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'Congress Sold Election Tickets'

'Three Congress leaders have sold party tickets for crores of rupees.' IMAGE: Congress MLA Afaque Alam. Photograph: M I Khan After being denied a ticket to contest next month's Bihar assembly......

Bihar: INDIA bloc in disarray as nomination deadline nears

Confusion prevailing in the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) showed little signs of let up on Saturday, with just two days to go before the filing of nomination papers for......

Why Educated Muslim Youth Join Terror Modules

Radical Islamist networks are deliberately targeting Muslim youths embedded within the country's professional and academic ecosystems, leveraging their skills, mobility, and digital reach to......

Praised by Obama but beaten by Bihar police

Only last year US President Barack Obama praised 'Sammaan Foundation' founder Irfan Alam for his endeavour to create jobs for unskilled people by manufacturing special rickshaws but he was shocked......

Image: American envoy rides a cycle rickshaw

United States Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer took everyone by surprise in Patna on Friday when he hopped on the rider's seat of a cycle rickshaw while on a visit to a local foundation. Roemer......

Bihar's 'business baazigar' rocks at Obama's summit

If India's queen of herbal beauty products Shahnaz Husain was the most conspicuous at the Presidential Entrepreneurial Summit hosted by President Barack Obama, Irfan Alam, popularly known as the......

Entrepreneur who wanted to gift Obama a rickshaw

Nicknamed 'Business Baazigar', a successful entrepreneur from Bihar is disappointed that he could not gift his innovative 'rickshaw' to US President Barack Obama who invited him to the entrepreneur......

Pakistan's Saud Shakeel timed out after falling asleep!

IMAGE: Saud Shakeel became the first Pakistan batter to be timed out after falling asleep and then reaching the crease beyond the stipulated three-minute time limit. Photograph: Andrew......

Maqsood, Alam stand tall as Pakistan win tense chase

Sohaib Maqsood and Fawad Alam struck quick-fire fifties and combined in a record 147-run sixth wicket stand as Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by four wickets with one ball remaining in the first......

Afridi issued show cause notice for featuring in commercial

Seasoned Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi has been issued a show cause notice, among five other international players from Pakistan, by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for featuring in a......

Hostile reception for Pakistan team

IMAGE: Pakistan's captain Shahid Afridi and other team-mates. Photograph: PTI Photos.. The Pakistan cricket team, sans captain Shahid Afridi, returned to a hostile reception in Lahore and Karachi......

Perera helps Sri Lanka rout Pakistan to clinch ODI series

Sri Lanka's Thisara Perera (right) appeals successfully for the wicket of Pakistan's Wahab Riaz during their final ODI (One Day International) in Dambulla on Saturday. Photograph: Dinuka......