Indian origin spinner Arjun Nair has been named in Cricket Australia's 18-member National Performance Squad for the upcoming Quadrangular Winter 'A' Series, which will also feature India 'A', Australia 'A' and South Africa 'A', starting August 13.
Joe Maguire was found guilty of repeated bodily harm, violence against public employees and attempted bribery. Sharman was found guilty of insult, repeated bodily harm and violence against public employees.
Eight wins and a draw in their last nine games had seen Leicester emerge as the closest pursuers of runaway leaders Liverpool but they went down 3-1 at the Etihad despite taking an early lead through Jamie Vardy. Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
IMAGES from Saturday's English Premier League matches.
Twelve months ago Liverpool were ripping up the record books on the way to their first English top-flight title for 30 years but defeat by Everton on Saturday left them mulling a host of far less flattering statistics.
'Rashtrapati Bhavan may have hygiene standards that are a benchmark for the rest of the hoi polloi, but you had to feel sorry for the august assembly of guests who braved the temperature for a seat at the new Cabinet's swearing in,' says Kishore Singh.
'I was scared, running from the reality that I was not physically and mentally well.'
Balotelli made his debut for his hometown club after completing a four-match suspension that he was handed at Olympique de Marseille last season, while the visitors were without Cristiano Ronaldo as he recovers from injury.
Being distributed through a fake Flash Player app, the malware is designed for stealing login credentials, hijacking SMSs, uploading contact lists and SMSs to malicious servers, reports Romita Majumdar.
A surreal life and a tragic death -- here's to the late Michael Jackson, King of Pop.
About 80 per cent of the investors in India said that the economic situation has improved, whereas around 77 per cent investors in China believe so, as per the latest quarterly ING Investor Dashboard survey.
'The US and India continue to use their deepening relationship to build new partnerships within and beyond the Indo-Pacific.'
Renault will not contest race-fixing charges levelled against their Formula One team, the team said in a statement on Wednesday. Team boss Flavio Briatore and director of engineering Pat Symonds have left the team, it added.
Indian investors have emerged as the most optimistic lot in Asia and along with their Chinese counterparts have driven an increase in the region's overall investor sentiment in the first quarter of this year, a latest survey says.
Daniel Sturridge's Liverpool career seemed to be heading for a premature end last season but the striker showed on Tuesday he may yet have an important role after taking his chance during a rare start in the Champions League win over Paris St Germain.
List of major transfers in the top Premier League ahead of the 2019-20 season (all transfer fees as reported by British media):
How will China deal with Taiwan's first woman president? Srikanth Kondapalli explains the significance of a historic election.
Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna's challenge at the Australian Open ended, on Wednesday, with a shock defeat in the mixed doubles quarterfinals with partner Yung-Jan Chan.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso said on Tuesday he would think about quitting Formula One if the sport adopted a standard engine from 2010. Champions Ferrari, who could well figure in Alonso's future, and Toyota have already said they will consider pulling out if standard engines are imposed.
Soaring inflation and market volatility notwithstanding, Indian investors have emerged most optimistic in Asia and many of them believe the economy has improved in the second quarter of 2008, says a survey.
The 30-share Sensex provisionally ended up 366 points at 27,275 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 132 points at 8,235.
At least 14 mutual fund schemes have closed down, according to announcements made by fund houses. The reason: they had less than 20 investors in the scheme or a single investor was accounting for more than 25 per cent of the corpus. According to Sebi's guidelines, any scheme should have at least 20 investors. Also, no investor can account for over 25 per cent of the corpus.
Director Shaji Kailas' latest venture Red Chillies starring Mohanlal depends more on technical slickness than substance and fails to lure us.
Ronda Rousey thrashes body shamers calling her 'masculine'.
Australian doping authorities have cleared retired swimmer Ian Thorpe of any wrongdoing after completing their investigation into an irregular test result.
Shares of most European banks are down significantly.
To attract Indian women, companies are coming up with games specially designed for them.
'Visiting my friend in his affluent locality, I realised that the Delhi weather had become the great equaliser.' 'Pollution was always in the air, everywhere, and had become the primary subject of all conversations,' notes Ambassador B S Prakash.
The Indian market has corrected a lot already. Valuations are clearly more attractive than they were earlier this year.
Liverpool's Sadio Mane marked his return from injury with a late goal to break Norwich City's resistance and secure a 1-0 win on Saturday to extend his side's Premier League lead to 25 points.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the magnitude of the alleged black money transfer through state-owned BoB will only be known after completion of the multi-disciplinary probe.
In continuation of the interim order dated April 27, 2006 relating to IPO scam, G Anantharaman, whole-time member of Securities & Exchange Board of India passed an interim order on Tuesday.
South Korean police have arrested a foreign athlete competing at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju for suspected sexual harassment at a nightclub, a South Korean police official said on Sunday.
Barcelona equalled a club record of 12 consecutive league wins as Neymar and Lionel Messi were among the scorers in a 6-0 thrashing of struggling Getafe 6-0 at the Nou Camp on Saturday.
The gorgeous gal turns 25 on July 29.
Vodafone-Essar, the leading GSM operator is raising around $500 million (Rs 2,000 crore) through overseas borrowing. This is the first fund raising by the telecom major after British telecom major Vodafone acquired a majority stake.
'Gone too soon, Astad, but I know whenever we meet in that world beyond, I will watch you dance.' Swarupa Dutt remembers a remarkable human being and a magnificent performer who left the world poorer when he passed into the ages on Thursday.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has invited French companies to expand their activities in India, particularly in the infrastructure sector. \n
