Three-times Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has called on International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid to quit in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
A refreshed Nathan Lyon is expected to pose a serious threat to India later this summer, but the bowler himself is not certain about the resumption of cricket disrupted by the pandemic.
Two-time Wimbledon champion and world number 11 Petra Kvitova was attacked in her home on Tuesday and is receiving medical attention.
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo started in central defence and was marked by early shyness before an explosion of attacking flair made him one of soccer's greatest players.
Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped at dawn on Thursday by armed rebels and taken to an unknown location, the government said.
In a letter to Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam thanked her for proposing his name for the President's post and for the "grateful politics". Banerjee posted his letter on her Facebook page, along with her reply. Here's what she said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that her government was willing to provide 'full relief' to common people and farmers hit by the increase in diesel price and restriction on subsidised LPG, if the Centre allowed the state to collect taxes taken away by it.
Sachin Tendulkar on Monday joined social networking site Facebook getting overwhelming response from his fans as he got more than 400,000 'likes' within hours of his first post.
'I simply cannot believe that Sushant has taken such a step. He was such a lively boy who inspired others through his zest for life.'
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However, Adani Australia has clarified on its Facebook page on Monday that in terms of quality of the coal it is almost 50 per cent better than that used domestically.
Competition records show that Russian amateur boxers Islam Dashaev and Alena Tokarchuk fought in official tournaments last year despite bans announced by Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which is forbidden under international anti-doping rules.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawah has stepped up its use of the internet and social media, including Twitter and Facebook, to raise funds for its activities and to spread propaganda aimed at fomenting unrest in India.
Facebook is the top social network in India.
Select games will also be streamed live on the MyCricket Facebook page to a global audience, including one of the semi-finals and the grand final on Monday, June 8.
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Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn will miss next month's Sochi Games after failing to recover from a knee injury.
A Zimbabwean businessman, who is also the chairman of the St Joseph's House for Boys in Harare from where Peter Roebuck adopted many young men, has decided to launch his own investigation into the deceased cricket writer's association with the organisation.
The page by the Delhi division on the social networking site has become very popular since its launch in April.
A Stanford professor spearheads an innovative campaign for bone marrow donations, discovers Arthur J Pais.
Richards also feels that batters need to prepare themselves for these conditions rather than complaining about the spinning conditions.
Rohit Sharma had to return home mid-way through the New Zealand tour after sustaining the calf injury during the T20 series on February 2.
The searches were a continuation of those conducted here and in Kerala in connection with an Islamic State terror module.
The EC said the decision was taken as it was not satisfied with their respective replies to the show-cause notices. During an election rally in New Delhi, Thakur egged on the crowd to raise an incendiary slogan -- 'shoot the traitors' -- after he lashed out at anti-CAA protesters.
Seven-times Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander was rushed to hospital in Melbourne after suffering a fall in his apartment at the weekend.
Murray pulled out of the Australian Open on Thursday having failed to recover from the hip injury that had dogged him since the summer of 2017, following his quarter-final exit at Wimbledon in July.
The prime minister noted that there may not have been any major public events in countries around the world and in India for around a year-and-a-half, but the enthusiasm for Yoga Day has not diminished.
Roger Federer has pulled out of the Rio Olympics and said he will miss the rest of the season as he needs "more extensive rehabilitation" following knee surgery earlier this year if he wants to prolong his career.
Two men who tried to incite a riot on Facebook have been handed the longest jail terms so far by courts dealing with last week's rioting in Britain. Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, were both sentenced to four years despite neither of the destructive events the men attempted to organise actually happening. The pair appeared at Chester Crown Court after police discovered Facebook pages created by the men that urged rioting in their home Blackshaw, o
'We are trying to empower teachers in the entire country because online teaching is very, very, complicated.'
An examination of some user profiles linked to these banned outfits indicates open support of sectarian and extremist ideology. A few of these profiles have also publicly 'liked' pages and groups related to weapons use and training.
Director Aashiq Abu's Idukki Gold's movie poster has created a lot of controversy as it shows Lord Shiva and Che Guevera smoking.
This will be Modi's second US visit after he was elected PM.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's 19-year-old son has posted obscene comments about Arabs and Muslims on his Facebook page, an Israeli paper has reported. Earlier this year, Yair Netanyahu, the eldest of the prime minister's two sons, who is currently a soldier in the Israeli military's media liaison unit, posted that Muslims ''celebrate hate and death,'' he Daily Mail quoted a news report by the Haaretz daily, as saying.
A post in Humans of Bombay's Facebook page from a manager of a bank will give you an insight of what the bankers are going through and will urge you to cooperate with them.
Chari, 43, will serve as the commander while NASA's Tom Marshburn will be pilot and ESA's Matthias Maurer will serve as a mission specialist for the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the ISS, which is expected to launched next year.
We present to you an excerpt from Poor Little Rich Slum: What We Saw in Dharavi and Why It Matters by Rashmi Bansal and Deepak Gandhi.
Onlookers filmed the episode, which was also shared by Dubey on his Facebook page. However, he later deleted it.
The 66-year-old finance minister underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery in mid-May and was on leave since April due to kidney-related problems and chest infection.
Ambassador of India to the UAE Pavan Kapoor quoted a tweet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said that COVID-19 does not see race, religion, colour, caste, creed, language or borders before striking.
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