The BCCI, which is looking to fill its coffers at every opportunity, didn't feel the need to consider the elements before agreeing to play in Bangladesh during its monsoons.
With thaw in bilateral relations, India and Pakistan decided this year to reopen their consulates in Karachi and Mumbai, respectively.
Inspector General Police of Karachi, Asad Jehangir confirmed two deaths.
Bangladesh's private GMG Airlines on Wednesday launched its thrice-weekly flights between Kolkata and the southeastern port city of Chittagong, to become the first private operator to go international, airline officials said.
After being pounded for an entire day by Cyclone Hudhud, the storm is weakened on Monday leaving behind a trail of destruction in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
"I will not play for Nantes again," the former France goalkeeper told French radio France Info.
Fabien Barthez's flamboyant career has almost certainly ended with a controversial exit from Nantes.
"We must show the world that this is an emerging, progressive and dynamic country and we are second to none," Musharraf said.
England have expressed safety concerns about playing in Karachi on the tour which starts in October.
Indore is set to host its first-ever Test during the three-match series against New Zealand in September-October as India's top cricketers, in a unique way, on Tuesday, announced the full schedule of the tour that will kick start the team's home season.
In their first ever 'standalone' trilateral meeting, foreign ministers of India, Russia and China will hold talks in Russia's far-eastern port city of Vladivostok next week on a whole spectrum of issues.
17 MLAs of the TDP were suspended from the assembly for disrupting CM Jagan Mohan Reddy's address on the Andhra Pradesh Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Bill, 2020.
Bangladesh's GMG Airlines plans to introduce daily flights to Kolkata, airline officials said on Tuesday.
Fifteen of these groups took part in sectarian violence, while the rest are jehadi outfits fighting against Western interests, the Daily Times quoted officials as saying.
The third One-Day International between India and the West Indies, scheduled in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday, has been called off after the cyclone 'Hudhud' hit the port city, disrupting normal life and leaving the ACA-VDCA cricket stadium in completely unplayable condition.
The sea phase of SIMBEX-06, the joint Indo-Singapore naval exercises began with the ships of the two navies sailing out of Visakhapatnam early Friday morning.
Batsman Faisal Iqbal and pace bowler Umar Gul were included in the 16-man squad for the final Test against India, starting on Sunday.
Karachi has long been a volatile city with a spate of militant violence since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
At least four Cambodians, including two children, died after eating the meat from a giant turtle. Dozens were hospitalised.
The city is under lock down men in balaclavas fired towards officers.
The fleet landed at Al Dhafra airbase on Monday in the United Arab Emirates after flying for over seven hours from the Merignac airbase. It was the only stopover by the jets while flying from France to India.
The ISNA students' news agency reported the plane smashed into a 10-story building and burst into flames.
Maradona, 44, is deciding whether to have surgery in the picturesque port city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
England's tour of Pakistan from October 25 has been finalised with one match in Karachi, on December 15.
England have rejected a proposal by Pakistan to play an additional one-day international in Karchi
In yet another brazen attack on a Pakistani airport, heavily-armed militants on Sunday stormed an aerodrome and destroyed its radar system, killing two engineers in the restive Balochistan province.
Uncapped pace bowler Nazmul Hossain has been added to the Bangladesh squad for the second and final Test against India, starting on Friday in the port city of Chittagong.
Police said there is no terrorism element in the incident.
The ECB expressed reservations about playing a Test match in Karachi, which has been the target of several bomb attacks.
Karachi, where India refused to play a Test last year, has been listed for an ODI and Test in the 2006 series.
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