Rangana Herath grabbed Zimbabwe's final three wickets to return figures of 8-63 as Sri Lanka wasted little time in finishing off the hosts on the final morning of the second test at the Harare Sports Club on Thursday. The home side, teetering on 180 for seven overnight, survived 13 overs before being bowled out for 233 as Sri Lanka won by 257 runs to compete a sweep of the two-match series. Herath, standing in as captain for the injury-hit Sri Lankan side, finished with 13 wickets in the match as he fully exploited a turning surface to dominate the test with his spin.
In the first high-level contact with Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon met his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in Colombo on Thursday and rejected his suggestion for resumption of Composite Dialogue till Islamabad took credible steps to end terrorism.
While the fashion on the ramp at LFW was a mixed bag, there were some off-ramp style that got our thumbs up. We take a look...
In the wake of 26/11 terror attacks, Mumbai's party crowd is staying in this New Year's Eve. Find out way.
The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday criticised the increase in airport development charges imposed by Mumbai and New Delhi, saying the burden on the already beleaguered global airline industry is a 'wake up call' for the Indian government.
Amid India's suspicions of the involvement of the Inter Services Intelligence in the planning of Mumbai terror strikes, the chief of the Pakistani spy agency on Friday called on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad.The Director General of the ISI, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, met Gilani and briefed him on the prevailing security situation, an official statement said.No further details about the meeting were available.
The luxury train with 23 AC coaches will start its seven-day and six-night maiden journey, carrying 88 tourists to Delhi, covering Vadodara, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaipur, Ranthambore and Agra on the way from CST station on January 9.
DAE officials, who had marathon discussions for the last two days in Mumbai on the issue of safeguards to be discussed with the IAEA, received confirmation of an appointment with ElBaradei on Sunday night to initiate negotiations, the DAE sources said.
With Sachin Tendulkar set to play all matches in the second edition of the Indian Premier League, Delhi Daredevils vice-president (cricket) T A Sekar tipped Mumbai Indians to reach the May 24 final.
The Ambani brothers are once again going to clash over Mumbai's infrastructure as the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority has decided to call financial bids for the Rs 12,000-crore (Rs 120 billion) second corridor of Mumbai Metro connecting Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra from short-listed consortiums.
The swine flu death toll in the country has risen to 10 with the death of a seven-year-old girl in Vadodara. Earlier, a woman in Maharashtra succumbed to the dreaded virus.
In Budget 2009, the defence services have been allocated Rs 1,41,703 crore (Rs 1,417.03 billion) for 2009-10, a 34 per cent hike from 2008-09 budgetary allocation of Rs 1,05,600 crore (Rs 1,056 billion).
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist, who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force with road maps of major Mumbai landmarks in February last, was returned by the Maharashtra police to Uttar Pradesh, where he continues to be lodged in jail. Mumbai cops, who then saw nothing incriminating about 26-year-old Fahim Ansari possessing road maps leading to key landmarks in India's financial capital, and a fake identity, are now on their way to UP to interrogate him.
A Russian woman has been killed and another woman passenger injured when armed robbers opened fire in the 1073 UP Kamrani Express train near Rewa in Madhya Pradesh.
The allotment is expected to attract investments of $1.5 billion, around 57 per cent less than the $3.5 billion commitment for the 52 blocks awarded under the previous auction. ONGC and its partners bagged the maximum number of 20 blocks in the seventh round, which closed on June 30. Australian mining major BHP Billiton and its partner GVK Power, bidding for the first time, won seven deepwater blocks.
The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, to be run on January 20 next year, would be held under the banner of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The Working Committee also ratified the appointment of Gary Kirsten as India coach and Dav Whatmore as the NCA head.
Imran Nazir's brilliant batting coupled with disciplined bowing by Mushtaq Ahmed helped Lahore Badshahs thrash Delhi Giants by eight wickets in the ICL Twenty20 match in Gurgaon on Sunday night. Chasing, 105 to win, Badshahs overhauled the target with 31 balls to spare, as Nazir hit an unbeaten 60 off 47-balls.
Mumbai Indians beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets on Wednesday to score their third straight win in the Indian Premier League.
In the first part of an exclusive interview, Sreenivasan spoke about how the film Kadha Parayumbol was born. In the second part, he speaks about how Rajnikanth reacted to the film.
In Mumbai, where the Shiv Sena-BJP combine pulled out all stops to retain power in India's richest civic body, the voting percentage was better than that in the last polls.
Vivek Pehlajani discusses how he went from college dud to media dude despite having left off studying halfway.
All the banks in the country will go on a one-day strike on February 23 to show their solidarity towards employees of the Central Bank who have planned an indefinite strike from February 22.
The proud owners Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya were ecstatic after the Jaipur Pink Panthers won the inaugural Pro-Kabaddi title.
The hugely popular show, characterised by Bachchan's baritone and personality, was in its second season when it had to be cut short due to the star's sudden illness.
The court dismissed Pravin's plea of mental instability.
The joint secretary also said a high-level task force to work on frontiers of science related to vaccines and drug testing was formed on Sunday.
Jihadi groups and organised crime tactics: Report
The younger brother of Subhash Gupte died in Mumbai on Tuesday after a prolonged illness.
Maharashtra bowled out Mumbai for 160 in their second innings to win the Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group 'A' match by 65 runs.
Indian Oil Corporation on Thursday said its under-recoveries would come down by Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) in the next six months on account of the price hike in the petroleum products.
Kingfisher Airlines has introduced a daily service between Delhi-Srinagar and Mumbai-Srinagar.
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