Defying all odds, the second edition of the cash-awash Indian Premier League, a heady cocktail of cricket and entertainment, gets underway in its adopted home with a mouth-watering double header in Cape Town on Friday... more »

Ad-makers ask Hrithik to shed weight.. more »

"This award only proves the fact that if there is sincere effort put forth by an individual, the results will always show, if not immediately but in a while for sure. This award has made me more confident of focusing all my energies towards one goal - many more golds for India," Bindra said on receiving the award. The Chandigarh .. more »

Skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and sent South Africa in to bat on Monday in the fourth ODI as Australia chased a win to level the five-match series... more »

Michael Holding to Geoff Boycott, 1981 This might have been the fastest over ever delivered in the history of cricket: few who were there to witness the occasion would doubt it. Holding was there to destroy Boycott and it took just the one over. I doubt if Boycott saw a single ball. When Holding finally hit his target, the crowd, fired up by the .. more »

England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff insisted on Sunday his lucrative involvement in the Indian Premier League will not eat away at his powers as a potential Ashes winner. Flintoff, signed for 1.5 million dollars by the Chennai Super Kings franchise for the IPL which gets underway in South Africa on Saturday, has been dogged by injuries recently. .. more »

Continuing his attack on the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre, BJP leader L K Advani on Sunday said the UPA rule had "no achievement" to claim compared to the NDA's performance under A B Vajpayee... more »

Hitting back at senior BJP leader Narendra Modi for calling Congress a "budiya", Union Minister of state for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal on Sunday rebuked the saffron party for passing such comments saying it has put up an 80-year-old as a prime ministerial candidate... more »

At half-time India were leading 2-1. India scored their third goal lead in the second half to win the fourth title for India after 13 years... more »

English League ChampionshipWolverhampton Wanderers v Southampton >> 15:15 UK Reading v Sheffield United >> 17:30 UK Portuguese LigaBraga v Maritimo >> 18:00 UK Paços de Ferreira v Guimaraes >> 20:30 UKDutch Eredivisie: NAC Breda v AZ Alkmaar >> 19:45 UKRussian Premier League: PFK Samara Kryliya Sovetov v FC .. more »

Shiv Sena legislator Bala Nandgaonkar resigned as member of the Maharashtra legislative Assembly on Wednesday, to contest as a nominee of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena... more »

Dwayne Bravo's surgically-repaired ankle has been deemed too fragile for West Indies' Test series in England, but strong enough to withstand the rigours of Twenty20 cricket.. more »

Don’t allow any action which will result in injustice: Court.. more »

India's charismatic captain MS Dhoni would only get better with experience, predicted former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming. .. more »

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's election rally in Assam's Dibrugarh district was on Tuesday cancelled because of torrential rain following which he returned to Delhi.The SPG accompanying the prime minister did not think it was safe for Singh to fly to the venue by helicopter from the airport in the heavy rain, Assam Power minister Pradyut Bordoloi .. more »