UN seeks international judges to probe Lankan war crimes

One shocking finding of the investigation was the extent to which sexual violence was committed against detainees, often extremely brutally, by the Sri Lankan security forces, with men as......

The horror of being a woman in Pakistan

The Delhi gangrape case has highlighted how vulnerable women remain in India. But the situation in neighbouring Pakistan isworse, as most cases of sexual assault in that country are hushed up due......

'Afghanistan under attack from Pak's proxy militants'

Vanni Cappelli, an expert on Afghanistan from Poughkeepsie in New York state, is the president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association and a freelance journalist. In an interview to......

'The Lankan government gave the LTTE arms'

S C Chandrahasan is a Sri Lankan Tamil leader and founder of the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation. He is the son of the late Sri Lankan Tamil political leader Samuel Selvanayagam. He......

Sports Shorts: Mourinho slips and falls at Russian ice hockey game

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday IMAGE: Portuguese soccer manager Jose Mourinho falls down, as ice hockey players Evgeny Medvedev and Pavel Datsyuk stand nearby,......

Match-fixing rears its ugly ahead in tennis circuit

Three Italian tennis players caught for match-fixing Italian tennis player Marco Cecchinato has been banned for 18 months and fined 40,000 euros ($44,024) for match-fixing, the Italian tennis......

Ramkumar rallies into Chennai Open quarterfinals

IMAGE: Ramkumar Ramanathan in action during the Chennai Open. Photo: PTI. A gutsy Ramkumar Ramanathan buried a sluggish start to eke out an inspiring win over Alexander Kudryavtsev and enter the......

David Ferrer withdraws from Wimbledon with elbow injury

David Ferrer. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images for LTA Spain's David Ferrer has pulled out of Wimbledon on the eve of the tournament because of an elbow injury, the All England Club said in a......

Chennai Open: Wawrinka advances in doubles; Indians fall by wayside

India's Vijay Sundar Prashanth returns the ball to Jiri Vesely of Czech Republic during their first round match of the Chennai Open at SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday. Photograph: PTI......