Captain Ranti Martins fired in a hat-trick as I-League champions Dempo beat East Bengal 3-1 to lift the Super Cup football tournament in Gurgaon on Wednesday.
Carl McHugh scored ATK's 100th goal of the ISL in only the sixth minute of the game but the home side, egged on by a vociferous crowd of more than 35,000, hit back with two goals from their new signing Ogbeche to begin their campaign on a winning note.
The global jihadi network is under pressure but it needs a long-term strategy to keep it in control, writes Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
SCEB failed to make use of a numerical advantage to settle for a 1-1 draw against FC Goa
Lionel Messi mesmerised Nigeria in a magical display to confirm Argentina as one of the World Cup favourites but a goalkeeping bungle against the United States set England off to a disappointing start on Saturday.
Gabriel Heinze scored early in the first half as two-time champions Argentina started their2010 World Cup campaign in style with a 1-0 win over Nigeria in a Group B clash at the Elis Park stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Argentina's Diego Maradona hugged Nigerian players and blew kisses to the crowd during a lap of Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium an hour before his squad kick off against Nigeria on Saturday.
Here are Images from League Cup matches played in England and Italy on Wednesday.
There is no doubt that the Al Qaeda has expanded its network to newer areas like Yemen and Somalia, but Pakistan remains its nerve centre, a top American Senator said on Wednesday.
Bhardwaj, an engineer in Singapore-based shipping company Transocean Limited, was kidnapped along with four colleagues from different countries when their ship Sampatiki was at sea, around 30 nautical miles off Nigerian capital Lagos.
Aditi Mutatkar became a first round casualty but Indian men's and mixed doubles pairs kept the tri-colour fluttering as India wrapped up a mixed day at the World Badminton Championships in Paris on Monday.
Accusing Britain of being a "menace to the outside world", Americans have blamed their closest ally in Europe for the rise of Islamic extremism amid growing anger over the UK's perceived failure to tackle extremism.
United States President Barack Obama has ordered a review of air security measures after a Nigerian youth carrying explosives managed to sneak into a transatlantic American jet."The president wants to review some of these procedures and see if they need to be updated," said an official, amid reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was on a US 'security watch list' after his father alerted authorities about is behaviour.
There was "no indication" to suggest that the Nigerian terror suspect was acting as part of a larger plot when he unsuccessfully attempted to blow up a US plane midair on the Christmas Day, US Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, told the CNN on Sunday.
A man ignited a small explosive device on board an international flight headed to the United States on Friday, in a suspected terrorist attack, informed the White House.A fellow passenger, traveling on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, spotted the man and alerted the cabin crew. He put out the explosive with a blanket and isolated the terror suspect with the help of the cabin crew.The man carrying the explosive was identified as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23.
Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan beat Mohammedan Sporting 4-1, while Goa's Churchill Brothers routed HAL, Bangalore, 3-0 in the opening matches of the Federation Cup football tournament.
In an Instagram post by Esha, Iwobi was called 'gorilla'.
A fresh round of violence in the communally sensitive northern Nigerian city of Jos has killed more than 500 persons and displaced dozens.
Title favourites East Bengal's nightmare in the return leg of the I-League continued as they lost to Shillong Lajong FC 0-1 in a 15th round encounter in Shillong on Saturday.
Mired in corruption, politics and with a history of suicides by its hapless depositors, PMC Bank's revival is a challenge very different from Yes Bank and LVB, both for the regulator and the rescuer, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Players' lack of commitment towards their national teams is the reason why African sides have fared poorly in the ongoing FIFA World Cup says former Nigerian striker Chima Okorie.
South Korea have targeted the sometimes fragile Nigerian temperament as a route to victory when a tight World Cup Group B reaches a climax on Tuesday with all four teams still in the hunt for a second round spot.
Nigeria midfielder Sani Kaita has been inundated with death threats from home after he was sent off in the Super Eagles' 2-1 loss to Greece in their Group B World Cup match on Thursday.
'Taking serious note of the action by unscrupulous elements to malign the Indian generic pharma industry, the embassy of India, Beijing, has been requested to lodge a strong protest with concerned Chinese authorities and also to impress upon them to take stringent action against such unscrupulous elements,' a commerce ministry statement said in New Delhi.
Lionel Messi lit up the World Cup on Saturday with a mesmerising individual performance but profligate Argentina still only beat Nigeria 1-0 with a goal from Gabriel Heinze in Group B.
It may have been content so far with milk powder as a substitute, Nigeria now intends to replicate the Amul model in the near future.
The Nigerian city of Jos almost turned to a ghost town as residents fled to seek refuge in churches, mosques and military barracks on Wednesday, even as Muslim-Christian clashes spread to new regions leaving more than 300 dead in three days of communal-violence.
The United States has designated Yemen-based Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula as a terrorist organisation and slapped sanctions on its leaders.
An inspired display from captain Ahmed Hassan helped African Nations Cup holders Egypt come from a goal down to defeat Nigeria 3-1 in the opening Group C match in Benguela on Tuesday.
In the wake of the attempt by a Nigerian to blow up a US-bound plane on Christmas Day, security at airports across the country has been tightened, with full-body scanners expected to be installed at the O'Hare International Airport in here by next year.
US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a "systemic failure" occurred in the intelligence network ahead of the thwarted attack on a US-bound flight from Amsterdam on Christmas Day.
The two Al Qaeda leaders said to be behind the plot to blow up a US airplane on Christmas Day were Guantanamo detainees released in November 2007, a media report said on Tuesday prompting calls from lawmakers that the administration review its plan to close the prison.
Chirag United failed to convert the opportunities galore as the defending champions Dempo escaped with a goalless draw in their ONGC I-League football encounter at the Vidyasagar Krirangan on Saturday.
The Apollo group is planning to build a hospital in Africa in the next two years.
Riding on a hat-trick by Nigerian striker Odafa Okolie, Churchill Brothers defeated Chirag United 4-2 in their 15th round match of the ONGC I-league football championships at Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Sunday.
Riyad Mahrez, who inspired Leicester City to an extraordinary Premier League title triumph last season, was named African Footballer of the Year on Thursday.
While Slumdog Millionaire picked up seven BAFTA awards in a ceremony in London, the Indian presence was also felt at the Grammy awards with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain winning in the Contemporary World Music Album category for his collaborative album Global Drum Project.
Nigeria beat Bosnia 1-0 on Saturday to record their first World Cup finals victory since 1998 and condemn the European team to an early exit in their first appearance at the tournament.
North East United FC (NEUFC) and FC Pune City (FPC) missed a lot of scoring opportunities as their Hero Indian Super League match ended in goalless draw in Guwahati on Saturday.
A keen competition is on the cards as runners-up Mohan Bagan begin their I-League campaign against Chirag United at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan.
