'You can take a bit of off-time from cricket, mentally as well as physically.'
South African cricketer Mark Boucher has said that the game's modern anti-corruption methods are a joke, offering a rare insight into the shady world of cricket's most notorious match-fixer, Hansie Cronje.
The director tells us why it took so long to direct his second film and his equation with rumoured ex-beau Sonam Kapoor.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
Besides criticising CM Arvind Kejriwal on scores of issues, Shah alleged the AAP government made only promises throughout its tenure and now in the last three months, public money was being spent on advertisements for its announcements.
"Desh ke chowikdar ki pehredari mein, sansadhono ki chori karai ja rahi hai (the country's resources are being looted under the watch of the country's gateman)," she said in a derisive reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Liverpool were beaten 1-0 away to Atletico Madrid in their last-16 first leg on Tuesday.
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A Maharashtra MLC lost his cool and heckled Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly delaying his departure to the coastal town of Alibaug in neighbouring Raigad district.
Members in the Lok Sabha on Monday voiced concern over intrusion by Chinese troops in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, with the crucial United Progressive Alliance ally Samajwadi Party objecting to the upcoming visit of External Minister Salman Khurshid to Beijing.
Paras Chhabra, who has come from Splitsvilla, is still living in that zone and has already found two heroines. Shefali Bagga shows that she is in love with Siddhartha De, which is nonsense. It looks planned but works in her favour. Mahira Sharma is not fake. She is very clear that she does not want anything in terms of relationships but genuinely counts Paras as a friend.'
He also accused US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being very rigid and doing bad politics.
Funny how a woman can fall in love with another woman and still need a man to ensure she gets her happy ending, notes Sukanya Verma.
The decision not to impose a blanket ban was not uniformly welcomed with Travis Tygart, head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, describing it as "yet another devastating blow to clean athletes."
'A very vast majority of us will catch it at some point, about 8 out of 10 won't feel much worse than a common cold's nuisance, if at all, but some will die.' 'A very, very vast majority, at least about 98 per cent of those infected, if not more, under any circumstances, will live through it,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
While knowing the limits of his body and full of praise for his team for being able to patch him up repeatedly, the 37-year-old admitted fortune has played a part in his longevity.
Pakistan's plan to execute 500 militants who have been given death sentences is deeply disturbing and would do nothing to protect civilians from the conflict with Taliban, a leading rights group has said.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday observed that Pakistani TV channels were "spreading vulgarity" and sought a record of all programmes against the judiciary as the Supreme Court heard an application against obscenity on television.
Shikhar Dhawan's childhood coach Tarak Sinha tells Rediff.com's Manu Shankar, his ward's good form and consistent performances at the domestic level helped him score a ton on debut in Mohali on Saturday.
'My parents have been teaching me that if I see something wrong happening, I need to take a stand and fight for the truth.' 'That's what I plan on continuing to do with my music.'
A Syrian amputee swimmer ran with the Olympic flame through a refugee camp in Athens on Tuesday to highlight the plight of the million people who fled their homes for Europe since last year.
'Many said his visit was very risky. But mercifully, Air Force One has taken off from Delhi without Mr Trump stepping on anybody's toes,' notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
'The situation in Doklam has plateaued; militarily, the Chinese know they can do nothing here,' an Indian general tells Ajai Shukla.
The Nobel Prize committee has given up trying to reach musician Bob Dylan, days after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Raipur's Nami Rai didn't let marriage or lack of sporting facilities affect her love for fitness.
'I am learning good things and trying to avoid the bad. I am moving ahead with a positive attitude. That is my biggest achievement.'
'Sreesanth creates unnecessary drama.' 'I request viewers to help him get out of the house.'
Australian spin legend Shane Warne's charitable foundation is under the scanner of a consumer watchdog in Melbourne but the flamboyant former cricketer has insisted that the furore is a "malicious campaign" and he has "absolutely nothing to hide".
'Salmanbhai would be really worried if his fans and the people who pay money to watch his film were not happy.'
"I feel like I'm more... I wouldn't say confident but I'm more, like, I have inner peace. I don't know. Like zen. I don't really want to use words I don't know.'
Javed Miandad has said that the recent ICC U-19 World Cup match between India and Pakistan had highlighted the huge gulf in talent between cricketers of both the countries.
The bill, however, has to be passed by the Senate, wherein the Republicans enjoy a majority, before it can be signed into law by the US President Donald Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko who died in a London hospital in November 2006 from radioactive poisoning, a British public inquiry concluded on Thursday.
'The way we are playing now, if we continue to play the same hockey, no one can stop us from standing on the podium in Tokyo.'
A team of 90 expert divers -- 40 from Thailand and 50 from overseas -- has been working in the cave system. They have been guiding the boys through darkness and submerged passageways towards the mouth of the Tham Luang cave system.
'When Rajkumar Hirani offered me the film, I was probably in the worst phase of my life.'
The Delhi CM wrote to Modi on the fourth day of the sit-in he and his ministers are holding at Baijal's office, demanding that the L-G direct the IAS officers to end their "strike" and act against those who have struck work.
Olympic bronze-medallist and five-time world champion M C Mary Kom on Sunday denied reports that she made disparaging remarks against fellow male boxers like Shiva Thapa and Manoj Kumar during a meeting of the national observers in New Delhi.
'It's up to the audience to decide if I am the lead or not. I want to stay away from these conversations because it demotivates the actors, when they get stuck in this game of lead, second lead or supporting cast.'
It is PM who is creating such environment, he said.
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