Four-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand will be among the few sportspersons who will welcome the Queen's Baton Relay (QBR) for the Delhi Commonwealth Games when it reaches Chennai on Friday.
The New England Patriots were crowned Super Bowl champions on Sunday after defeating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 to capture their first National Football League title in 10 years.
The US believes Lashkar-e-Tayiba, the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation, responsible for the horrific Mumbai terror attacks on 26/11 and several other terrorist acts in India, could soon replace Al Qaeda as the number one worldwide terrorist threat or at the very least compete with Osama bin Laden's global Terror Inc.
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IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Wednesday.
Three Ugandan officials, including their chef de mission, spent a night in hospital after an accident during a security check at the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
The firing incident in New Delhi and the explosion of a car should serve as a warning to security agencies, says Wilson John.
Manchester United reached the FA Cup fifth round and avoided any further embarrassment.
On the whole, Kaalo scares you -- but only in bits.
David Silva scored a late goal as runaway leaders Manchester City won their 13th successive Premier League game and restored their eight-point lead with a 2-1 victory against West Ham United on Sunday.
'The vulnerability of the Delhi Metro, with over 125 kms of tracks and 107 stations, 17 of them underground, comes from its easy access, enclosed and restricted space and massive movement of people on any given day.'
Kenyan David Rudisha broke the men's 800 metres world record that had stood for 13 years on Sunday, clocking a time of one minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF athletics meeting in the German capital.
Talking to reporters in Kolhapur, Pawar said it was not right on the part of the Centre to hand over the probe into the case, which was with the Pune police, to the NIA as law and order was a state subject. NCP leader and Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said Uddhav Thackeray had overruled him on the probe in the case.
Over 45 years after Labour leader Harold Wilson first suggested a debate before elections, Britain will witness the first of three live television debates between leaders of the three main parties on Thursday.
A Brazilian Islamist militant was plotting an attack against the French delegation at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the head of a French intelligence agency has said.
'Pakistan has robust incentive to turn heat on LoC.'
The United States says China has an important role to play in South Asia, according to a Hong Kong-based Web site.
Images from Sunday's action in the Premier League.
Rising Indian middle distance runner Tintu Luka shattered the 15-year-old women's 800m national record as she clocked 1:59.17 to finish a creditable fifth in the VTB Bank Continental Cup in Split, Croatia.
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge got the better of compatriot and defending champion Wilson Kipsang in a fierce battle over the closing miles to win the London Marathon by five seconds on Sunday.
Kavi, directed-produced-written by Gregg Helvey, has been nominated in "Short Film" (Live Action) category of 82nd Academy Awards.
Sub-zero temperatures could be a real issue for visitors in Pyeongchang for this month's Winter Olympics, but while Games fans shivered, athletes on Monday welcomed the cold.
Scholars and students have cautioned that the proposed divisive and discriminatory changes would harm the country.
The US president announced the move during his first State of the Union address, reversing his predecessor Barack Obama's decision to close the controversial site "as soon as practicable".
Filmdom's longest running franchise is entering choppy waters.
The American country singer stole the show at the 2015 Elle Style Awards.
An interview with former US assistant secretary of commerce Raymond E Vickery speaks on his book The Eagle And The Elephant: Strategic Aspects Of Us-India Economic Engagement.
US experts believe it is imperative for Obama to "demonstrate that he recognises India's increasingly important role in the broader Asia region, and his interest in building a long-term strategic relationship. He must quell concern that India is a side issue for his administration, which has been consumed by Afghanistan and Pakistan and also heavily emphasising working with China."
The key to the conspiracy hatched by David Headley and Tahawwur Rana may lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Maleeha Lodhi, the former Pakistani Ambassador to the US, has said that both Pakistani government and its people are disappointed that even though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress party returned to power with an enhanced mandate, India has refused to resume the composite dialogue with Pakistan, and instead continues to focus on the terrorism issue.
The Bollywood hottie hobnobbed with the Hollywood heartthrob during an art opening in the US.
After promoting products ranging from jewellery, clothes and apartments, Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal are all set to wear new caps as brand ambassadors for sports in Kerala. While Mammootty has been made brand ambassador of the newly launched Kerala Volleyball League (KVL), Mohanlal has been roped in by the Kerala Athletics Federation to promote athletics.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Minal Gadling, in her petition, claimed that all the arrested five, including her husband, have been in a false and mala fide way implicated in the case even when there was no involvement on their part in any such activity.
A police official said the five arrested are suspected to have Maoist links and had allegedly funded the Elgar Parishad conclave.
India all-rounder Hardik Pandya was reprimanded by the ICC for celebrating aggressively after taking a wicket during the first Twenty20 International against Australia in Adelaide, on Tuesday.
The Oscar winning composer is all set to stage a glittering musical show in Los Angeles.
He also said the Naxals were spreading in urban areas and were trying to mislead the people.
Defending champions Germany saw off a late challenge from New Zealand to score a thumping 5-2 victory and booked a semifinal berth in the Hero Honda Hockey World Cup in New Delhi on Tuesday.
