the probe in the January 2 attack that left seven security personnel dead.
At least three people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when communal clashes broke out in a popular Sri Lankan tourist region, even as President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday warned rioters against taking law into their own hands in curfew-bound areas.
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