Controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar appears to be in deep trouble as the Pakistan Cricket Board has submitted a strong chargesheet against him, while coach Geoff Lawson has asked the PCB not to consider the maverick speedster for Test matches.
Shashi Tharoor has been removed as Congress spokesperson after the party high command received complaints that he had embarrassed the party with his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Pakistan cricket board's disciplinary committee on Thursday imposed a 13-match ban and 3.4 million rupees ($56,000) fine on Shoaib for four misconduct charges, including hitting team mate Mohammad Asif with a bat before the Twenty20 World Cup.
The PCB called the fast bowler to attend a disciplinary hearing after he was sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup earlier this month for hitting a team mate.
The Pakistani fast bowler had left a training camp in Karachi last Saturday without informing the team management.
The Euro qualifier between Denmark and Sweden was abandoned in the 89th minute when a fan attacked referee Herbert Fandel.
He showed a video of Solanki and Poonia purportedly entering a hotel and exiting a hotel room one after the other.
The Supreme Court set aside the life ban imposed on former India pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth by the BCCI for his alleged involvement in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal.
The party sent the suspension notices to Uttar Pradesh leaders Rakesh Sinha and Vishal Sharma Lathe for openly coming out in support of Yadav and Bhushan.
Mexico's national team has launched a campaign to discourage fans from shouting homophobic slurs during football matches.
'Rahul Gandhi is showing an 'I-don't-care-attitude'.' 'He is showing the same attitude towards what is happening in Maharashtra or in various parts of the country.'
Roberto Carlos will miss the return leg of his side's Champions League knockout tie against Bayern Munich.
The AC Milan goalkeeper was also fined US$57,000 by UEFA following his dramatic fall during his team's 2-1 Champions League defeat against Celtic.
This will be the second time India will face Kuwait in the tournament. They had played out a 1-1 draw in an acrimonious Group A match last week.
With the Delhi high court allowing the Board of Control for Cricket in India to conduct its Special General Meeting (SGM) in Chennai on Wednesday, the decks are cleared for the Board to impose a possible life ban on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi for alleged financial irregularities while being at the helm of the cash-rich league from 2008-2010.
The Board told the Mumbai high court that its inquiry commissioner in his report said the Maharashtra cricketer is guilty.
The former Pakistan captain could face a year's ban for violating the PCB code of conduct.
The former BCCI chief filed a suit challenging the legality of the Board's summons to appear before its disciplinary committee on Wednesday.
Former France captain Zinedine Zidane will appear before FIFA's disciplinary committee in Zurich on Thursday to give his account of the incident in which he head-butted an opponent in the World Cup final.
The suspended IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi has moved the Supreme Court for a stay of the BCCI special meet.
Argentina's Leandro Cufre and Maxi Rodriguez were also banned and fined for the brawl after the Germany game.
In a day of frantic developments, Digvijaya Singh entered the fray for the Congress president's election as Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot opted out of the race and the suspense over his continuation at the helm in the state deepened with the party saying it would be decided in a day or two.
Mumbai left-arm spinner Harmeet Singh, who was let off for lack of evidence in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing probe, expressed happiness, saying he always maintained he was innocent.
FC Barcelona's appeal against Luis Suarez's two-match King's Cup ban for allegedly provoking a fracas in the tunnel after last week's game against Espanyol has been rejected, the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) said.
The governing football body has made it mandatory for all clubs to have a team doctor on board.
The AIFF slapped the fine for registering three players on loan instead of the permitted two.
AS Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman has been banned for two games for unsportsmanlike conduct during his team's 2-0 win over local rivals Lazio on Sunday, the Serie A disciplinary committee said on Tuesday.
Anuradha Saha had died in 1998 allegedly due to negligence by doctors attending on her.
Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh has been handed a nine-month ban by the Iranian Football Federation (FFIRI) after being found guilty of attacking a fan.
The leaders who have been expelled are Dilawar Mir, Rafi Ahmad Mir, Zaffar Iqbal, Abdul Majeed Padroo, Raja Manzoor Khan, Javaid Hussain Baig, Qamar Hussain and Abdul Rahim Rather -- all former MLAs.
The BCCI challenged the Rajasthan Sports Act 2005 allowing the former Indian Premier League commissioner to contest the RCA presidential elections on December 19 despite being banned for life by the Board.
The Dutch striker has been banned for two World Cup qualifying matches for insulting referee Anders Frisk.
"The remarks made about Gandhiji or Nathuram Godse are very bad and very wrong for society," he said.
Slamming the life ban imposed on Lalit Modi by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, former Indian Premier League chairman's lawyer Mehmood Abdi on Wednesday said he would challenge it in the court.
Mumbai City FC to make AFC Champions League debut in Riyadh
Zidane was given a three-match ban and a 7,500 Swiss franc fine for head-butting Marco Materazzi in this month's World Cup final in Berlin.
Saqlain is due to appear before the Pakistan Cricket Board's disciplinary committee on Wednesday.
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