Kieron Pollard's stunning maiden century went in vain as India beat West Indies by 34 runs to win the fifth and final One-day to record an emphatic 4-1 series triumph in Chennai.
Holders Manchester City will host rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup third round after Sunday's draw threw up a mouth-watering derby.
The meeting came against the backdrop of members of DMK and Trinamool Congress joining opposition in demanding rollback and a discussion in Parliament under an adjournment motion.
Indian Union Muslim League leader P K Kunhalikutty, who was embroiled in a sex scandal-related controversy, has registered an impressive win by a margin of over 30,000 votes from Vengara in Kerala. Fending off an aggressive campaign against him over the scandal during the run-up to the elections, Kunhalikutty trounced his nearest Left Democratic Front-backed Indian National League opponent K P Ismail
This is the second major ceasefire violation along the IB this month and came despite Director General Military Operations of the two countries agreeing, on May 29, to implement the ceasefire pact of 2003 in "letter and spirit".
Bayern Munich slumped to a shock home defeat by Borussia Moenchengladbach in their opening Bundesliga match on Sunday following a blunder by their most expensive new signings.
A hushed silence has descended on the terror groups in their hotbed in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt close to Afghanistan after the slaying of the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden, with US intelligence saying that militant chatter lines had gone dead.
Fourteen ex-MPs of the Congress party have slammed the coterie around Congress president Sonia Gandhi and blamed senior managers and party general secretaries for the widening gap between the leadership and the workers and the lack of communication and interaction.
Making a submission in the court of Justice Saumitra Pal, Tata counsel Samaraditya Pal said that 997.11 acre leased to Tatas (lessee) by West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (lessor) was not kept idle from the time of execution of the lease deed to the exit from the site by the company.
The court also imposed Rs 10 lakh (Rs 1 million) as cost on the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority and directed it to hand over the land to the villagers and farmers.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
A Colorado woman, who was an accomplice to terror accused 'Jihad Jane', on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiring to support terrorists and travelling to Europe and South Asia to wage "violent jihad".
His chances of playing in the Champions League T20 seems pretty bleak but Gautam Gambhir will take a final call on his participation latest by next Sunday, according to sources.
Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Delhi, rode on a fine hat-trick from Akashdeep Singh to trounce Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bangalore, 5-2, while Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Bangalore, struggled to overcome South Central Railway (SCR), Secunderabad 1-0 in the semi-finals on Friday.
We should keep in mind that a deeper and reasonably balanced relationship with the US is in India's interest, says former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal.
Aarakshan isn't the first blunder the Big B has made.
Newcastle United have signed French winger Gabriel Obertan on a five-year deal from Premier League champions Manchester United, the north-east club said on their website on Tuesday.
Australia's journey back up the Test world rankings is not going to happen overnight but the upcoming series in Sri Lanka will be an indication of their current status, captain Michael Clarke said on Thursday.
Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Deccan Chargers and Kochi Tuskers Kerala, in Kochi, on Wednesday.
Holders Manchester United will face Premier League rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers in the last 16 of the English League Cup after the draw was made on Saturday.
Reliance Industries may ask the government for a refund of its investment if it is forced to give up any part of the prolific KG-D6 block as it has spent a huge sum of money on exploration after obtaining necessary permission to retain the entire 7,645-sq km area.
Mamata Bannerjee, a key United Progressive Alliance constituent, has put the cat amongst the pigeons by demanding that the UPA set up a co-ordination committee to discuss important issues and decisions before they are made and implemented. She said the recent petrol price hike was undertaken without her consent.
A eight-member central team, headed by Joint Secretary in Union Agriculture Ministry E K Majhi, will visit drought-hit districts of West Bengal on Wednesday.
Delighted with India's performance in the recently-concluded Youth Olympics Games (YOG) in Singapore, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Saturday felicitated the country's medal winners in the inaugural quadrennial event with cash awards.
Countering industrialist Ratan Tata's statement, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday said he is "no judge" and his views will not be given much importance as he himself was a "beneficiary" of United Progressive Alliance's telecom policy.
The Government today said it has not directed public sector banks to cut exposure in real estate following the housing-finance bribery scam. "No why should we say this," Financial Services Secretary R Gopalan told reporters when asked if the government has given such directions to the state-run banks.
The Communist Party of India - Marxist may support the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for a probe by the Joint Parliamentary Committee into the allegations of corruption against former telecom minister A Raja."We are of the view the government must agree to the Opposition's demand for holding a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the telecom scam. If that cannot be done, than the govt must come up with an alternative mechanism to unearth the truth," said a CPM leader.
According to the lease agreement between Tata Motors and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, the lessor will have the option to terminate the lease if the land has not been used for three years or more, which will kick-in from October 2011. Tata Motors had pulled out of the Nano project in October 2008.
Fernando Torres finally scored his first goal for Chelsea on Saturday as the champions beat West Ham United 3-0 to remain six points behind Manchester United after the leaders had beaten Everton 1-0.
India has made a strong pitch for according high priority to nuclear disarmament and an early commencement of negotiations on the fissile material cut-off treaty, while insisting that it favours parleys that are 'without prejudice'.
And long after the match got over -- with India beating Pakistan by 29 runs to book a berth in the final against Sri Lanka -- MS Dhoni did admit that he misread the pitch.
The Indian women's cricket team continued its unbeaten run at the ICC World Cup Qualifiers by advancing to the final with a seven-wicket victory over arch-rivals Pakistan, in Colombo, on Sunday.
Late on Friday evening, union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Jairam Ramesh met in the office of the former and cancelled the Rs 3000 crore Loharibag Pala Hydroelectric power project which had been cleared by the group of Ministers headed by Pranab Mukherjee. 600 crore had already been spent on the project.
India and Kazakhstan will soon wrap-up inter-governmental negotiations on civil nuclear cooperation, a move that came after meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kazakh President Noorsultan Nazarbayev.
Chairman and managing director R S Sharma said, "Our oil production, after a ten-year flat growth, is projected to increase by about three million tonnes (annually) in the next two-three years and gas production from 62 million cubic metres per day is expected to cross 100 million cubic metres per day in the next five-six years."
India's performance on day five of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, on Wednesday.
The Congress in West Bengal cautioned that the hold-up of a party leader from membership drive allegedly by Trinamool Congress activists in East Midnapore district of West Bengal could cast a shadow on relations between the two parties in the poll-bound state.
A look at what transpired at the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
Former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu salutes VVS Laxman and the Indian team on their showing in the first Test against Australia at Mohali
Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, or rather his incredible wax likeness, visited Hong Kong for the first time ever to meet his adoring fans during the ongoing 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The highest-paid football player in the world, Ronaldo's wax figure was jointly launched at Madame Tussauds museums in Hong Kong and London.
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