Rashid Khan took a big leap towards becoming the quickest bowler to 100 ODI wickets when he grabbed his fourth five-wicket haul as Afghanistan overcame a top-order batting collapse to prevail over the United Arab Emirates in a Super Six fixture of the ICC World Cup Qualifier, in Harare, on Tuesday.
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Rohit Sharma made history on Thursday with a scintillating 264, the highest individual ODI score, as India amassed 404 for five in the fourth one-dayer against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Take a look the ten best scores in ODIs
Some interesting moments from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Is it the end of India's most wanted terrorist Riyaz Bhatkal? Underworld don Chota Rajan has claimed that his aides have killed Riyaz Bhatkal and an associate of his, Anwar, at the Gulshan Iqbal area in Karachi, Pakistan.
In the incident caught on camera, the boy lay bleeding in agonising pain for about 25 minutes before he was rushed to a hospital nearby.
Images from English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
India's winless run on its Portugal tour continued as they played out a goalless draw with Casa Pia AC in their fifth practice match at Casa Pia ground in Lisbon.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ruled out a rethink on the seat-sharing formula for the 'Grand Secular Alliance' for the state Assembly polls, a day after Nationalist Congress Party's ultimatum for reconsideration by August 20 and its insistence on 12 seats.
'Temperamentally, they are quite alike.' 'Ahmed Patel avoided the limelight and was not a power seeker.' 'The Gandhis too are not power wielders, but trustees of power.'
The US is investigating the circumstances into how and why five of its young citizens from Virginia landed up in Pakistan, as these men are accused of being in touch with radicals for taking part in 'jihad'.
Pakistan's Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan resigned on Friday citing "lack of cooperation" from the Law Minister, a day after he accused him of obstructing efforts to implement the Supreme Court's order to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland.
According to the Asian Rich List 2010, brought out by Eastern Eye, a publication of the Asian Media & Marketing Group, 59-year-old Mittal is followed by the Hinduja brothers -- Srichand and Gopichand -- with estimated wealth of 8 billion pounds, Anil Agarwal of mining group Vedanta Resources with 4 billion pounds, Sir Anwar Pervez of Bestways with 715 million pounds and industrialist Swraj Paul of Caparo with 510 million pounds.
Tom Cooper took two wickets in a space of four balls before smashing an unbeaten 34 as Netherlands began their ICC World Twenty20 qualifying campaign with a comfortable six-wicket win over United Arab Emirates in a Group B match in Sylhet on Monday.
All the Opposition parties will submit a notice for a debate on a resolution on intolerance.
Five young American Muslims were indicted on Wednesday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court for funding militants and plotting terror attacks in the country, a charge if proved could see them getting life-term.
The star couple will tie the knot in August this year
Opener Ahmed Shehzad missed out on a deserved century but Pakistan cruised past United Arab Emirates by 129 runs in their ICC World Cup Pool B clash.
Al Qaeda is promoting the upcoming online release of its first English magazine called Inspire, promising Anwar Al Alwaki, the America-born cleric linked to several terror attacks on the United States, as one of its first guest writers.
Images from the World Cup Pool B game between India and the United Arab Emirates in Perth.
Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla has stoked a controversy by reportedly calling all Indians "Hindus". However, she sought to clarify her comments on Friday, saying she had called all Indians Hindi, the Arabic term for people living in India and what she said was "not in relation to the religion but in relation to identity as nationality". She did not call them Hindus, she said.
The ongoing controversy over religious conversion was fuelled by Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday.
'A six month extension, if not extended further, would make General Bajwa a lame duck chief, altering the balance of his equations with the senior peer group of lieutenant generals,' says Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Defying a Supreme Court order, Pakistan government on Thursday said graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland over alleged stashing of $ 60 million in banks there cannot be reopened and made it clear that the matter is closed.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Five American Muslim youths arrested by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of terror links have shown no remorse about their plans to commit terrorist acts and one has even said they should be hanged so that they could become martyrs, a senior police official said on Monday.
Pakistani authorities have registered a case under the stringent Anti-Terrorism Act against the five American Muslim youths, who were recently arrested in Sargodha in Punjab province on suspicion of links with terrorist groups.
Under fire over the molestation of a woman in a busy Patna street, the Bihar government on Saturday transferred 14 senior police officers, including an inspector general, deputy inspector general and five senior superintendents of police. As the incident on Thursday sparked an outrage threatening to sully the government's image, IG (central zone) Sunil Kumar, DIG (central range) J S Gangwar, SSP (Patna) R Malar Vizhi and Superintendent of Police Anwar Hussain were shifted.
New Delhi must clearly demonstrate to Beijing that China will pay a price for its relentless strategic undermining of India, says Ajai Shukla.
The Pakistani government has informed the Lahore high court here that it wants to restrict the movements of disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan as he is facing "threats to his life".
"He was one of the oldest militant and wanted for several terror-related crimes," police told PTI.
Anwar, to be directed by Amal Neerad, will also star Prakash Raj, actor/producer/director Lal and Mamta Mohandas.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry President Zubair Ahmed Malik also said that the negative list should also be pruned to boost bilateral trade with India.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Zimbabwe batsman Charles Coventry vaulted into the top 100 of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after his record-equaling knock of 194 against Bangladesh in the recently-concluded ODI series.
Will the AIADMK acknowledge the role of CAA and the anti-CAA protests, both inside the state and outside, as among the causes for the current electoral reversal, as many in the party now want? It is unlikely to be so, but then the pressure will increase on the leadership to reassess the BJP alliance at one level and the 'blind support' for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial policies on the other, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
940 children have died this year. A team from NCPCR found the hospital to be in the 'worst condition'. 77 infants had died till December 24 including 10 within 48 hours on December 23-24.
The day-long forum held in Mumbai is being jointly organised by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and Securities Commission of Malaysia. Meanwhile, Sebi chairman C B Bhave in his inaugural address said, "Both Securities Exchange Board of India and Securities Commision, Malaysia, can promote linkage between our financial sectors, capital markets and cross-border investment participation."
